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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 26, 2023 | SaltWireBEIRUT - With an economy in ruins and a crumbling state, Lebanon can ill afford another war between Hezbollah and Israel.
But with Israel warning Hezbollah it would wreak"devastation" upon Lebanon were the group to open the front, the costs of any war loom large in a country already suffering one of the most destabilising phases since its 1975-90 civil war. Hezbollah's clashes with Israeli forces at the border have been calibrated to avoid major escalation so far, sources say, though more than 40 of its fighters have been killed.
One of Hezbollah's closest allies, the Christian politician Suleiman Frangieh, said on Wednesday the group did not want war. If it had, Hezbollah fighters would have stormed Israel on Oct. 7 as Hamas did from Gaza, he said."We're telling them that instead of telling us to restrain Hezbollah, they need to put pressure on the Israelis not to escalate," he said.
The state is barely functioning, while factional squabbling has left it without a president and a fully empowered government.
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