External pressures keeping Hezbollah from striking central Israel, researchers say
Voice of America
A handout image released by the Hezbollah military media press office on Sept. 25, 2024, shows a "Qader 1" ballistic missile at an undisclosed location. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2024.
Lebanon's Hezbollah militia has largely refrained from firing rockets at central Israel after a week of suffering the worst blows in its 11-month conflict with the nation, some observers say, as the group grapples with external pressures and its desire to keep the fighting at a low level.
An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as Kashmiris queue up at a polling station to cast their vote during the second phase of assembly elections, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, Sept. 25, 2024. (Wasim Nabi for VOA) Residents of Faqir Gujri, a remote village in Indian-administered Kashmir, queued for hours at their polling station to cast their votes, Sept. 25, 2024. (Wasim Nabi for VOA)
A portrait of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah sits amid destruction in a area targeted overnight by Israeli airstrikes in Saksakiyeh on Sept. 26, 2024. An emergency worker cuts concrete blocks as he searches for survivors at the scene of an Israeli airstrike in the town of Maisara, north of Beirut, Sept. 25, 2024.