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Following increased attacks in northern Israel and the attempted assassination of Israeli diplomat Shlomo Argov, Israel invaded Lebanon to displace the PLO from along its border, triggering the 1982 Lebanon War. By 1985, Israel had withdrawn to a front designated as a "Security Zone" in Southern Lebanon, where it retained its forces to fight ...
[18] [19] The capturing of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah ignited the 2006 Lebanon War, which saw cross-border attacks and another Israeli invasion of the south. [20] Its ceasefire called for the disarmament of Hezbollah and the respecting of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon by Israel. Hostilities were suspended on 8 ...
The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants in Nahariya, Israel on 22 April 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar , used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW ...
1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon; Hundred Days' War (part of the Lebanese Civil War) 1978 South Lebanon conflict (also known as Operation Litani, part of the Lebanese Civil War) Battle of Zahleh (part of the Lebanese Civil War) Mountain War (part of the Lebanese Civil War) War of the Camps (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.
Sadat was assassinated in October 1981, a scant three years after that historic parley. Regional tensions rose again, and yet another war — this one between Israel and Lebanon — broke out in 1982.
Israel–Lebanon relations have experienced ups and downs since their establishment in the 1940s. Lebanon did take part in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War against Israel, but Lebanon was the first Arab League nation to signal a desire for an armistice treaty with Israel in 1949.
Israel’s apparently impending ground incursion into Lebanon will drive home a new strategic reality of a year of war — the once-mighty US is powerless to rein in its ally or to influence other ...