I'm John Batchel with my good colleagues, Bill Rajo of the FDD.

He's a senior fellow who keeps the Long Word Journal where you can see David Dio is reporting.

David joins us.

We go to Hezbollah.

Within hours of a conversation I had last Thursday with someone who lives within 10 kilometers of the northern border with Lebanon, within hours, the missiles flew, the drones flew.

And the report had been positive that residents were feeling safe to return to the north, as they have not felt since October of 23.

Is this Hezbollah's campaign, a couple of hotheads with rockets?

How do you read this, David?

So it's unclear.

Hezbollah did deny their involvement and responsibility for the three rockets that were fired.

They did so after the first wave of Israeli airstrikes that happened on Sunday.

Sorry, Saturday rather.

It's unclear.

Traditionally, I would say that Hezbollah right now does not want to restart hostilities with Israel.

They even put out a statement after the renewal of Israeli operations in Gaza that, unlike their posture, post-October 7th of 20203, did not mention any threat of supporting Gaza in any way.

In fact, they called the United Nations the Security Council

on Human Rights Organizations to put pressure on the Israelis to cease their operations, just to

show you where Asbelo views its alliances and its partners. But there was no threat of renewing

hostilities. They've taken a drubbing, and right now they're struggling to find their footing in Lebanon

they're not down for the count by any means but right now they have a long process to regeneration

and rocking the boat domestically increasing further anger in Lebanon at them increasing the

willingness or the of other Lebanese to confront them, increasing the anger

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