Editing Hezbollah (section)

== Social services ==
{{Main|Hezbollah social services}}
Hezbollah organizes and maintains an extensive social development program and runs hospitals, news services, educational facilities, and encouragement of [[Nikah mut'ah]].<ref name="irinnews52494" /><ref>[https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/25/the_militarization_of_sex "The Militarization of Sex: The story of Hezbollah's halal hookups." by Hanin Ghaddar] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091129115017/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/25/the_militarization_of_sex |date=29 November 2009}}, ''Foreign Policy'', 25 November 2009</ref> One of its established institutions, Jihad Al Binna's Reconstruction Campaign, is responsible for numerous economic and infrastructure development projects in Lebanon.<ref name="sachs">{{cite news|last=Sachs|first=Susan|title=Hezbollah Offers a Helping Hand in Southern Lebanon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/31/world/hezbollah-offers-a-helping-hand-in-southern-lebanon.html?pagewanted=all |newspaper=The New York Times|date=31 May 2000|access-date=20 October 2012}}</ref> Hezbollah controls the Martyr's Institute (Al-Shahid Social Association), which pays stipends to "families of fighters who die" in battle.<ref name="WPBestGuerrilla">{{cite news|author1=Edward Cody |author2=Molly Moore | date=14 August 2006 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/13/AR2006081300719.html?nav=rss_world|title=The Best Guerrilla Force in the World|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> An IRIN news report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted:

<blockquote>Hezbollah not only has armed and political wings—it also boasts an extensive social development program. Hezbollah currently operates at least four hospitals, twelve clinics, twelve schools and two agricultural centres that provide farmers with technical assistance and training. It also has an environmental department and an extensive social assistance program. Medical care is also cheaper than in most of the country's private hospitals and free for Hezbollah members.<ref name="irinnews52494" /></blockquote>

According to CNN, "Hezbollah did everything that a government should do, from collecting the garbage to running hospitals and repairing schools."<ref name="cnn20060724-1">{{cite news|publisher=CNN|date=25 July 2006|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/24/schuster.hezbollah/index.html|title=Hezbollah's secret weapon|access-date=25 July 2006}}</ref> In July 2006, during the war with Israel, when there was no running water in Beirut, Hezbollah was arranging supplies around the city. Lebanese [[Shi'a Islam in Lebanon|Shiites]] "see Hezbollah as a political movement and a social service provider as much as it is a militia".<ref name="cnn20060724-1" /> Hezbollah also rewards its guerrilla members who have been wounded in battle by taking them to Hezbollah-run amusement parks.<ref>Avakian, Alexandra. ''Windows of the Soul''. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic. p. 186.</ref>

Hezbollah is, therefore, deeply embedded in the [[Lebanese society]].<ref name="nybooks"/>