The other war front: Lebanon on the brink
While the world focuses on the war under way in Iran, Israel and the Gulf, there is another front developing – Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Shia group, Hezbollah, dragged the country into the war, attacking Israel after the joint US-Israeli airstrike that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel then hit back, bombing Beirut and amassing tens of thousands of troops on the border.
Meanwhile, more than a million Lebanese people are displaced, forced to flee their homes as the attacks continue and Israel demands evacuations.
Today, Michael Young, editor of Carnegie’s Middle East Centre blog on whether a ground invasion of Lebanon is likely and what Israel’s plan is to reshape the region.
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