“You can’t just kill Hezbollah”

This is just one of several fronts on which Israel is fighting: the war continues to rage in Gaza, the Houthis from Yemen are shelling Israel, as are militias loyal to Iran from Iraq – and Iran is still expecting a counterattack from Israel. In the course of the year-long war, Israel has killed numerous leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran. Israel has shown that it is superior to its enemies militarily and, above all, in terms of intelligence. But the question remains what comes next.

It is not yet clear what will happen next with the Gaza Strip once Hamas is finally defeated militarily. It will live on in the minds of the Palestinians – just as Hezbollah does in the minds of the Lebanese Shiites. And the situation in the West Bank will not calm down any time soon. Israel, in turn, is fighting for its survival – and against a numerically superior force.

The constant bombardments and the fear of further escalation drive him to follow the example of his friends and leave his home. “You can kill the commanders – new ones will come,” he says. Hezbollah has held Lebanon hostage – now the country is threatened with a final collapse. “The Israelis aren’t thinking about what will come next either.” Implementing UN Resolution 1701, according to which Hezbollah should be disarmed, would sound good, “but it hasn’t been done since 2006 and I don’t think so “That this can really succeed,” says Antoni.