Hezbollah says that the main source of its income comes from donations by Muslims.

CAIR also says that accusations against it have their roots in its refusal to endorse the U. S .' s blanket condemnation of Hezbollah and Hamas, though it says it did criticize Hamas for civilian deaths.

Israel says the land was Syrian when it was captured during the Six Day War, and the dispute is being used by Hezbollah to continue its attacks on Israel.

A later dispute over Hezbollah preservation of its telecoms network led to clashes and Hezbollah-led opposition fighters seized control of several West Beirut neighborhoods from Future Movement militiamen loyal to Fouad Siniora.

A national unity government was formed in 2008, giving Hezbollah and its opposition allies control of eleven of thirty cabinets seats ; effectively veto power.

Unlike its uncompromising revolutionary stance in the 1980s, Hezbollah conveyed a lenient stance towards the Lebanese state.

Hezbollah won all twelve seats which were on its electoral list.

A 2003 decision by an American court found IJO was the name used by Hezbollah for its attacks in Lebanon, and parts of the Middle East, and Europe.

Hezbollah also used another name, Islamic Resistance, or al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, for its attacks against Israel.

At the beginning many Hezbollah leaders have maintained that the movement was " not an organization, for its members carry no cards and bear no specific responsibilities ," and that the movement does not have " a clearly defined organizational structure.

" Nowadays, as Hezbollah scholar Magnus Ranstorp reports, Hezbollah does indeed have a formal governing structure, and in keeping with the principle of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists ( velayat-e faqih ), it " concentrate ... all authority and powers " in its religious leaders, whose decisions then " flow from the ulama down the entire community.

Structurally, Hezbollah does not distinguish between its political / social activities within Lebanon and its military / jihad activities against Israel.

" Hezbollah also rewards its guerilla members who have been wounded in battle by taking them to Hezbollah-run amusement parks.

The army also pledged to resolve the dispute and has reversed the decisions of the government by letting Hezbollah preserve its telecoms network and re-instating the airport's security chief.

On the basis of this agreement, Hezbollah and its opposition allies were effectively granted veto power in Lebanon's parliament.

Al-Manar, the self-proclaimed " Station of the Resistance ," ( qanat al-muqawama ) is a key player in what Hezbollah calls its " psychological warfare against the Zionist enemy " and an integral part of Hezbollah's plan to spread its message to the entire Arab world.

" Hezbollah held a victory parade, and its popularity in Lebanon rose.

Hezbollah and many analysts considered this a victory for the movement, and since then its popularity has been boosted in Lebanon.

Both sides agreed that civilians should not be targeted, which meant that Hezbollah would be allowed to continue its military activities against IDF forces inside Lebanon.

Hezbollah has not revealed its armed strength.

Leaked cables from American diplomats suggest that the United States has been trying unsuccessfully to prevent Syria from " supplying arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon ", and that Hezbollah has " amassed a huge stockpile ( of arms ) since its 2006 war with Israel "; the arms were described as " increasingly sophisticated.

, the Israeli government believed Hezbollah had an arsenal of more than 15, 000 long-range rockets stationed on its border with Lebanon.

* In April 1996, after continued Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, the Israeli armed forces launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, which was intended to wipe out Hezbollah's base in southern Lebanon.

The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon, leaving more than 1500 dead civilians and still the Israeli army couldn't penetrate the Lebanese land borders and was driven back by Hezbollah suffering heavy casualties and defeated.

Even after the Israeli military withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, to the line designated by UN officials, Hezbollah cites what it sees as continued Israeli occupation of the disputed Shebaa Farms as justification for attacks on Israel.

Hezbollah cites the ongoing occupation of the Shebaa farms as one reason for its continued attacks on Israel.

The city continued to be the target of attacks after this, including Katyusha rocket attacks by the PLO in July 1981, a Katyusha rocket attack by the PLO in March 1986 ( killing a teacher and injuring four students and one adult ), and further Katyusha rocket attacks by Hezbollah during 1996's Operation Grapes of Wrath.

Although Syria eventually withdrew from Lebanon, it maintained its influence via Hezbollah who continued to attack Northern Israel long after the withdrawal had been certified by UNIFL.

The rocket attacks by Hezbollah continued unabated for the next two years, and it was these attacks coupled with the incursion of Hezbollah militants into Northern Israel to kill and kidnap IDF soldiers that led to the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.

Siniora has more stated on 20 July 2006 that " the continued presence of Israeli occupation of Lebanese lands in the Shebaa Farms region is what contributes to the presence of Hezbollah weapons.

The UN Security Council accused Hezbollah of initiating the hostilities.

In the following days, hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah increased to a point of both parties exchanging tough rhetoric and escalating into deadly military campaigns.

Hezbollah waged an asymmetrical guerrilla war against Israel using suicide attacks against the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) and against Israeli targets outside of Lebanon.

In 1997, Hezbollah formed multi-confessional Lebanese Brigades to Fighting the Israeli Occupation, which was an attempt to revive national and secular resistance against Israel, which marks the Lebanonisation of resistance.

According to Hezbollah's Deputy-General, Na ' im Qasim, the struggle against Israel is a core belief of Hezbollah and the central rationale of Hezbollah's existence.

Hezbollah denounced, and protested against, the resolution.

* In 2009, a Hezbollah plot in Egypt was uncovered, where Egyptian authorities arrested 49 men for planning attacks against Israeli and Egyptian targets in the Sinai Peninsula.

* During the 1982 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict, Hezbollah waged a guerrilla campaign against Israeli forces occupying Southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah was responsible for thousands of Katyusha rocket attacks against Israeli civilian towns and cities in northern Israel, which Hezbollah said were in retaliation for Israel's killing of civilians and targeting Lebanese infrastructure.

In 2010, Hezbollah claimed that the Dalit and Tamar gas field, discovered by Noble Energy roughly west of Haifa in Israeli exclusive economic zone, belong to Lebanon, and warned Israel against extracting gas from them.

On June 30, 2011, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, established to investigate the death of the former prime minister Rafic Hariri, issued arrest warrants against four senior members of Hezbollah.

On July 3, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment and denounced the tribunal as a plot against the party, vowing that the named persons would not be arrested under any circumstances.

According to Michel Samaha, Lebanon ’ s minister of information, Hezbollah is seen as a legitimate resistance organization that has defended its land against an Israeli occupying force and has consistently stood up to the Israeli army.

Some public opinion has started to turn against Hezbollah for their support of Syrian President Assad's attacks on the opposition movement in Syria Crowds in Cairo shouted out against Iran and Hezbollah, at a public speech by Hamas President Ismail Haniya in February 2012, when Hamas changed its support to the Syrian opposition.

Only Hezbollah retained its weapons, and was supported by Lebanon's parliament in doing so, because it officially for defending Lebanon against the Israeli occupation.