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A national unity government was formed in 2008, giving Hezbollah and its opposition allies control of eleven of thirty cabinets seats ; effectively veto power.
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.
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.
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.
In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?
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.
< Blockquote > The supreme decision-making bodies of the Hezbollah were divided between the Majlis al-Shura ( Consultative Assembly ) which was headed by 12 senior clerical members with responsibility for tactical decisions and supervision of overall Hizballah activity throughout Lebanon, and the Majlis al-Shura al-Karar ( the Deciding Assembly ), headed by Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah and composed of eleven other clerics with responsibility for all strategic matters.
" In July 2006, during the war with Israel, when there was no running water in Beirut, Hezbollah was arranging supplies around the city.
The fighting was sparked by a government move to shut down Hezbollah's telecommunication network and remove Beirut Airport's security chief over alleged ties to Hezbollah.
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.
At the end of the conflicts, National unity government was formed by Fouad Siniora on July 11, 2008 and Hezbollah has one minister and controls eleven of thirty seats in the cabinet.
* 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.
The aim of the operation was to eradicate the threat posed by Hezbollah and to force the civilian population north to Beirut so as to put pressure on the Lebanese Government to restrain Hezbollah.
* 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.
A cease-fire was agreed upon between Israel and Hezbollah, which would be effective on April 27, 1996.
The conflict was precipitated by a cross-border raid by Hezbollah during which they kidnapped and killed Israeli soldiers.
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 July 2011, Italian newspaper Corierre della Sera reported, based on American and Turkish sources, that Hezbollah was behind a bombing in Istanbul in May 2011 that wounded eight Turkish civilians.
According to security officials, the man was planning attacks for Hezbollah in Cyprus and admitted this after questioning.

Hezbollah and largely
* War on Terrorism ( 2001 – present ) – refers to several ideological, military, and diplomatic campaigns aimed at putting an end to international terrorism by preventing groups defined by the U. S. and its allies as terrorist ( largely Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas ) from posing a threat to the U. S. and its allies, and by putting an end to state sponsorship of terrorism.
During the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli bombardments seeking Hezbollah targets caused damage in many parts of Beirut, especially the poorer and largely Shiite South Beirut, which is controlled by Hezbollah.

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A national unity government was formed in 2008, giving Hezbollah and its opposition allies control of 11 of 30 cabinets seats ; effectively veto power.
Hezbollah itself was formed by religious members of Amal who had left after Nabih Berri's assumption of full control and the subsequent resignation of most of Amal's earliest members.
In the subsequent parliamentary election held in May and June, the Lebanese Forces formed part of the Rafik Hariri Martyr List, which also included the Future Movement, Popular Socialist Party, the reformed Phalange party, and other anti-Syrian political groups, as well as a brief tactical alliance with Amal and Hezbollah.
It is the first government formed after the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon and the first government to include members of the pro-Iranian militant group Hezbollah.

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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.
Hezbollah alongside with some other groups began the 2006 – 2008 Lebanese political protests in opposition to the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
At the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, despite the Taif Agreement asking for the " disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias ," Syria, in control of Lebanon at that time, allowed Hezbollah to maintain their arsenal, and control the Shiite areas in Southern Lebanon along the border with Israel.
At the end of that year, Hezbollah began to engage in dialog with Lebanese Christians.
Hezbollah regards cultural, political, and religious freedoms in Lebanon as sanctified, although it does not extend these values to groups who have relations with Israel.
The names Islamic Jihad Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth and the Revolutionary Justice Organization are considered to be synonymous with Hezbollah by the United States, Israel, and Canada.
Robert S. Wistrich, a historian specializing in the study of anti-Semitism, described Hezbollah's ideology concerning Jews: " The anti-Semitism of Hezbollah leaders and spokesmen combines the image of seemingly invincible Jewish power ... and cunning with the contempt normally reserved for weak and cowardly enemies.
" 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.
Hezbollah currently operates at least four hospitals, twelve clinics, twelve schools and two agricultural centres that provide farmers with technical assistance and training.
Hezbollah alongside with Amal is one of two major political parties in Lebanon that represent the Shiite Muslims.
" Hezbollah, along with the Amal Movement, represents most of Lebanese Shi ' a.
Hezbollah launched the station in 1991 with the help of Iranian funds.
The Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau released a video game in 2003 entitled Special Force and a sequel in 2007 in which players are rewarded with points and weapons for killing Israelis.
Hezbollah has been involved in several cases of armed conflict with Israel:
Israel responded with airstrikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon that damaged Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport ( which Israel said that Hezbollah used to import weapons and supplies ), an air and naval blockade, and a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
It has been estimated by Mustafa Alani, security director at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Centre that Hezbollah's military force is made up of about 1, 000 full-time Hezbollah members, along with a further 6, 000 – 10, 000 volunteers.
According to various reports, Hezbollah is armed with anti-tank guided missiles, namely, the Russian-made AT-3 Sagger, AT-4 Spigot, AT-5 Spandrel, AT-13 Saxhorn-2 ' Metis-M ', АТ-14 Spriggan ' Kornet '; Iranian-made Ra ' ad ( version of AT-3 Sagger ), Towsan ( version of AT-5 Spandrel ), Toophan ( version of BGM-71 TOW ); and European-made MILAN missiles.
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.

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