On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.

Nasrallah studied at the Shi'a seminary in the Beqaa Valley town of Baalbek. However after a short pause hostilities resumed.

The group's military wing -- though not any of its other divisions nor the organization as a whole -- is designated a proscribed terrorist group by the governments of the United Kingdom and Australia. Hezbollah is regarded as a legitimate resistance movement and political party throughout much of the Arab and Muslim worlds but is considered a terrorist organization by the United States the Netherlands Israel and Canada.