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Officially listed by Washington as a \u201cterrorist\u201d organization, Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, a Shiite political party with a paramilitary wing armed in part by Iran, is regarded as a national security threat to both Israel and the U.S. Yet according to the Council on Foreign Relations, Hezbollah is known locally for operating a \u201cvast network of social services<\/a>” including health-care facilities, schools, youth programs and infrastructure benefiting \u201cShiite and non-Shiite Lebanese alike.\u201d<\/p>\n Hezbollah militias, of course, supported Hamas after Oct 7 by launching missiles into northern Israel to counter Israel\u2019s US-backed genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza. In response, Israel launched air and ground operations against Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in Sept-Oct 2024, when it also conducted exploding \u2018pager\u2019 attacks against Hezbollah civilians and assassinated Hezbollah\u2019s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, along with several deputy commanders.<\/p>\n A ceasefire, imposed in Nov 2024, was fully honored by Hezbollah \u2013 but not by Israel. Only in Feb 2026 did Hezbollah resume militancy when it joined Iran in countering the US and Israeli-initiated aggression. Israel, in turn, escalated its air and ground invasions across south Lebanon and at sites further north, demolishing villages and displacing one million. On April 8, Israel launched an especially savage bombing campaign also targeting Beirut, causing massive casualties. Is Hezbollah finally being neutralized?<\/em><\/p>\n –1) Chris Hedges with Laith Marouf: <\/strong>The<\/strong> \u201cend” of Western hegemony? <\/strong>A Sunni Muslim of Palestinian and Syrian heritage and founder of Free Palestine TV<\/a> based in Lebanon, Marouf has broad knowledge of \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d fighters throughout the region, including Hezbollah and its history of defending Lebanon from US-backed Zionist aggression.<\/p>\n https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2026\/04\/21\/hedges-report-lebanons-defiance\/<\/a><\/p>\n –30m (with transcript)<\/p>\n –2) Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada tracks Hezbollah\u2019s \u201cexistential\u201d battles<\/strong> against the IDF. Here he features Hezbollah-supplied footage showing fighters using drones todestroy Israeli tanks while also launching ‘makeshift’ rockets aimed at sites in Israel.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hY25JlG7EY8<\/a><\/p>\n –3) SHORT ARTICLE: Robert Inlakesh on U.S. backing of an Israel-friendly, \u2018puppet\u2019 government<\/strong> (and army) in Lebanon<\/strong>, bringing Joseph Aoun (president) and Nawaf Salam (prime minister) to power, both committed to \u201cdisarming\u201d Hezbollah \u2013 and potentially igniting \u201ccivil war.\u201d So far, however, Lebanon\u2019s army chief is refusing to bend to the puppet masters.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/failing-to-destroy-hezbollah-israel-seeks-to-spark-a-lebanese-civil-war\/290741\/<\/a><\/p>\n –4) LONG ARTICLE: Kit Klarenberg, \u2018Collapsing Empire: Hezbollah crushes \u2018Greater Israel\u2019<\/strong> on Israel\u2019s long-standing goal to annex <\/em><\/strong>southern Lebanon (confirmed by U.S. Intelligence in the 1980s) and Hezbollah\u2019s role in thwarting that goal. He also reports on the failure of Syria\u2019s new president Ahmed al-Sharaa (a former Al Qaeda terrorist) to take on Hezbollah at Syria\u2019s western border, disappointing the British MI6 handlers who \u201cinstalled\u201d him in power. (Syria’s ousted president, Bashar al-Assad, allied with Hezbollah.)<\/p>\n