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18 unusual facts about Hezbollah


Aitit

All of Aitit's residents are primarily Shiite Muslims and the absolute most are firm supporters of Hezbollah.

Bill Foley

For his efforts to free Hezbollah hostage and Beirut AP colleague Terry A. Anderson, Foley received one of the first International Press Freedom Awards from the Committee to Protect Journalists in 1991, along with his wife Cary Vaughan.

Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France

On 20 November 2004, it accused the French government of failing to protect citizens from broadcasts by Hezbollah's al-Manar TV, which includes films that CRIF claims are antisemitic and incite Muslims to attack Jews.

Dahieh

It was also the Beirut stronghold of the Shi'ite Islamist group, Hezbollah, and it had a large auditorium in Haret Hreik where Hezbollah followers gather during special occasions.

Janus-Merritt Strategies

Perhaps the most controversial client of the lobbying firm was the American Muslim Council and Abdurahman Alamoudi, a fierce supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah.

Khiam

The town was the scene of a major confrontation between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah fighters during the 2006 Lebanon War, as well as the site of United Nations post, which was bombed by the Israeli Army during the 2006 conflict.

Marwahin

During the 2006 Lebanon War, Marwahin was the site of ground exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah.

Mohamed Omar

Omar previously described himself as a "radical muslim" and supporter of the islamist movements Hamas and Hezbollah, seeing the late Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini as a role model for islamist resistance movements.

Neil Macdonald

The report uncovered documents suggesting the UN investigative body had strong evidence to link the Shia paramilitary group Hezbollah to the 2005 bombing that killed Hariri, and that the UN had not acted on this intelligence due to diplomatic concerns.

Pope Benedict XVI and Islam

Pope Benedict XVI appealed on July 30, 2006 for an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East, hours after the deadliest attack in nearly three weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

Richard Boyd Barrett

In 2007, he called for Ibrahim Moussawi, head of the Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar TV station, to be allowed to enter Ireland to attend a Dublin conference organised by the Irish Anti-War Movement.

Robert Jaspert

After a short break from football, Jaspert took over the reins of Lebanese Premier League outfit Al Ahed, a team supported by the Hezbollah.

Royce C. Lamberth

Given the bench's reasoning, the Islamic Republic of Iran was ordered to pay US$2.65 billion for the actions of Hezbollah, a Shia militia.

State Security Law in Bahrain

The Bahraini government consistently dismissed sectarian unrest as the work of Hezbollah terrorists instigated and supported by Iran.

The Prometheus Deception

The story begins with the protagonist, under the alias the Technician, who is in deep cover to stop the Hezbollah terrorist organization from overthrowing the government of Tunisia.

U.S.–Middle East Free Trade Area

Complications could still exist in getting trade with Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority given continuous Israeli control of disputed territories, and the actions of militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

War Stories with Oliver North

The episodes are often based on current events; the episode which aired August 6, 2006 featured the history of Fidel Castro's rise to power (in light of Castro's temporary relinquishment of power) while the prior week's episode centered on Hezbollah.

Yohmor, Beqaa

It was the site of a bloody battle between the IDF and Hezbollah and cluster munitions were dropped on Yohmor, leaving pock marks in the roads and devastating many buildings.


1979 Nahariya attack

According to Leonard A. Cole, In 2003 Samadar Haran opposed the release of Samir Kuntar in exchange for the bodies of the 3 Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah during the 2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid, and for Elchanan Tannenbaum, the Israeli businessman and former IDF colonel who was kidnapped by Hezbollah in Dubai after being lured out of Israel under the false pretenses of a drug deal.

1996 shelling of Qana

According to a UN report, on April 18, Hezbollah fighters fired two or three Katyusha rockets and between five and eight mortars at Israeli soldiers near the Red Line (the northern limits of the "security zone") from positions about 220 meters southwest and 350 meters southeast of the United Nations compound.

2006 Lebanon War photographs controversies

On 8 August, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper reported about a Hezbollah press tour of a bombed-out area in southern Beirut on 23 July 2006, during which Hezbollah operatives asked a group of empty ambulances to switch on their sirens and flashing lights for the benefit of the waiting press photographers, to give the impression that they were responding to casualties.

2006–08 Lebanese political protests

October 30, 2006 – In a televised interview on Al-Manar, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned of "street demonstrations" to demand early elections if the National Dialogue conference failed to form a national unity government.

The opposition politicians were primarily members of anti-Syrian and Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, pro-Syrian Hassan Nasrallah's Hezbollah, and Nabih Berri's Amal Movement.

Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi

Al-Amoudi was described as an "expert in the art of deception" in a report by Newsweek journalists Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, for expressing moderate, pro-American sympathies in his lobbying and public relations work with Americans, but then expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah at an Islamist rally.

Abu Taha al-Sudan

He is believed to have traveled to Southern Lebanon along with Saif al-Adel, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah.

Arrow Air Flight 1285

On the day of the crash, responsibility was claimed by Islamic Jihad, a wing of Hezbollah.

Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq

After the raid, the U.S. military launched a crackdown on the group and the raid's mastermind Azhar al-Dulaimi was killed in Baghdad, while much of the group's leadership including the brothers Qais and Laith al-Khazali and Lebanese Hezbollah member Ali Musa Daqduq who was Khazali's advisor was in charge of their relations with Hezbollah.

August 2013 Beirut bombing

In their statement the group accused Hezbollah and Nasrallah of being Iranian agents and threatened more attacks.

Avivim

The moshav also came under fire from Hezbollah forces in the nearby village of Maroun al-Ras, across the border in Lebanon.

Ayta ash Shab

On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah initiated a cross-border attack on an Israeli routine patrol, which took place on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border near Ayta ash Shab, between the villages of Zar'it and Shtula (Shetula).

Canadian Coalition for Democracies

The CCD placed particular emphasis on calling for the Canadian government to adopt a pro-Israel stance, and rejected providing Palestinians with any development or humanitarian assistance and was very critical of the Muslim world and, in particular, of groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Debkafile

The site's operators, in contrast, state that 80 percent of what Debka reports turns out to be true, and point to its year 2000 prediction that al-Qaeda would again strike the World Trade Center, and that it had warned well before the 2006 war in Lebanon that Hezbollah had amassed 12,000 Katyusha rockets pointed at northern Israel.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

It is "likely that the notion of suicide bombing" was inspired by Hezbollah as al-Zawahiri had been to Iran to raise money, and had sent his underling Ali Mohamed, "among others, to Lebanon to train with Hezbollah".

Ernst Uhrlau

It is believed Uhrlau was a mediator between Hezbollah and Israel for the return in 2008 of the remains of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, whose kidnapping triggered the 2006 Lebanon war.

Foreign involvement in the 2006 Lebanon War

On September 2, 2004, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1559 calling for the disbanding of all Lebanese militias, among other things, and an armed Hezbollah in South Lebanon is seen by many to be a contravention of the resolution, though the Lebanese government differs on its interpretation.

Ghods Mohajer

Iran sold eight Mohajer-4s to Hezbollah, according to an unnamed Iranian Revolutionary Guards senior officer quoted by London-based Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.

Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi

Some of the subjects he addresses are notably that of the Islamic Hijab (veil), Westoxification, American hegemony, Communism, Christianity, Hezbollah, Jihad, Ayatollah Khomeini, Freedom, Marxism, Western moral corruption, nuclear energy, Shi'a Islam, Israel, Aristotle and Plato, Liberal Democracy, Islamic economics, political Islam but also youth affairs and social struggle.

Hezbollah foreign relations

The foreign ministers of all 28 EU countries agreed to the decision which was based on concerns over Hezbollah's role in the 2012 Burgas bus bombing and the organizations involvement in Syrian civil war supporting the Ba'ath government.

Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi

He claimed also that al-Houthi's relationship with Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, was similar to Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict train service to the station was suspended after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit a train depot in Haifa on July 16, 2006, killing 8 Israel Railways workers.

Khiam

The prison was captured by Hezbollah in the year 2000, shortly prior to Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon security belt.

Lev HaMifratz Railway Station

During the 2006 Lebanon War train service to the station was suspended after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit a train depot in Haifa on July 16, 2006, killing 8 Israel Railways workers.

Maccabi Neve Sha'anan Eldad F.C.

During his reserve duty in the IDF, Maccabi Neve Sha'anan player Eldad Regev was abducted by Hezbollah forces.

Maroun al-Ras

The village was the scene of a major confrontation between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah fighters during the 2006 Lebanon War.

Roi Klein

During the Battle of Bint Jbeil, a hand grenade was thrown over the wall that was between Hezbollah militants, and Klein and his unit.

Shoula Romano Horing

In addition, she has been raising funds to send to JNF's summer camps for Israeli children from northern Israel and Sderot who live under the threat of rockets fired by Hamas and Hezbollah.

Smokescreen

Operation Smokescreen, a US interagency counterterrorist operation from 1995 to 2002 to disrupt fundraising by Hezbollah

Taj El-Din Hilaly

In his speech, he also predicted that Muslims would control the White House and appeared to support Hezbollah.

Timeline of the 2008 fighting in Lebanon

84 Hezbollah fighters, 2 Lebanese Democratic Party (LDP) fighters, 1 pro-government fighter, 4 civilians killed

Yaroun

In July 2006, Yaroun, like other villages that string Lebanon's southern border, such as Ain Ebel, Debel, Qaouzah, and Rmaich, were caught by the gunfire between the political organization Hezbollah and the Israeli army.

Yuval Semo

Among his characters on the show Semo impersonated political commentator Ehud Yaari, musician Mosh Ben-Ari, politician Isaac Herzog, leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, Minister of Justice of Israel Daniel Friedmann, Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, Israeli politician Uri Orbach and the Queen of England.