Hezbollah may be seeking to shift its operational base from Lebanon to Europe, according to Israeli senior sources quoted in the London Sunday Times. One indication of this new departure is the militant organization’s decision to recruit young Europeans to fight Israel. The head of the Lebanon desk at Israeli military intelligence told the Times that the group had realized the usefulness of non-Arabs to its cause.
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