Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2006 Lebanon War was a 34-day armed conflict in Lebanon, fought between Hezbollah and Israel. The war started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon.
According to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 43 [13] [14] civilians have been killed, out of which 18 were Israeli Arabs, [52] [53] while another 418 civilians were treated in hospitals, 19 of whom were seriously injured, and another 875 treated for shock. [54] $1.6 billion cost to the Israeli economy; The war cost Israel $5.3 billion
The incident prompted the start of the 2006 Lebanon War. Israel responded with airstrikes and artillery shelling of Hezbollah targets, and a naval blockade against Lebanon, followed by a ground invasion. During the war, the Hezbollah commander who organized the raid, Khalid Bazzi, was killed in an Israeli drone strike during the Battle of Bint ...
The 64-year-old was seen as a charismatic leader, though he has rarely appeared in public since the 2006 Lebanon War due to fears of assassination attempts by Israel. In recent years, he gave ...
Israel said on Saturday that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed. Hezbollah has since confirmed the news. Nasrallah had led the Iran-backed group since 1992.
During the 2006 Lebanon War, Operation Sharp and Smooth (Hebrew: מבצע חד וחלק), also known as the Baalbek operation, was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raid on a hospital in the city of Baalbek, which was being used as a Hezbollah headquarters, and a neighbourhood of the city. [4]
Roi Klein (Hebrew: רועי קליין; IPA: [ʁoˈʕi klain]; (July 10, 1975—July 26, 2006) was an Israeli major in the Golani Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces (and one of its most highly decorated soldiers) who died during the 2006 Lebanon War. [1] Klein was killed in the Battle of Bint Jbeil after jumping on a grenade to save his ...
Impose blockade on Lebanon. Israel. Israel imposes an air and sea blockade on Lebanon. Israeli fighters attack the Beirut–Damascus Highway, closing the country's main artery and further isolating Lebanon from the outside world. [16] [17] Attack at 7:45 on Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport – two main runways damaged.