“NOT A ONE-MAN SHOW”
With Lebanon’s strongest man gone and his Shiite Muslim neighborhood displaced and bereaved, its assist base will count on greater than only a symbolic response, analysts stated.
Amal Saad, a Lebanese researcher of Hezbollah at Britain’s Cardiff College, stated that after the large blow to the now leaderless group, it could must strike a fragile stability in selecting a response.
On the one hand, Hezbollah would search to keep away from triggering an Israeli “carpet bombing marketing campaign towards Beirut or all of Lebanon”, whereas “on the identical time elevating the morale” of its supporters and fighters, she stated.
Hezbollah would want to point out it may shield its personal individuals, and precise revenge on Israel but in addition maintain the peace amongst Lebanon’s numerous non secular communities.
Shiite Lebanese, who represent the group’s assist base, are among the many tens of 1000’s displaced from Lebanon’s south, east and Dahiyeh by Israel’s bombardment – in search of shelter in areas the place different non secular communities stay.
