How did Hezbollah integrate itself into southern Lebanon and pretty much become the de facto gov but not the strangle hold?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

How did Hezbollah integrate itself into southern Lebanon and pretty much become the de facto gov but not the strangle hold?

mrdown@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

The official government been ignoring the south since independence giving hezbollah the opportunity to build a state within a state building schools, hospital etc

HobbitFoot · 16 days ago

Yeah. Hezbollah typically gets represented in international news more for its militia, but the locals experience it more as a political party/machine running a lot of local government.

PugJesus@piefed.social · 17 days ago

Money and troops shipped straight from Iran, mostly.