Humiliated Hezbollah eyes new tactics in Israel war

The Iranian-backed militant group is under pressure to change its strategy after a series of devastating attacks.

Hezbollah fighters attend funerals for those killed in Israel’s air strike in Beirut. AP

Raya Jalabi, Andrew England and James Shotter

Sep 22, 2024 – 8.51am

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Two days after a devastating sabotage operation stunned Hezbollah and plunged its communications network into chaos, one of the militant group’s most senior military leaders called a clandestine meeting of at least 15 elite officers in southern Beirut.

By nightfall, the men were dead, killed along with at least 10 civilians in an Israeli air strike on Friday (Saturday AEST) that targeted the residential building in Hezbollah’s heartland where they were meeting in an underground room.

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