Israel says it will soon decide whether to launch an offensive in Lebanon, where it has clashed with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah for months. Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, tells FRANCE 24's Monte Francis that Hezbollah's large stores of rockets, missiles and precision munitions pose an even bigger threat to the general Israeli public than the actions of Hamas on October 7, 2023.
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        Eliza HERBERT
            
        Hezbollah poses bigger risk to Israel than Hamas on Oct. 7, analyst says
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