What is next for Hezbollah in Lebanon?

Lebanon is taking a cautious sigh of relief but the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel stands on shaky ground.

While fighting may be over - or at least paused - attention now shifts to another challenge facing Lebanon and Hezbollah: internal reckoning.

While Hezbollah’s supporters, along with other segments of the Lebanese population, see the war’s outcome as a victory for the party, others have decried the bloodshed and destruction caused by a conflict they did not back.

“Hezbollah’s claim of victory holds little weight outside its core constituency,” Imad Salamey, a Middle Eastern politics expert at the Lebanese American University, told Middle East Eye.

“The war was not widely popular among the Lebanese people, many of whom are more focused on the devastating economic losses inflicted during the conflict.”

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