Not sure exactly what Hezbollah is? Here's exactly what you need to know:

Hezbollah deliberately stores its weapons in civilian structures in order to use humans as shields, a violation of international law.

 

A July report by the ALMA Research and Education Center found that the group has at least 28 missile launching sites, command and control infrastructure, missile assembly sites, rocket fuel storage sites and missile bunkers next to high schools, clinics, hospitals, golf clubs and soccer fields as well as the Iranian Embassy and the Lebanese Ministry of Defense.

 

Weapons are also stored in southern Lebanese towns close to the border with Israel.

Hezbollah has been responsible for thousands of attacks in Israel. 

Attacks occurred as recently as August 25 where Hezbollah attempted to fire shots toward IDF soldiers. On July 27, the organization attempted an armed infiltration, and previously on September 1, 2019, militants fired anti-tank missiles. 

 

More predominantly however, are the attacks that occurred on Israel's northern border in 2006 in which Hezbollah was responsible for the deaths of three Israeli soldiers, and the abduction of two others, sparking the second Lebanon War, which consequently caused the death of both many more soldiers and civilians. 

 

Twelve years later, in 2018, the IDF exposed and neutralized underground attack tunnels dug by Hezbollah in order to infiltrate Israel from Lebanon. 

 

Hezbollah intended to use the tunnels to infiltrate Israel from Lebanon. On the Lebanese side, the tunnels were at least some 200 feet deep (60 meters), and on the Israeli side were some 250 feet deep (76 meters). 

Hezbollah has been responsible for violent terror attacks across the globe, both killing and injuring hundreds of people, spanning from Bulgaria, Buenos Aires, London and Paris.

The earliest attack dates back as early as 1983, when the organization struck the US embassy in Beirut, killing 63. The latest global incident occurred in 2015 when Hezbollah hid 2 tons of ammonium nitrate, the same substance that caused the 2020 Beirut blast, in four separate locations in London. 

The Lebanese terrorist group also stored hundreds of kilograms of ammonium nitrate in southern Germany, which were uncovered earlier this year.

The organization, is responsible for many more attacks around the globe, including simultaneous suicide bombings in French and US bases in Beirut in 1983 killing a total of 241 US personal and 58 French soldiers; the hijacking of a TWA Flight 847 in 1985, the brutal murder of a US soldier, and a 17 day long hostage crisis involving 19 passengers. 

Additionally, Hezbollah was responsible for the string of orchestrated bombings on targets in Paris, including the famous Champs -Eylsees, and a failed attempt on the Eiffel tower. During the incident hundreds were injured. 

Hezbollah is recognized as a terror organization in its entirety by many countries and international organizations, including: The United States; The United Kingdom; The Arab League; Germany; Argentina; Paraguay; Israel; Canada; Colombia; Japan; The Netherlands; Bahrain; Lithuania and the Gulf Cooperation Council. 

However, some countries and organizations only recognize Hezbollah's "military" wing as a terror group, despite that Hezbollah itself does not make this distinction. 

In 2012, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem said, "We do not have a military wing and a political wing, we have nothing but the resistance as a priority."