Bint Jbeil and the shifting history of southern Lebanon

Since then, the Shiite community underwent a major transformation with the emergence of Hezbollah and its Iranian ideology, which reshaped patterns of thought and behavior and introduced new concepts into Shiite life based on strict religious commitment and the idea of jihad and the reward of paradise. This transformation enabled Hezbollah to attract young people into its “sacred” struggle, achieving its first major accomplishment with the withdrawal in 2000, and later its resilience in the July 2006 war, which it considered a major victory.