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[40] [41] The border between Israel and Lebanon was at this time was nicknamed the Good Fence. Fearing loss of commercial access to the port of Beirut, in June 1976 Syria intervened in the civil war to support the Maronite dominated government, [42] and by October had 40,000 troops stationed within Lebanon. Map showing power balance in Lebanon ...
Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon; Shebaa Farms conflict (2000–2006) Hezbollah Israel: Inconclusive. Ended with the 2006 Lebanon War; Israel continues to control the Shebaa Farms; July War (2006) Hezbollah Israel: Stalemate. The LAF introduced into South Lebanon; Fatah al-Islam Rebellion (2007) Lebanon: Fatah al-Islam Jund al-Sham ...
A map of Southern Lebanon, featuring the Blue Line, UNIFIL zone, and Litani River. During the evacuation in the first Lebanon war, the command of the SLA was delivered into the hands of Antoine Lahad, who demanded and received Israeli permission to hold the Jezzine zone north of the strip. In the first years after the IDF withdrawal from the ...
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 ...
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.
This is a list of wars and other major military engagements involving Israel.Since its declaration of independence in May 1948, the State of Israel has fought various wars with its neighbouring Arab states, two major Palestinian Arab uprisings known as the First Intifada and the Second Intifada (see Israeli–Palestinian conflict), and a broad series of other armed engagements rooted in the ...
On 14 March 1978, Israel launched Operation Litani, after the Coastal Road Massacre. Its stated goals were to push Palestinian militant groups, particularly the PLO, away from the border with Israel, and to bolster Israel's ally at the time, the South Lebanon Army, because of the attacks against Lebanese Christians and Jews and because of the relentless shelling into northern Israel.
April 1979 – The Israeli developed and produced battle tank Merkava was first introduced to the IDF forces. 22 March – The Knesset approves the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. 26 March – In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty. Egypt thus ...