Israel launches deadly airstrikes on Hezbollah targets
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When Israeli strikes hit Iran on June 13, it wasn’t only nuclear sites and senior Iranian commanders that were taken out: A covert army of bots meddling in British politics went dark, too.
Hezbollah refrained from entering the war between Israel and Iran on Iran's side due to a lack of religious directive, expert Tal Beeri said. Beeri is the head of the Research Department at the Alma Center for the Study of Security Challenges in the North.
According to reports from Jerusalem Post, even though the force has lost several top leaders, the group is quickly working to rebuild its strength.
Arms have been central to Hezbollah's doctrine since it was founded by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to fight Israeli forces who invaded Lebanon in 1982, at the height of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war. Tensions over the Shi'ite Muslim group's arsenal sparked another, brief civil conflict in 2008.
An Israeli airstrike on June 15 targeted a high-level security meeting in Tehran, injuring Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
In 1978, Israel invaded Lebanon to push Palestinian fighters away from its northern borders and put an end to rockets launched from south Lebanon. This fighting included the massacre of many civilians and the displacement of many Lebanese and Palestinians farther north.
Though the ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been holding, 'The war remains an unfinished project, for both sides,' one Middle East expert warns.
Internal paralysis, deeply entrenched feelings of ethnic identity and a political system rooted in sectarianism render normalization almost unthinkable.The post Why Lebanon won’t make peace with Israe