Exclusive: How Hezbollah rebuilt while its enemies declared its death

Exclusive: How Hezbollah rebuilt while its enemies declared its death Submitted by Adam Chamseddine on Thu, 03/19/2026 - 16:30 The heavy blows Israel inflicted in 2024 prompted a return to the 'Mughniyeh spirit', sources say, creating a more agile and impenetrable fighting force A Hezbollah member at the public funeral ceremony for late Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine in Beirut, on 23 February 2025 (Reuters/Emilie Madi) On For over a year, Israel , Washington and even Lebanon’s government have been speaking as if Hezbollah has been broken for good. Yet the Lebanese armed movement is once again at war with Israel, striking its enemy in response to the US-Israeli war on Iran . Its performance on the battlefield and ability to strike deep into Israeli territory shows that Hezbollah treated its 15 months of ceasefire with Israel not as an end to war, but as a narrow and urgent window to rebuild, reorganise and prepare for what it believed would inevitably come next.