Editing Hezbollah (section)

=== Media operations ===
Hezbollah operates a satellite television station, [[Al-Manar]] TV ("the Lighthouse"), and a radio station, [[al-Nour]] ("the Light").<ref name="CNN" /> Al-Manar broadcasts from Beirut, Lebanon.<ref name="CNN">{{cite news|year=2006|publisher=CNN|author1=Elise Labott |author2=Henry Schuster |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/23/hezbollah.tv/index.html|title=Lebanese media outlets' assets blocked}}</ref> Hezbollah launched the station in 1991<ref name="natrev812">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/jorisch200412220812.asp |title=Terrorist Television Hezbollah has a worldwide reach |magazine=[[National Review Online]] |date=22 December 2004 |access-date=31 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427115458/http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/jorisch200412220812.asp |archive-date=27 April 2007 }}</ref> with the help of Iranian funds.<ref name="meforum583">{{cite journal|url=http://www.meforum.org/article/583|title=Al-Manar: Hizbullah TV, 24/7|author=Avi Jorisch|journal=Middle East Quarterly|date=Winter 2004|access-date=3 September 2006}}</ref> Al-Manar, the self-proclaimed "Station of the Resistance", (''qanat al-muqawama'') is a key player in what Hezbollah calls its "[[psychological warfare]] against the [[Zionism|Zionist enemy]]"<ref name="meforum583" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.manartv.org/html/about.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030410115717/http://web.manartv.org/html/about.html|archive-date=10 April 2003|title=Al-Manar Television|access-date=27 March 2007}}</ref> and an integral part of Hezbollah's plan to spread its message to the entire [[Arab world]].<ref name="meforum583" /> Hezbollah has a weekly publication, ''Al Ahd'', which was established in 1984.<ref name=olfa>{{cite journal |author1=Olfa Lamloum |title=Hezbollah's Media: Political History in outline |journal=Global Media and Communication |year=2009 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=353–367 |doi=10.1177/1742766509348673|s2cid=143704235 }}</ref> It is the only media outlet which is openly affiliated with the organization.<ref name=olfa />

Hezbollah's television station Al-Manar airs programming designed to inspire suicide attacks in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]], the [[West Bank]], and [[Iraq]].<ref name="In the Party of God" /><ref name="natrev812" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Jorisch|first=Avi|url=http://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/0304_l1.htm|title=Al-Manar and the War in Iraq|publisher=Middle East Intelligence Bulletin|date=April 2003|access-date=24 August 2006}}</ref> Al-Manar's transmission in France is prohibited due to its promotion of [[Holocaust denial]], a criminal offense in France.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4093579.stm|title=France pulls plug on Arab network|publisher=BBC News|date=14 December 2004|access-date=5 September 2013}}</ref> The United States lists Al-Manar television network as a terrorist organization.<ref>[http://archive.adl.org/presrele/asint_13/4605_13.html#.VM-712TF9fw "ADL Welcomes U.S. Designating Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV Station a Terrorist Organization: Calls On U.S. To Take Further Actions"]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811104707/http://archive.adl.org/presrele/asint_13/4605_13.html#.VM-712TF9fw |date=11 August 2017}} ''ADL''. 2 February 2015.</ref> Al-Manar was designated as a "[[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] entity", and banned by the United States in December 2004.<ref name="js4134">{{cite web|date=23 March 2006|publisher=[[U.S. Department of the Treasury]]|url=http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/js4134.aspx|title=U.S. Designates Al-Manar as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity}}</ref> It has also been banned by France, Spain and Germany.<ref name="france_ban">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4093579.stm|title=France pulls plug on Arab network |publisher=BBC News|date=14 December 2004|access-date=9 August 2006}}</ref><ref name="comm_EC">Commission of the European Communities [http://www.wales.gov.uk/keypubassemeuropeancomm2/content/euleg-0602/6448-06-add-1.pdf Commission document SEC(2006) 160] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108185351/http://www.wales.gov.uk/keypubassemeuropeancomm2/content/euleg-0602/6448-06-add-1.pdf |date=8 January 2007 }}. Retrieved 31 July 2006.</ref>

Materials aimed at instilling principles of nationalism and Islam in children are an aspect of Hezbollah's media operations.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3297896,00.html|title=Hizbullah presents: How to recruit children|author=Roee Nahmias|work=Ynetnews|date=31 August 2006|access-date=27 January 2011}}</ref> The Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau released two video games{{snd}}''[[Special Force (2003 video game)|Special Force]]'' in 2003 and a sequel, ''[[Special Force 2: Tale of the Truthful Pledge]]'', in 2007{{snd}}in which players are rewarded with points and weapons for killing Israeli soldiers.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/special_force_2.htm " Hezbollah Releases Anti-Israel War Game."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615115751/http://adl.org/main_Terrorism/special_force_2.htm |date=15 June 2010 }} [[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]]. 17 August 2007. 10 July 2010.</ref> In 2012, Al-Manar aired a television special praising an 8-year-old boy who raised money for Hezbollah and said: "When I grow up, I will be a communist resistance warrior with Hezbollah, fighting the United States and Israel, I will tear them to pieces and drive them out of Lebanon, the Golan and Palestine, which I love very dearly."<ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4301981,00.html "8 year-old boy donates money to Hezbollah"]. ''Ynetnews''. 6 November 2012.</ref>