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Hezbollah
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Hezbollah
A Shi'a Muslim political party and paramilitary organization in Lebanon. Hezbollah was established in the 1980s in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It operates a number of social services, though some countries regard it as a terrorist organization. It was responsible for the capture and killing of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, an incident that led to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War. This war, and Hezbollah's response to it, increased the organization's popularity in Lebanon among Sunni Muslims, Christians and others.


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A second Syrian preoccupation is that a hostile regime in Lebanon might, with international support, seek to disarm Hezballah, the Shiite party and militia allied to both Iran and Syria, which fought Israel to a standstill in the summer war of 2006.
We will not forgive anyone who confiscates a bullet", he declared in a speech last Friday during the annual commemoration of the killing of two senior Hezballah officials in Israeli attacks in 1987 and 1992, Sheikh Ragheb Harb and Sayyed Abbas Moussawi.
Ira Kaplan Woodland Hills The word `Hezballah' The correct spelling of this word is, of course, Hezballah -- which means Party Of God.
 
 
 
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