It is “a terrible sequence which will pave the way for other sequences of violence”, estimates the president of iReMMO, the Institute for Mediterranean Middle East Research and Studies, on Saturday on franceinfo. The leader of Hezbollah died in an Israeli strike on Friday in Lebanon.
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“It is clear that Hezbollah will recharge its batteries,” says Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, president of iReMMO, the Mediterranean Middle East Research and Studies Institute, guest of franceinfo on Saturday September 28. Earlier today, the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, was confirmed after an Israeli strike in south Beirut.
“No matter how important a leader is, the story will continue with a new leader,” assures Jean-Paul Chagnollaud. According to the president of iReMMO, Hezbollah is “an actor very rooted in the Lebanese population”, “there are many members in the organization”. The question now is to know “what are its military means, what is the state of its organization or its disorganization”.
Jean-Paul Chagnollaud recalls that the current situation in Lebanon is the result of a “articulation of conflicts”. “Everything started from Gaza”, “if there had been a ceasefire in Gaza that the Americans wanted, that the international community wanted, that the United Nations wanted, there would not have been what it just happened in Lebanon, we would be in a diplomatic phase.” he emphasizes before insisting that “the fundamental political problems are not resolved at all.”
“Israel is in a position of strength”according to him. The Hebrew State “displays a desire to establish a balance of power to both break Hezbollah and annex the West Bank.” For him, this sequence will not be “only a terrible sequence which will prepare other sequences of violence”.