Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of its 2022 study titled “Hezbollahland: Mapping Dahiya and Lebanon’s Shia Community.”
Protesters wave Palestinian, Lebanese, and Hezbollah flags and a picture of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during an anti-Israel rally in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Lebanon's southern city of Nabatieh on Oct. 13.
Members of the Shiite movement Hezbollah hold a military parade in the town of Riyaq in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Feb. 13, marking the annual anniversary of the group's so-called martyred leaders.
Supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah movement hold a poster of slain Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani and Hezbollah flags as the movement’s leader delivers a speech in Beirut on Jan. 5.
