Hezbollah European Union. After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 in support of the Free Lebanon State, Israel occupied a strip of south Lebanon, which was controlled by the South Lebanon Army (SLA), a Lebanese Christian militia supported by Israel. Hezbollah was founded in the early 1980s as part of an Iranian effort to aggregate a variety of militant Lebanese Shi'a groups into a unified organization. Hezbollah acts as a proxy for Iran in the ongoing Iran–Israel proxy conflict. Hezbollah was conceived by Muslim clerics and funded by Iran primarily to harass the Israeli occupation. Its leaders were followers of
Flag of Hezbollah Flag of Hezbollah The flag of Hezbollah, while sometimes found in different colours, is usually composed of the green logo of the Shi'a political/military organization Hezbollah, upon a yellow background with text above and below the logo in red (or sometimes green). The logo itself is a stylized representation of the Arabic words "ḥizbu-llāh" (meaning "Party of God") in Kufic script. The first letter of "Allah" reaches up to grasp a stylized assault rifle, which combines elements of the H&K G3 battle rifle and the AK-47 assault rifle. The logo also incorporates several other objects, namely a globe, a book,