Hezbollah

Hezbollah is a Shiite party in Lebanon. For 2022, its combat wing is an order of magnitude more capable than the Lebanese army. The organization is armed with more than hundreds of thousands of missiles, as well as combat-ready, motivated and trained detachments.

Since its founding in the mid-1980s, Hezbollah has fundamentally opposed Israel and fought wars with it - from the liberation of occupied southern Lebanon in the 1990s to repelling an invasion in 2006. To this day, there are shootings and even exchanges of blows on the border between states.

Hezbollah is Iran's main ally in Lebanon.

A significant part of Lebanon's Shiite youth sincerely support the group, which is facilitated by its successful propaganda and broad social activities. The organization has a scout movement, charitable and medical organizations, a network of sports centers and even its own football club. All this forms a large base of supporters who support Hezbollah even without joining its ranks.

2024

Israel kills top Hezbollah member Haj Jawad al-Tawil

In January 2024, an Israeli drone launched another pinpoint strike on Herbet Selm in southern Lebanon. As a result of the missile attack, one of the senior commanders of the Rezwan special forces as part of the Hezbollah group, Haj Javad al-Tawil, was killed.

Missile strike on Israeli military air traffic control base Meron

In January 2024, Hezbollah spoke about its missile strike on Meron, an Israeli air traffic control base on top of Mount Jarmak in northern occupied Palestine and its highest mountain peak.

Meron Base is considered the only air control, surveillance and control center in the north, and there is no serious alternative.

It is one of two bases in Israel, Meron to the north and the other "Mitzpe Ramon" to the south.

Meron Base organizes, coordinates and manages all air operations in the direction of,,, and the Syria Lebanon Turkey Cyprus northern part of the eastern Mediterranean basin.

The base is a large center for conducting electronic suppression operations in these directions. This base employs a large number of elite Israeli officers and soldiers.

2022

How Hezbollah gets its guns

Direct supplies to Lebanon cannot always provide secrecy and entail the risks of attacks by opposition Hezbollah political forces, so cargo traffic went through neighboring Syria. Planes unloaded weapons at Damascus airport, after which they went on the ground to Lebanon.

However, in the early 2020s, the Israeli Air Force regularly attacked the air harbor immediately after the arrival of the sides. It is likely that due to losses and resulting costs, Iran decided to supply goods directly to Lebanon.

In December 2022, the media reported on Israel's threats to strike at Beirut airport. The reason was speculation about the use of the air harbor of the Lebanese capital for the supply of weapons allegedly carried out by the Iranian airline Meraj Airlines. Lebanese authorities deny all charges.

Of course, the attacks of the Israelis influenced Iranian logistics, but the Syrian authorities also played a role in this. In nearly 3 years of truce and no external threat, the family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has strengthened its position and actively tried to reduce the influence of its foreign allies, including Hezbollah. This is largely in exchange for money from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which are sharply opposed to Iran.

Back in May 2022, the Rybar channel became aware of specific cases when the Syrian special services restricted the movement of Hezbollah-owned cars: only three or four command vehicles were allowed to move without inspection. Passes for passage through checkpoints were also massively seized from the transport of the group. Through the creation of supply problems, the organization began to be literally squeezed out of the occupied areas. As a result, the leadership of Hezbollah considered a significant reduction in the presence in Syria six months ago.

Drug trafficking captagon

In the West, in 2022, they like to portray the Lebanese group Hezbollah as the main beneficiary from the drug trade in captagon. She really earns on prohibited substances, but she will not be able to become a monopoly even if she wishes.

Drug production in Lebanon is carried out by all the largest political forces. The sphere is so regulated that even after the legalization of the cultivation of medical cannabis, cartels began hunting for loners in order to prevent them from entering the market.

Hezbollah will not be able to fully independently ensure the traffic of substances even within Lebanon itself: there are enough disloyal areas in the country, where they simply will not let cargo to the port. The production and delivery of captagon outside the country would not have been possible without the help of the Lebanese authorities and big business.

Through the efforts of the Western media, the role of Hezbollah in the regional drug trade is extremely exaggerated. At best, the grouping is only a link in the traffic chain of prohibited substances.