its jets deliberately destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers throughout southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah has disputed that its plans were disrupted and claimed that it responded to the killing of a prominent leader last month by firing hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel.
After ten months of almost daily gunfire across the Israel-Lebanon border, which stoked concerns of an all-out conflict between the two enemies, there was a notable uptick in hostilities.
What does Hezbollah stand for?
Hezbollah is a powerful Shia Muslim organization that commands Lebanon’s strongest military force and has significant political clout.
Iran, the most powerful Shia nation in the area, founded it in the early 1980s in opposition to Israel. During Lebanon’s civil war, Israel’s army had taken control of southern Lebanon at the time.
Since its participation in the 1992 national elections, Hezbollah has grown to be a significant political force.
Its armed branch has attacked US and Israeli forces in Lebanon with terrible results. Hezbollah claimed credit for driving Israeli forces out of Lebanon in 2000, the year of their withdrawal.
