The Israeli airstrike on a senior Hezbollah leader yesterday came after 10 months of low-level conflict between the militants and Israel.

For insights into Hezbollah's military and political influence, Special correspondent Simone Fulteen

recently traveled to its southern Beirut stronghold,

beginning at the funeral of another Hezbollah commander

assassinated by Israeli forces.

Even without an invasion, Hezbollah and Israel are already at war.

Hezbollah has buried some 350 operatives since October,

that's more than in 2006 when Israel Oh You're not. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. In Gaza, Israel wants a buffer zone on its northern border.

President Biden's envoy Amos Hoekstein has tried to bridge the divide and broke her a deal as part of which Hezbollah would pull back from the border.

Under what conditions would Hezbollah accept such a proposal?

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The United States is not an honest broker or mediator to suggest the American administration is a full partner

with all of the genocide that is taking place in Gaza and with all of the aggressions that are taking

place in Lebanon.

We still have lands occupied by the Israelis.

It's the same cause, it's the same enemy,

it's the same occupation and the same hostilities.

The first thing that should happen, they should make a ceasefire, they should stop the

Israeli killing machine, and after that, when the ceasefire is enacted, there it will be enacted here.

Hezbollah knows Lebanon cannot afford all-out war.

The country has been crippled by an economic and financial crisis for years with many Lebanese already

struggling to make ends meet.

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