More than 50 Hezbollah fighters have been killed since the start of the war, as the group trades rocket fire and almost daily strikes with Israel.
The Lebanese foreign minister has told Sky News that discussions with Hezbollah and its Iranian funders have left him 'less pessimistic' about the outbreak of a wider war in the Middle East region. 'No one wants war,' Abdallah Bou Habib told us from his office in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. 'And I don't think they'll be a war soon in Lebanon - and I think you know even the Iranians and Hezbollah are not assuring us, but saying this in an indirect way.
In this charged atmosphere, the rhetoric from the committed Hezbollah politicians and spokespeople doesn't appear to be dialling down. 'The genocide that's taking place in Gaza is aching every human soul everywhere, regardless of the ethnicity. It's a matter for humanity,' Ibrahim Mousawi, Hezbollah MP and spokesperson, told us. 'It's either that we have a religion, we have morality, we have humanity - or not.
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