Israel and Hezbollah border on open conflict by increasing the exchange of bombings and rockets. Not since October 7, when the Hamas attack sparked war in Gaza, have Israel and Hezbollah come so close to open war.

Up to 80,000 Israelis from 28 towns a little closer to Lebanon remain evacuated since shortly after the war began. Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah often boasts of having, using only a small fraction of his firepower, so many people in uniform (many of them reservists) hanging on the border.