Crowds in Beirut Suburbs Mourn Hezbollah Commander Slain by Israel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : ISRAEL TARGETS HEZBOLLAH'S NEXT GENERATION
51% : Israel's advanced capabilities have worried Hezbollah's supporters.
49% : ISRAEL KEEPS UP
49% : " Israel has also continued to gather intelligence on Hezbollah's activities using surveillance drones, a Lebanese security source said.
47% : Malek Ayoub, a retired military analyst, told Hezbollah's Al Manar television station on Monday that Israel could be using facial recognition technology to identify Hezbollah figures from the station's coverage of Tabtabai's funeral.
46% : A Lebanese security source said Israel now appeared to be targeting the group's "next generation" after having killed most of the group's founding leadership.
46% : SURVEILLANCE Israel has sustained near-daily strikes on Lebanon since the truce, targeting what it says are Hezbollah arms depots, fighters and efforts by the group to rebuild.
45% : During that war, Israel killed Hezbollah's then-leader Hassan Nasrallah, his expected successor and much of the group's top military brass.
45% : "Artificial intelligence can identify any of those faces to build Israel's bank of targets," Ayoub said.
43% : The targeted assassination by Israel - a type of operation that had become rarer since a ceasefire was agreed last year - came a day after Lebanon marked its Independence Day and deepened fears of a renewed Israeli escalation.
40% : "Israel is peeling them off layer by layer," said a Western diplomat who works on Lebanon.
33% : As the mass funeral snaked its way through neighbourhoods in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs on Monday, chants rang out against Israel and the United States.
26% : "Anyone who raises his hand against Israel -- his hand will be cut off," said Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.

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