A delicate dance in northern Israel

A cardboard cutout depicting Abbas al-Musawi, a co-founder and former leader of Hezbollah, along a road near Baalbeck in Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah have their reasons for calibrating their attacks to avoid a regional conflict. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

SET to a peppy electronic soundtrack, a recent video clip showed what the Hezbollah military said was a missile-firing drone, a new weapon in its arsenal as it ratchets up its strikes on Israel.

Flaunting a new weapon is the type of muscle flexing that Hassan Nasrallah, the organisation’s elusive leader, crows about.