What is Hezbollah in Lebanon and will it go to war with Israel? - BBC News

A deadly attack on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights has heightened fears of full-on fighting.

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A rocket attack blamed by Israel on Hezbollah which killed 12 children and young adults on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has sharply heightened fears of an all-out war between the two sides.

It was the deadliest incident in and around Israel's northern border in nine months of near daily exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim organisation which is politically influential and in control of the most powerful armed force in Lebanon.

It was established in the early 1980s by the region's most dominant Shia power, Iran, to oppose Israel. At the time, Israel's forces had occupied southern Lebanon, during the country's civil war.

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