A photograph shows a banner bearing portraits the slain leaders of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah (l) and Hashem Safieddine, at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted the Burj al-Barajneh neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs on March 14. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of the Iranian supreme leader during US-Israeli strikes.
COMMENTARY: Israel’s vigorous response, with Christians in the crossfire, could rid the Lebanese host of the Hezbollah parasite, or destroy both.
