Hezbollah, Igniting Conflict

News photos of Beirut, Lebanon, Israel, and Hezbollah from National Geographic.
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With the youthful face of suicide bomber Ahmad Qasir as a backdrop, Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheik Naim Qassem speaks in Tyre, Lebanon, during Martyrs' Day celebrations in 2005.

On the same spot in 1982 Qasir reportedly blew up an Israeli military headquarters on Lebanese soil, killing more than 80 people. The attack came five months after Israel had invaded southern Lebanona home base for attacks by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at the time. Three years later Muslim clerics officially formed Hezbollah to oust the Israelis from southern Lebanon.
—Photograph by Alexandra Avakian/National Geographic magazine
 

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