内容摘要："This recognition will not erase the harm that has been done, but it could ease some pain."

"This recognition will not erase the harm that has been done, but it could ease some pain."

There was relative calm until 2006, when Hezbollah militants launched a cross-border attack in which eight Israeli soldiers were killed and two others kidnapped, triggering a massive Israeli response.Israeli warplanes bombed Hezbollah strongholds in the south and in Beirut's southern suburbs, while Hezbollah fired about 4,000 rockets at Israel. More than 1,125 Lebanese, most of them civilians, died during the 34-day conflict, as well as 119 Israeli soldiers and 45 civilians.

Nasrallah's home and offices were targeted by Israel warplanes, but he survived unscathed.In 2009, Nasrallah issued a new political manifesto that sought to highlight Hezbollah's "political vision". It dropped the reference to an Islamic republic found in the 1985 document, but maintained a tough line against Israel and the US and reiterated that Hezbollah needed to keep its weapons despite a UN resolution banning them in southern Lebanon."People evolve. The whole world changed over the past 24 years. Lebanon changed. The world order changed," Nasrallah said.

Four years later, Nasrallah declared that Hezbollah was entering "a completely new phase" of its existence by sending fighters into Syria to help its Iran-backed ally, President Bashar al-Assad, put down a rebellion. "It is our battle, and we are up to it," he said.Lebanese Sunni leaders accused Hezbollah of dragging the country into Syria's war and sectarian tensions worsened dramatically.

In 2019, a deep economic crisis in Lebanon triggered mass protests against a political elite long accused of corruption, waste, mismanagement and negligence. Nasrallah initially expressed sympathy with the calls for reforms, but his attitude changed as the protesters began demanding for a complete overhaul of the political system.

On 8 October 2023 - the day after the unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen that triggered the war in Gaza - previously sporadic fighting between Hezbollah and Israel escalated.SCC, Elmbridge Borough Council and Mole Valley District Council want to see two new councils being created, one in the east and another in the west.

The other nine borough and district councils are backing a proposal for three authorities, while councils in Crawley and Reigate & Banstead have also submitted a plan which would see the two boroughs being combined.Tim Oliver, leader of SCC, said: "The recommended geography for a two unitary split of Surrey is based on evidence, with a huge number of factors taken into account."

Mr Oliver said detailed evidence showed very similar benefits and challenges between the options, but when wider factors were considered, two authorities was believed to be the better choice.The letter from leaders of four political parties and groups said there was concern that the debt owed by councils in Surrey had not been resolved and about a "lack of a commitment" by ministers to cover the costs.