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The Netherlands regards Hezbollah as terrorist discussing it as such in official reports of their general intelligence and security service [476] and in official answers by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [477] On 22 July 2013, the European Union declared the military wings of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization; effectively blacklisting the ...
While acknowledging that "Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics," [20] he says that it is unhelpful to call it a terrorist organization; the United States and the international community, in his view, would do well to respect it as a legitimate political party. On the other end of the spectrum, there are some in the United Nations who deny that ...
In 2021, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the group had 100,000 fighters. Iran gives Hezbollah weapons and money. The United States estimates Iran has allocated it hundreds of ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hezbollah training exercise in Aaramta, Jezzine, southern Lebanon, May 2023 Part of a series on Hezbollah Ideology History Flag Foreign relations Funding Headquarters Political activities Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc 2008 conflict in Lebanon 2006–2008 Lebanese political protests Doha Agreement ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israel across the border for days in the deadliest escalation since they fought a major war in 2006, threatening to expand a conflict between ...
Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Islamist movement with one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East. The group, which has its main base on the Israel-Lebanon border, could become a ...
Hezbollah declared its existence on 16 February 1985 in "The Hizballah Program". This document [6] was read by spokesman Sheikh Ibrahim al-Amin at the al-Ouzai Mosque in west Beirut and simultaneously published in al-Safir as "The Hizballah Program, an open letter to all the Oppressed in Lebanon and the World", and a separate pamphlet that was first published in full in English in 1987.
Tensions simmered for the next six years until war broke out again on July 12, 2006, after Hezbollah fighters crossed into Israel and ambushed a group of soldiers, killing three of them and taking ...