Almost daily exchanges of fire have occurred along Lebanon’s frontier.
Fighters from Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, on May 21, 2023. | Hassan Ammar/APBEIRUT — Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join with the militant Hezbollah group in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war, officials with Iran-backed factions and analysts say.
Over the past decade, Iran-backed fighters from Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan fought together in Syria’s 13-year conflict, helping tip the balance in favor of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Officials from Iran-backed groups say they could also join together again against Israel. Some of the groups have already staged attacks on Israel and its allies since the Israel-Hamas war started Oct. 7. The groups from the so-called “axis of resistance” say they are using a “unity of arenas strategy” and they will only stop fighting when Israel ends its offensive in Gaza against their ally, Hamas.
He said there could be intervention by the Houthis and Iraqi militias and a “massive flow of jihadists from including Afghanistan, Pakistan” into Lebanon and into Syrian areas bordering Israel.
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