20,000 missiles, drones: What a new Israel war could look like

The last time Israel went to war with Hezbollah in 2006, it threatened to “turn Lebanon’s clock back 20 years” and drive the militant movement from the border. When the conflict ended a month later, Hezbollah had been battered and bruised, but its fighters remained in place.

The back-to-back assassinations of senior figures in Hezbollah and its ally Hamas in the past week have intensified fears that the two arch foes – which have traded blows with increasing intensity since Hamas’ October 7 attack – are once more sliding towards all-out war.

Financial Times