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Hezbollah is known to be involved in the Cocaine trade, [40] and the Hashish trade. [41] Hezbollah uses the drug trade as well as other "criminal enterprises" to fund its military excursions in Lebanon, [42] [43] while some of their funds go to education and health assistance for the poor. [44]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The group campaigned against a judge investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion, which devastated swathes of the capital, after he sought to question Hezbollah's allies. The standoff prompted ...
On January 7, 2016, the United States imposed sanctions on Charara and Spectrum Investment Group for their alleged involvement in financing Hezbollah. The U.S. Treasury designated Charara as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) under Executive Order 13224, which allows for the freezing of any assets held under U.S. jurisdiction and ...
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 ...
The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014 would state that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) prevent Hezbollah's global logistics and financial network from operating in order to curtail funding of its domestic and international activities; and (2) utilize diplomatic, legislative, and executive avenues to combat Hezbollah's ...