In the 1990s, Hezbollah transformed from a revolutionary group into a political one, in a process which is described as the Lebanonisation of Hezbollah.

Although Hezbollah originally aimed to transform Lebanon into a formal Faqihi Islamic republic, this goal has been abandoned in favor of a more inclusive approach.

Hezbollah then launched more rockets into northern Israel and engaged the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) in guerrilla warfare from hardened positions.

The most common pattern of violence have been border incursions by the Hezbollah into the Shebaa Farms area, and then Israeli air strikes into southern Lebanon.

On December 27, 2005 Katyusha rockets fired from Hezbollah territory smashed into houses in the Israeli village of Kiryat Shmona wounding three people.

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.

; 2006 July – August: A military conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel started on July 12, after a Hezbollah cross-border raid into Israel.

Later, he has drifted into sharp opposition towards the group, and has decided to support their disarmament, claiming that Syria and Iran are trying to take over Lebanon through Hezbollah.

" Rød-Larsen noted approvingly that Lebanese troops have deployed in the south, where they are charged with ensuring that Hezbollah militia do not launch rockets across the border into northern Israel.

Envoy noted approvingly that Lebanese troops have deployed in the south, where they are charged with ensuring that Hezbollah forces do not launch rockets across the border into northern Israel.

And by being ideologically and strategically beholden to Iran and Syria, Hezbollah is unilaterally transforming the desire of a considerable number of Lebanese who wish to live in a secure, stable, open and peaceful country into an imposed reality based on the culture of Jihad and martyrdom and confrontation with the international community.

In Israel, it was increasingly debated whether the presence of Israeli forces in southern Lebanon was working, since it was clear that the ' security zone ' could not stop Hezbollah rockets reaching into Israel.

Jordan's King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned on July 14 of the risk of " the region being dragged into adventurism that does not serve Arab interests ," while the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal called the Hezbollah attacks " unexpected, inappropriate and irresponsible acts.

During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Hezbollah fired 180 Katyusha rockets into Karmiel and the neighboring villages, leading to casualties and damage to buildings, roads, and cars.

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.

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.

On 22 July Israeli troops in large numbers moved into Lebanon to demolish Hezbollah outposts, and diminish Hezbollah missile capabilities.

Hezbollah into a political victory for Hezbollah.

The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military.

The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military.

The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military.

Throughout the 1980s the General Command actively cooperated with the nascent Hezbollah paramilitary group ( made mostly of Shia Muslims ) dedicated to armed struggle against Israel, as well as with Syria and Iran, both of whom fund and arm Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Hasan Nasrallah ( born August 31, 1960 ; ) became the third Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah after Israel assassinated the previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi, in 1992.

The two countries engaged in a brief war in the summer of 2006, although the Lebanese Armed Forces were not a party to the fighting, the Israel Defense Forces action being taken instead against the paramilitary group Hezbollah ; and the conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia occurred in 2008.

The Iran student riots, July 1999 were sparked following an attack by an estimated 400 paramilitary Hezbollah vigilantes on a student dormitory in retaliation for a small, peaceful student demonstration against the closure of the reformist newspaper, Salam earlier that day.

* Israel attempts to invade Lebanon in pursuit of Hezbollah paramilitary forces, but fails.

The report uncovered documents suggesting the UN investigative body had strong evidence to link the Shia paramilitary group Hezbollah to the 2005 bombing that killed Hariri, and that the UN had not acted on this intelligence due to diplomatic concerns.

The United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Israel classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, in whole or in part.

Hezbollah, which started with only a small militia, has grown to an organization with seats in the Lebanese government, a radio and a satellite television-station, and programs for social development.

Whether the Islamic Jihad Organization ( IJO ) was a nom de guerre used by Hezbollah or a separate organization, is disputed.

Hezbollah leaders reportedly admitted their involvement in IJO's attacks and the nominal nature of " Islamic Jihad " – that it was merely a " telephone organization ," and whose name was " used by those involved to disguise their true identity.

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.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the government's decision to declare the group's military telecommunications network illegal was a " declaration of war " on the organization, and demanded that the government revoke it.

Since then both Israel and Hezbollah have asserted that the organization has gained in military strength.

Although Hezbollah has denounced certain attacks on civilians, some people accuse the organization of the bombing of an Argentine synagogue in 1994.

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.

Polls of Jordanian adults in December 2005 and June 2006 showed that 63. 9 % and 63. 3 %, respectively, considered Hezbollah to be a legitimate resistance organization.

Countries below have officially listed Hezbollah in at least some part as a terrorist organization.

From this foothold, the Islamic Republic helped organize one of its biggest successes, the Hezbollah militia, a party and social-services organization devoted to the Khomeini principle of Guardianship ( i. e. rule ) of the Islamic Jurists ( Velayat-e-Faqih ), and loyal to Khomeini as their leader.

Over the next seven years Iran is estimated to have spent an estimated $ 5 to $ 10 million US per month on Hezbollah, although the organization is now said to have become more self-sufficient.

In the mid-1990s, Jibril held conferences with these groups in Tehran and Damascus in order to achieve tighter coordination of activities, though his organization remained small and its own actions were more concerned with aiding Hezbollah and achieving an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

" At that time ( prior to the Holy Land trial ), the Times called efforts to link the organization to Hamas and Hezbollah " unsuccessful ," citing a retired FBI official who was active through 2005 and who suggested that while " of all the groups, there is probably more suspicion about CAIR ", you don't get " cold hard facts " although the article goes on to cite the suspicious background of some of CAIR's donors as a source of contention within members of the organization itself.

Although Hezbollah is formally recognized by the government of Canada as a terrorist organization, it is a contentious issue for the Canadian public, as there are some who disagree with this view, regarding Hezbollah as a resistance movement instead.

Issa speculated that the cause of the incident may have been a column written by political commentator Debbie Schlussel in which she charged that Issa sympathized with Hezbollah despite its being listed by the U. S. government as a terrorist organization, charges he denied.

Hezbollah is regarded as a legitimate resistance movement and political party throughout much of the Arab and Muslim worlds, but is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the Netherlands, Israel, and Canada.

Wright has compared Islamic Jihad to the Black September wing of the Palestinian Fatah, serving the function of providing its controlling organization, in this case Hezbollah, with some distance and plausible deniability from acts that might provoke retaliation or other problems.

According to Baer it is " a very distinct organization, which was separate from Hezbollah because you had the consultative council which only had a vague idea of what the hostage-takers were doing.

Israel alleges the organization enjoys financing and technical support from Hezbollah since its founding, and is a sort of proxy of Hezbollah's influence in the Gaza Strip.