Israel and Lebanon have avoided war across the Lebanese-Israeli frontier since their last major clash 17 years ago
Hezbollah members take part in a military exercise during a media tour organised for the occasion of Resistance and Liberation Day, in Aaramta, Lebanon, May 21 2023. Picture: REUTERS/AZIZ TAHER.
The tensions come against the backdrop of a political crisis in Israel that has emboldened its enemies. Hezbollah, relishing the sight of some reservists refusing to serve, says Israel is now weaker. Israel says its foes are overestimating the effect. Tensions have also simmered over a tent pitched by Hezbollah on land which UN peacekeepers say is on the Israeli side of the Blue Line — a UN-mapped frontier marking the line to which Israeli forces withdrew when they left south Lebanon in 2000.
Israel sees Hezbollah, founded by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in 1982, as the biggest threat at its borders. The 2006 war killed 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 157 Israelis, mostly soldiers.In a speech marking the conflict's anniversary, Hezbollah cleric Hassan al-Baghdadi said its weaponry had stopped Israel from waging war. But Israel, he said, was in “dire need” of a war to forge unity because of its crisis.
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