How much support does Hezbollah have among the population of Lebanon? And could the flow of refugees lead to tensions?

The wave of attacks that Israel carried out on Lebanon, especially yesterday, has triggered a flow of tens of thousands of refugees from the south to the north.

Here and there, there are fears that this could cause new tensions in Lebanon. The country, which was torn apart by civil war in the 1970s and 1980s, is small but very diverse, a patchwork of (religious) population groups.

The largely Shiite south, which is mainly bombarded by Israel, is Hezbollah’s power base, but elsewhere in the country many people often want nothing to do with Hezbollah.