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$1.6 billion cost to the Israeli economy; The war cost Israel $5.3 billion; Northern Israeli businesses lost $1.4 billion; Estimated compensation to be given to the population of northern Israel is $335.4 million; Israel plans to given $460 million to local governments and emergency services in northern Israel; 630 factories in Israel were closed
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.
The 2006 Ghaziyeh airstrikes also referred to as the 2006 Ghaziyeh massacre [1] were two sequential attacks by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on the city of Ghaziyeh in Lebanon on August 7, and August 8, 2006. The attacks took place during the 2006 Lebanon War. In the first attack on August 7, the IAF bombed a building killing 16 people. [2]
Israeli General Dan Halutz threatened to "turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years" [18] in a reference to the destruction Lebanon suffered in its bloody civil war. Israeli troops later bombed a main road in the south of Lebanon leaving two civilians dead, and a series of air-raids followed during the night which also targeted the civilian ...
The Tyre raid was a night mission by the Israel Defense Forces naval commando unit, Shayetet 13, in Tyre, South Lebanon, on August 5, 2006. The target was an apartment building, allegedly housing Hezbollah leaders responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera a day earlier. The entire operation lasted 1 hour and 45 minutes. [4]
Lebanon's population is 3,874,050.Their annual military expenditures are $540.6 million, which is 3.1% (2004) of GDP.Manpower fit for military service: males age 18-49 (821,762) and females age 18-49 (865,770) (2005 est.) United Nations Resolution 1559 calls for Hezbollah to be disarmed and the Lebanese Army to be deployed to southern Lebanon, which has not been implemented. [1]
Israel announces deaths of 8 soldiers in Lebanon. ... conflict between the two countries since its 34-day war with Hezbollah in 2006. That war ended partly due to Israeli troops suffering steep ...
34 Days: Israel, Hezbollah, and the War in Lebanon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Human Rights Watch (HRW), "Why They Died", Civilian Casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 War, September 2007; Human Rights Watch (HRW), "Flooding South Lebanon", Israel's Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006, February 2008; Kober, Avi (2008).