Published TUESDAY May 28, 2024: 'Axis Of Resistance' by ZUMA Press award winning photo-journalist Marwan Naamani: Hezbollah, the Shia movement created more than forty years ago in Lebanon, is one of the most successful and heavily armed non-state actors in recent history. With tens of thousands of battle hardened fighters and backing from Iran, Hezbollah poses a serious threat to Israel. The group has joined the war between Israel and Hamas and has displaced tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes in the Galilee, northern Israel. The Houthis, Hezbollah's ally and understudy in Yemen, have joined the fight and been bombed by the US and the UK. Hezbollah is playing a careful strategy in the Israel-Hamas war: There is a growing risk that the conflict will expand further beyond Gaza and the Red Sea into a regional war including Lebanon. Welcome to 'Axis Of Resistance'.
© zReportage.com Issue #941 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY May 28, 2024: 'Axis Of Resistance' by ZUMA Press award winning photo-journalist Marwan Naamani: Hezbollah, the Shia movement created more than forty years ago in Lebanon, is one of the most successful and heavily armed non-state actors in recent history. With tens of thousands of battle hardened fighters and backing from Iran, Hezbollah poses a serious threat to Israel. The group has joined the war between Israel and Hamas and has displaced tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes in the Galilee, northern Israel. The Houthis, Hezbollah's ally and understudy in Yemen, have joined the fight and been bombed by the US and the UK. Hezbollah is playing a careful strategy in the Israel-Hamas war: There is a growing risk that the conflict will expand further beyond Gaza and the Red Sea into a regional war including Lebanon. Welcome to 'Axis Of Resistance'.
The mayor of the southern Lebanese border village Dhaira ABDULLAH GHARIB, stands in front the shell damaged wall of his house after Israeli shelling. Two Palestinian militants were killed while attacking an Israel post and Israel responded by pounding the border village killing three pro-Iranian Hezbollah fighters.
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Thick smoke billows from an Israeli rocket explosion on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Dhaira after several militants infiltrated into Israel. Israel said it 'killed a number of armed suspects' who crossed the border from Lebanon, in the wake of the massive escalation of violence between the Palestinians and the Jewish state.
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Indonesian soldiers with the UN peace keeping force secure an area in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh located on the Lebanese-Israeli border. The United Nations Interim Forces in Southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) have urged maximum restraint at the Lebanese border with Israel in the wake of the massive escalation of violence between the Palestinians and the Jewish state.
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Lebanese protesters in Beirut carry Hezbollah flags in solidarity with Palestinians, as fighting between Israeli troops and militants of the Palestinian group Hamas continues in the Gaza Strip.
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A Lebanese army soldier throws a stone back at Lebanese and Palestinian protestors who attacked the premises of the US embassy in Awkar north of Beirut during clashes following a pro-Palestine demonstration.
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Lebanese army soldiers beat up Lebanese and Palestinian protestors who attacked the premises of the US embassy in Awkar north of Beirut during clashes following a pro-Palestine demonstration.
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A Pro-Iranian Hezbollah supporter sheds a tear as she takes part in a demonstration in a Beirut southern suburb in a show of support to Palestinian's during the ongoing war in Gaza.
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Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants chant slogans during the funeral procession of their comrade, who was killed in clashes against Israeli forces in south Lebanon. Fifty-eight Hezbollah fighters have been killed since 8 October in south Lebanon following the unprecedented Hamas attack against Israel.
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The father of the three sisters killed along with their grandmother in an Israeli strike a day earlier, mourns over one of the coffins during their funeral in the Lebanese southern border village of Blida. Three Lebanese girls were killed along with their grandmother when an Israeli strike hit their car while they were traveling between Aytaroun and Aynata in southern Lebanon.
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During the funeral procession for two reporters working for pan-Arab station Al Mayadeen, a mourner wearing a black hijab gestures towards posters of the journalists, who were killed the day before in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon.
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Shattered glass in a window across from the destroyed Hamas office that was attacked by Israel on January 2, killing Palestinian leader Saleh al-Arouri and six others in Beirut's southern suburb.
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German Foreign Minister ANNALENA BAERBOCK arrives to meet her Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib in Beirut. Habib stated 'The two-state solution is the gateway to addressing the main causes of the real conflict in Gaza, Lebanon is counting on Germany's influence in Europe, and the world, for an immediate ceasefire and for allowing relief convoys to enter the Gaza strip.'
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A visitor walks in front of Russian surface to air missile SAM-6 displayed alongside with heavy artillery at the 'Jihadi Museum' in the city of Baalbek. The newly opened museum in Baalbek showcases Hezbollah's military intervention in Syria. Analysts say it is part of a strategy to define the group's role in the region and influence its domestic image among supporters.
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Secretary General of pro-Iranian Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters through a televised speech on a huge screen in the city of Baalbeck. Nasrallah condemned the May 26 Rafah massacre, stating that it stripped away the false facade that had been used to present the Israeli occupation as a 'civilized' entity.
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A Palestinian refugee walks past a mural that shows both spokesmen of Hamas al-Qassam Brigade and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Abu Obaida and Abu Hamza, during a ceremony to mark Al-Quds Day in the refugee camp of Burj al-Barjneh in Beirut. The event that comes the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan was initiated in 1979 in Iran, shortly after the Islamic Revolution.
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Relatives mourn during the funeral procession of the Lebanese civilians who were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a building in the southern Lebanese village of Nabatieh. Seven members of one family were killed when the Israeli drone struck a building on February 14, targeting top pro-Iranian Hezbollah commander Ali al-Debs and four of his guards.
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Lebanese firefighters try to extinguish a fire following Israeli airstrikes on the area of Ghaziyeh near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. 14 people were wounded. The Israeli army spokesperson said pro-Iranian Hezbollah weapons depots were targeted in the raids on Ghaziyeh located about 37 miles north of the border with Israel.
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A woman and her son watch from a window the funeral procession in Beirut for pro-Iranian Hezbollah militant Mustapha Makki, one of six fighters that were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Syrian province of Aleppo. Israeli raids on Syria have killed more than 50 people, including Hezbollah fighters and large number of Syrian soldiers in an area near the militant Lebanese organization's weapons depots.
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Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants and clerics pray over the coffin of party top commander Ahmad Jawad Shahimi during his funeral procession in Beirut. Shahimi was killed along with six other fighters in a deadly Israeli air strike in Syria. More than 50 people including Hezbollah fighters and Syrian troops were killed in the raid that hit a Lebanese organization ammunition depot.
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A Palestinian refugee weeps during a demonstration outside the U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees main office in Beirut in solidarity with the agency employees in Gaza. UNRWA, the main agency in Gaza providing humanitarian aid, came under an Israeli accusation that 12 employees took part in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. More than a dozen international donors, including the U.S., suspended about 50 million in funding after the allegations. Several countries including the USA have since restored funding.
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Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants parade during a ceremony to mark al-Quds Day in Beirut. The annual al-Quds day comes the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants parade during a ceremony to mark al-Quds International Day in southern Beirut. The annual al-Quds day comes the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan and was initiated in 1979 in Iran, shortly after the Islamic Revolution.
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A young woman shouts along other Pro-Palestinian activists in front of riot police outside the Egyptian embassy during a demonstration in Beirut. Scores of Lebanese and Palestinian activists demonstrated outside the embassy in solidarity with Palestinians and demanding Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip.
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Lebanese riot police arrest and remove a pro-Palestinian activist during a demonstration near the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. Scores of Lebanese and Palestinian activists demonstrated outside the embassy in solidarity with Palestinians and demanding Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip.
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Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, PHILIPPE LAZZARINI talks to the press after meeting with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Mikati at the government palace in Beirut. Lazzarini is in Beirut for talks on the situation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and the ongoing war in Gaza Strip.
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Lebanese and Palestinian children light candles during a vigil in Beirut demanding an end to the ongoing war between Israeli forces and Hamas in Gaza Strip and in memory of those who were killed in the recent Rafah tent attack which left at least 21 people dead.
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Lebanese and Palestinian university students and activists chat slogans during a demonstration outside the British embassy in Beirut to commemorate the 76th anniversary of 'Nakba' or catastrophe, marking the time when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth of the state of Israel in 1948, as fighting raged amid the rubble in Gaza.
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