Dexter Filkins investigates a months-long border fight between old enemies, which threatens to ignite a devastating conflict as Hassan Nasrallah and Benjamin Netanyahu refuse to back down.
Hezbollah has been in conflict with Israel since the group was founded, in the nineteen-eighties, but in the past year the fighting has grown dangerously intense. On October 7th, Hamas militants surged across Israel’s southwestern border and killed more than eleven hundred people. The next day, Hezbollah fired into Israel from the north, launching a volley of rockets that provoked a retaliatory strike.
Finally, the two sides agreed to a ceasefire: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters past the Litani River, which winds across Lebanon north of the Israeli border. They were to be replaced by fifteen thousand soldiers from the Lebanese Army and as many as fifteen thousand U.N. peacekeepers. For both sides, the evident lesson was that the war had been a mistake. Israel had lost a hundred and twenty-one soldiers.
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