A Hezbollah ambulance destroyed during the latest conflict with Israel, on July 1, 2025, in the village of Yater in southern Lebanon. (credit: Matthieu Karam/L’Orient-Le Jour)
After its weapons, its social machinery. Ahead of the Lebanese parliamentary elections, new United States’ sanctions and unprecedented Kuwaiti measures targeting Hezbollah were announced last week. They clearly aim to disrupt the party’s social apparatus. It is especially Kuwait — a major funder in the health sector — that surprised everyone by sanctioning eight Lebanese hospitals indirectly linked to Hezbollah for their alleged ties to “terrorism.” “It is a first to directly sanction a hospital,” said Hussein Choucair, director of al-Rassoul al-Aazam Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which was listed by Kuwait. The U.S., for its part, announced a series of sanctions targeting “key mechanisms Hezbollah uses to maintain its economic stability.” Read more In numbers: Public opinion in Arab world grows hostile towards Israel As...
After its weapons, its social machinery. Ahead of the Lebanese parliamentary elections, new United States’ sanctions and unprecedented Kuwaiti measures targeting Hezbollah were announced last week. They clearly aim to disrupt the party’s social apparatus. It is especially Kuwait — a major funder in the health sector — that surprised everyone by sanctioning eight Lebanese hospitals indirectly linked to Hezbollah for their alleged ties to “terrorism.” “It is a first to directly sanction a hospital,” said Hussein Choucair, director of al-Rassoul al-Aazam Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which was listed by Kuwait. The U.S., for its part, announced a series of sanctions targeting “key mechanisms Hezbollah uses to maintain its economic stability.” Read more In numbers: Public opinion in Arab world grows hostile...
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