On 27 September, Israel levelled several high-rise apartment buildings in the Lebanese capital. Felt dozens of kilometres away, these Israeli airstrikes produced the largest explosions in Beirut since the current wave of Hezbollah-Israel hostilities began almost a year ago. By targeting Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and other leaders in the Lebanese party, Tel Aviv’s military strikes dangerously escalated the region’s conflict dynamics. The following day, Hezbollah confirmed Israel’s killing of Nasrallah. The group announced that Nasrallah had “joined his great, immortal marty…