Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran and Hezbollah not to “test us” in the north, after the Lebanese militant group said it had started destroying CCTV cameras on several Israeli army posts along the border.
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Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets into Israel during the conflict, in which 1,200 people were killed in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 158 Israelis were killed, most of them soldiers. Hezbollah said it was in “direct contact with the leadership of the Palestinian resistance” on Oct. 7, the day Hamas militants carried out an unprecedented assault from Gaza into Israel, killing 1,300 people. In Israel’s intensive air strikes on Gaza in response, more than 2,750 people have been killed.
Lebanese parties opposed to Hezbollah say the group has undermined the state and accuse it of unilaterally dragging Lebanon into armed conflicts.It entered Lebanese politics more prominently in 2005 after Syria withdrew forces from Lebanon following the killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, who symbolised Saudi influence in the country.Israeli soldiers patrol in armoured personnel carriers at an undisclosed position in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on October 15, 2023.
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 deadly clashes in Beirut in 2021.Lebanese security officials and Western intelligence have said groups that were linked to Hezbollah carried out suicide attacks on Western embassies and targets and kidnapped Westerners in the 1980s.
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