Israel’s attacks have devastated Hezbollah. How is it still fighting back?

More than a month into the outbreak of open war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Shiite group is still showing itself capable of launching rockets, drones and now precision missiles deep into Israeli territory despite the near obliteration of its political and military leadership.

In the third week of September, in the final weeks before the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the world that the aims of Israel’s war were changing. With Gaza in ruins, more than 42,000 Palestinians dead and hundreds of thousands more forced from their homes, Israel was turning its gaze to its northern border with Lebanon, where steady exchanges of rocket fire across the border with Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah had driven tens of thousands of Israeli civilians to take shelter far from the frontier.

Gerges said that Israel’s killing of secretary-general Nasrallah and much of the military command structure had badly damaged the militant group.