“We are fed up and we want to live in peace,” Aoun said, adding “(Lebanese people) deserve to live in peace and in dignity, they deserve not seeing their homes being destroyed every five to 10 years.”

Since its founding in the 1980s, Hezbollah has gone to war with Israel multiple times. This year, the group fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for a joint US-Israeli assault on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and much of his senior military command. Israel’s aggressive response has killed more than 3,500 Lebanese and displaced nearly a fifth of the population.

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    4 days ago

    Does this fool do not realize that israel will try to colonize lebanon with or without the existance of Hizbollah

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      3 days ago

      The Maronites hope to be collaborators with the Israelis and to lead the puppet state if that happens, like they did before with the French.