• October 28, 2020: The Czech Republic parliament labeled Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization.

On October 28, 2020, the Czech Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Prague’s parliament, voted in a non-binding resolution to create a list of terror organizations and include Hezbollah, in its entirety, on that list. The resolution stated that Hezbollah is a “terrorist organization that significantly destabilizes the Middle East region and, through its global network, also threatens all democracies.” It rejected the “misleading division of this organization into military and political parts, as this organization acts as an internally interlinked structure.” The lawmakers called on the government in Prague — traditionally one of Israel’s staunchest allies in Europe — to “push for the abandonment of the concept of dividing Hezbollah into two parts at .U.E.U. level and its full inclusion in the list of terrorist organizations.” They further urged the government to “promote at international level the suppression of Hezbollah’s influence in the world in order to increase international security.”

Hezbollah has operated on Czech soil. In 2014, a Hezbollah arms dealer named Ali Fayad was arrested in the Czech Republic. In response, Hezbollah affiliates kidnapped five Czech citizens in Lebanon to secure Fayyad’s release. In 2018, Czech authorities shut down several servers in the Czech Republic shut down after discovering that Hezbollah used them to break into networks and computers around the world for extortion and data theft