Overview

• Hezbollah has condemned Israel’s strikes on Iran and voiced solidarity with Tehran although it has not threatened to join the conflict.
• The group remains weakened from its 2023 war with Israel, which decimated its leadership, killed thousands of fighters and destroyed key strongholds.
• The ceasefire bars Hezbollah from deploying south of the Litani river, leaving only the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers in that zone.
• Israel has resumed strikes in southern Lebanon, including recent raids that killed two civilians in Kfar Juz, maintaining that attacks will continue until Hezbollah is disarmed.
• US envoy Tom Barrack has pressed Lebanon’s government to enforce a monopoly on arms and has pledged American support for Lebanon’s stability efforts.