While the world focuses on the war underway in Iran, Israel and the Gulf, there is another war front developing – Lebanon.

Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Shia group, Hezbollah dragged the country into the war, attacking Israel after a joint US-Israeli airstrike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israel then hit back, bombing Beirut and amassing tens of thousands of troops on the border.

Meanwhile, more than a million Lebanese people are now displaced, forced to flee their homes as the attacks continue and Israel demands evacuations.

Today, Michael Young, editor of Carnegie’s Middle East Center blog on whether Lebanon could see a ground invasion and what Israel’s plan is to reshape the region.

 

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Guest: Michael Young, editor of Carnegie’s Middle East Center blog

Photo: EPA/WAEL HAMZEH

While the world focuses on the war underway in Iran, Israel and the Gulf, there is another war front developing &ndash; Lebanon.
Lebanon&rsquo;s Iranian-backed Shia group, Hezbollah dragged the country into the war, attacking Israel after a joint US-Israeli airstrike killed Iran&rsquo;s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel then hit back, bombing Beirut and amassing tens of thousands of troops on the border.
Meanwhile, more than a million Lebanese people are now displaced, forced to flee their homes as the attacks continue and Israel demands evacuations.
Today, Michael Young, editor of Carnegie&rsquo;s Middle East Center blog on whether Lebanon could see a ground invasion and what Israel&rsquo;s plan is to reshape the region.
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Guest: Michael Young, editor of Carnegie&rsquo;s Middle East Center blog
Photo:&nbsp;EPA/WAEL HAMZEH

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The other war front: Lebanon on the brink

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