"Hezbollah is committed to the ceasefire agreement, even though Israel has not respected this commitment over the past period," the spokesperson said. "It continues to kill, assassinate, and attack areas, including entering border villages and remaining at the five points."

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was long considered Iran’s first line of defense in case of a war with Israel.

The group is one of the most powerful and shadowy arms of Iran’s military, and it has long been on the front line of a shadow conflict with Israel.

"Our support for Gaza and our defense of our country against the Zionist aggression against it has continued," a Houthi source told Newsweek.

For Israel, the objective was to degrade Iran’s nuclear capabilities and demonstrate unequivocally that any threat to its existence would be met with overwhelming force. For Iran, retaliation served not only as a defence of national pride but also as a signal to regional allies and adversaries alike that it remains capable of responding to aggression.

Israel and Iran have opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict. Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday that set off explosions in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Israel's strikes on Iran's nuclear and military sites have pushed the long-simmering rivalry into open warfare, with Tehran retaliating and hitting key Israeli cities. With the US trying to balance diplomacy and deterrence,

Iran’s intelligence chief and other key senior officials were killed in an Israeli airstrike as they attended a meeting together, according to Israeli officials. Mohammed Kazemi, the elite Islamic

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was long considered Iran’s first line of defense in case of a war with Israel

Trump told ABC News that Iran wanted to make a deal and indicated something like the Israel strikes would accelerate that. "Something like this had to happen because I think even