Exclusive: How Hezbollah rebuilt while its enemies declared it dead

Despite declarations from Israel, the US, and Lebanon that Hezbollah was broken after the 2024 conflict, the Lebanese armed movement used the subsequent ceasefire to rebuild its capabilities. Sources familiar with the group's recovery state that reconstruction began immediately after the ceasefire, viewing it as an operational interval before an inevitable next round of fighting. Hezbollah believed Israel paused hostilities because it thought the group was sufficiently weakened and that further conflict would incur heavy Israeli losses. This period allowed the organization to reorganize and prepare for the current war with Israel, which it entered in response to the US-Israeli conflict with Iran.