• mrdown@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The official government been ignoring the south since independence giving hezbollah the opportunity to build a state within a state building schools, hospital etc

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      Yeah. Hezbollah typically gets represented in international news more for its militia, but the locals experience it more as a political party/machine running a lot of local government.