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Iran sees ceasefire as a chance to take stock and rebuild Hezbollah – report

The Times of Israel reports: “Iran sees the four-day-old ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah as a chance to rebuild the Lebanon-based terror organization, according to sources close to the group quoted by the Washington Post on Saturday.

The sources said that the truce gives Iran a chance to take stock of what was previously its strongest proxy in the region, rebuild, and try to restore deterrence.

Hezbollah, which avowedly seeks Israel’s destruction, may have lost up to 4,000 people in the war, a source told Reuters last week, the vast majority of them during the last two months of intensified fighting.

The Israel Defense Forces has estimated that Israeli forces killed some 3,000 Hezbollah operatives and that it dealt massive blows to Hezbollah’s infrastructure and resources. Around 100 members of other terror groups have also been reported killed in Lebanon…”

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