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    Hezbollah (/ ˌ h ɛ z b ə ˈ l ɑː /, / ˌ x ɛ z-/; Arabic: حزب الله, romanized: Ḥizbu 'llāh, lit. ' Party of Allah ' or ' Party of God ') is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.

  2. Hezbollah originated within the Shiite block of Lebanese society. According to the CIA World Factbook estimate in 2022, Shiites comprise 31.2 percent of Lebanon's population, predominating in three areas of Lebanon: Southern Lebanon, Beirut and its environs , and the northern Beqaa valley region.

  3. 1 day ago · Hezbollah, political party and militant group that first emerged during Lebanon’s civil war as a militia after the Israeli invasion of that country in 1982. Since the 2000s it has been one of the foremost political forces in Lebanon.

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  4. On 8 October 2023, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, taking advantage of the Israel–Hamas war, fired guided rockets and artillery shells at Israeli positions in the occupied Shebaa Farms. [46] Israel retaliated by launching drone strikes and artillery shells at Hezbollah positions near Lebanon's boundary with the Israeli-occupied Golan ...

  5. Nov 3, 2023 · Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim organisation which is politically influential and in control of the most powerful armed force in Lebanon. It was established in the early 1980s by the region's most...

  6. The ideology of Hezbollah has been summarized as Shiite radicalism. Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of pro-Iran Khomeinists during the early 1980s in order to spread the ideology of the Iranian revolution and follows a distinct version of Twelver Shia political theory of "Velayat-e-faqih" developed by the Iranian cleric Khomeini.

  7. Oct 14, 2023 · Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim political party and militant group based in Lebanon, where its extensive security apparatus, political organization, and social services network have...

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