Inside Hezbollah: fighting and dying for a confused cause
Channel 4 News heads to Lebanon to meet Hezbollah in its heartland, and finds the group fighting a war that has dramatically departed from its original aim: resistance to Israel.
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We’re joined by Foad Izadi, professor of world studies at University of Tehran.
One of the most well established, largest and best armed of the Iran-backed militias is Hezbollah which operates in Lebanon.
On Israel’s border with Lebanon there was an escalation in exchanges of fire with Hezbollah, increasing tensions in the region .
A key member of Israel’s war cabinet has warned the country could intensify military action along the border with Lebanon, if Hezbollah attacks on Israeli territory continue.
We spoke to Sir Mark Lyall Grant – a former senior British diplomat who was previously the United Kingdom’s National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
Daniel Levy is President of the US/Middle East Project and a former peace negotiator who worked with previous Israeli prime ministers.
Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani joins live from Ashdod, just north of Gaza.
A United Nations-backed tribunal has convicted one member of the Hezbollah militant group of planning the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri, 15 years ago.
We’re joined by Nadim Gemayel, a former member of the Lebanese Parliament for the Kataeb Party, who submitted his official resignation earlier today. He is the son of former Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel, who was assassinated in 1982.
There’s been an exchange of fire on the border between Israel and Lebanon. The Israeli military fired into Southern Lebanon, after Hezbollah launched missiles at Israeli tanks.
Chris Wilson is a conservative pollster and strategist who was the director of research and analytics for Senator Ted Cruz’s Presidential campaign.
A day of bloodshed on Israel’s border with Lebanon and Syria leaves two Israeli soldiers and one UN peacekeeper dead and raises fears of a conflict between the IDF and Hezbollah.
Hezbollah supporters turned out in force in Lebanon for the funerals of militants killed in a suspected Israeli drone strike.
After the killings of three Israeli teenagers, Binyamin Netanyahu says “Hamas will pay”, while Hamas says an attack by Israel “will open the gates of hell”. So what happens next?
Channel 4 News heads to Lebanon to meet Hezbollah in its heartland, and finds the group fighting a war that has dramatically departed from its original aim: resistance to Israel.