French President Emmanuel Macron called this Thursday, October 24 for a ceasefire “ as soon as possible » in Lebanon during an international conference in support of this country in Paris. Hezbollah has confirmed the death in an Israeli bombing of Hachem Safieddine, the expected successor to Hassan Nasrallah at the head of the Lebanese Islamist movement. Israel, which carries out ground operations supported by air strikes, announced that it had targeted weapons depots in the massive bombings which struck the southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday evening, October 23. After Israel's elimination of Nasrallah and Safieddine, the pro-Iranian Shiite party, which also lost hundreds of political and military executives in the booby-trapped pager affair, how much can Hezbollah withstand these blows? Interview with Antoine Basbous, political scientist, partner at Forward Global and director of the Arab Countries Observatory.
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