Is this war? The Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is hard to define — or predict

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“If someone had told me or most analysts in summer 2023 that Hezbollah is striking Israeli bases in Israel, and Israel is striking southern Lebanon and parts of southern Beirut, I would have said, okay, that’s an all-out war,” said Andreas Krieg, a military analyst at King’s College London.

“I think the Israelis are trying to either tell #Hezbollah, you come to the negotiation table and we’ll settle this through diplomacy, or we’ll push you into a corner until you overreact,” Dr Andreas Krieg said. “And that will be the all-out war.”

Period	23 Sept 2024
Held at	Associated Press, United Kingdom