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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 ...
The Fatah–Hamas conflict ( Arabic: النزاع بين فتح وحماس, romanized : an-Nizāʿ bayna Fataḥ wa-Ḥamās) is an ongoing political and strategic conflict between Fatah and Hamas, [ a] the two main Palestinian political parties in the Palestinian territories, leading to the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.
Lebanon's Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the border since its Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza and Israel went to war on Oct. 7. The violence on the frontier between ...
Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, [46] and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016. [47] Hezbollah was established by Lebanese clerics primarily to fight the 1982 Israeli invasion of ...
UN OCHA casualties summary, as of 19 June 2024. As of 9 August 2024, over 41,000 people (39,677 Palestinian [ 1] and 1,478 Israeli [ 13]) have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 113 journalists (108 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) [ 14] and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, including 179 employees of UNRWA.
A Shia resistance movement with ties to Iran. Formed in the early 1980s as Lebanon was wracked by a civil war, Hezbollah, sometimes spelled Hizballah or Hezbullah, is a Shia political party and ...
According to Israeli author Ehud Yaari, Hezbollah's presence and strategy in Lebanon is a model for Hamas in terms of military, political, and media operations. [27] The two groups share common tactics and common goals. [28] According to Israeli military analysts, Hezbollah has assisted Hamas in producing "[more] lethal bombs."
Hezbollah, which like Hamas is supported by Iran, has so far been on the fence about joining the fighting between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Islamic militant rulers.