With a fake famine in Gaza, strikes from—and counterstrikes on—Yemen, nuclear negotiations with Iran, and a volatile situation in Syria, one could be forgiven for forgetting the Lebanon front. Fortunately, the IDF has not forgotten, and continues its efforts to keep Hizballah from rebuilding. Orna Mizrahi writes:
Since the cease-fire, over 130 Hizballah operatives have been eliminated, and the organization’s infrastructure has been attacked across Lebanon. This includes a broad wave of strikes on April 20, and multiple strikes in Beirut’s Dahiya quarter. On March 28 and April 27, Hizballah infrastructure there was targeted, and on April 1, an operative allegedly involved in planning attacks on Israeli civilians—according to the IDF—was eliminated.
Nevertheless, Hizballah has not disappeared and is trying to recover by any means possible. While its military capabilities are now limited, its military and civilian operatives rank in the tens of thousands, and it continues to enjoy support from the majority of Lebanon’s Shiite population.
This [current Lebanese government] had been elected in January–February 2025 largely due to Hizballah’s weakened state. . . . Since the cease-fire, Lebanese security forces have sought to prevent Hizballah from smuggling arms and cash by blocking transit routes to and from Syria and monitoring air and seaports.
The situation is far from ideal, but is also a far cry from the recent days when the Lebanese government was under Hizballah’s thumb, and had neither the will nor the ability to confront it.
Read more on Institute for National Security Studies: https://www.inss.org.il/publication/hezbollah-2025/