On June 22, a photo was published on social media showing a poster with Nasrallah’s picture hanging on the ruins of a building in Kfar Kela in southern Lebanon. The banner read: “We and our homes and children are for you, the leader of the resistance.”
It appears that this is a new photo, which was published for the first time on Saturday, June 22, apparently following an attack by the IDF on several houses in Kfar Kela.
It is not clear who is responsible for hanging the poster or the source of the image. It is important to emphasize that despite the enormous damage that Hezbollah’s human shield tactics are causing to the civil infrastructure in the Shia villages in southern Lebanon, with an emphasis on the villages that are near the border with Israel (such as Kfar Kela), we have so far not found any public criticism or protest against Hezbollah from the local Shiites in particular or from the Hezbollah Shia “Base” in general.
Hezbollah’s Shiite “base” is actually a captive audience. There are three main reasons for this:
A. Religious ideology – education and indoctrination (over 90% of the education subjects in Hezbollah’s independent education system deal with Shia, martyrdom, and jihad).
B. Dependence on the alternative civil services provided by Hezbollah through the executive council (economic, social, health services, etc.).
C. Fear – the fear of Hezbollah’s reaction (with an emphasis on its security unit) against its opponents, especially those from the Shia community. As far as Hezbollah is concerned, the Shiite dissident has no right to exist in the literal sense of the word.
