It has been over a year since the conflict between Israel and the unified group that continues to batter the middle east, known as Hezbollah. Hezbollah is considered a terrorist group not only by the United States, but also by many other countries; Hezbollah contains many deep-rooted military alliances, along with several anti-Israel regimes located in Iran and Syria.

Leading up to the first attack on October 8, 2023, there have been rising amounts of border clashes between the two in more recent years. Those clashes at the borders had been escalating in frequency and force during Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas, which broke out the previous year. Much of Hezbollah’s history includes numerous bombing incidents, with many of the incidents resulting from Hezbollah bombing some of Israel’s visiting ambassadors. Part of the reason for why Hezbollah and Israel decided to go to war is because sometime in September 2024, Hezbollah’s leader at the time, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed by an Israel air strike force. Because of Hezbollah’s brief leadership struggle, for the time being, they had trouble mobilizing to engage in any supported combat against Israel. 

Now, in 2025, the war is still ongoing, but in more recent news, the Biden administration has put forth and has begun shifting more than $100 million in military aid from Israel, to Egypt, and to Lebanon, hopefully trying to reinforce a ceasefire agreement to accomplish some sort of peacefulness between the two inflicting parties. The State Department confirmed that $95 million of the aid will be transferred and put towards military assistance for Egypt and 7.5 million for Israel and in support for the Lebanese army and its government. Most of the money will be for the Lebanese Armed Forces, which have a critical role in the ‘stand-up’ for ceasefire that was agreed to in November, however that changed to a followed ‘all-out’ war between Israel and Hezbollah that ended up battering much of eastern and southern Lebanon for months.

Both Israel and Hezbollah agreed to pull their forces out of Lebanon before the end of January in 2025, with their compliance being supervised by the Lebanese Army as well as the U.N. Peacekeepers. 

There will be more and upcoming news to follow.

Sources:

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-hezbollah 

https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-egypt-military-aid-aa044b7637ee33b6ba8f19cb080d1c40