A portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs on Dec. 4, 2024, hung over the site where he was assassinated. (Credit: Nicholas Frakes/L'Orient Today)
Little by little, the secrets related to the period from Oct. 7, 2023, to the signing of the Lebanon-Israel cease-fire agreement on Nov. 27, 2024, are beginning to emerge — at least within Hezbollah’s internal discussions, where the new leadership is trying to understand what really happened and why the “Axis of Resistance” and the “unity of battlefronts,” of which Hassan Nasrallah was so proud, failed to live up to expectations.It all began on the night of Oct. 6, 2023, when a high-level Hamas delegation came to inform Hezbollah’s secretary-general that the Oct.7 attack was about to begin and that its objective was to take Israeli hostages in order to later negotiate a prisoner swap.According to some reports, Nasrallah asked whether this was the “great battle” for liberation that Hamas was launching. The Palestinian delegation said no,...
Little by little, the secrets related to the period from Oct. 7, 2023, to the signing of the Lebanon-Israel cease-fire agreement on Nov. 27, 2024, are beginning to emerge — at least within Hezbollah’s internal discussions, where the new leadership is trying to understand what really happened and why the “Axis of Resistance” and the “unity of battlefronts,” of which Hassan Nasrallah was so proud, failed to live up to expectations.It all began on the night of Oct. 6, 2023, when a high-level Hamas delegation came to inform Hezbollah’s secretary-general that the Oct.7 attack was about to begin and that its objective was to take Israeli hostages in order to later negotiate a prisoner swap.According to some reports, Nasrallah asked whether this was the “great battle” for liberation that Hamas was launching. The Palestinian...