Anger and nervousness abound on the Lebanese-Israeli border as uncertainty surrounds Hezbollah’s next move
he funeral was over almost as soon as it began. Women did not linger in their lamentations but marched directly alongside the pallbearers to bury the body. An overzealousstaff member did not wait for them to finish before pulling the picture of their fallen comrade off the martyr’s shrine, eager to pack up. Ten minutes later, the crowd dispersed, filtering out past the ad hoc army checkpoints set up for the occasion in the southern Beirut neighbourhood.
The leader appeared tired and his tone was soft – a sharp contrast to his last appearance on 25 August, when he claimed victory for the group’s wide-ranging drone and missile barrage on northern “I will not talk about a time, place or form, but … the reckoning will come,” Nasrallah continued, unaffected by the jets flying overhead.
Father Amil is a community leader for Christian villages in southern Lebanon and has worked to strike a balance between maintaining a cordial relationship with Hezbollah and ensuring Christian villages are not used as staging grounds for attacks against Israel.
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