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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 planes have been reported attacking a convoy fleeing southern Lebanon, causing at least 10 casualties. More than 100 civilian vehicles carrying Lebanese soldiers and police were hit near Chtaura on the west side of the Bekaa Valley [19] The Israeli army confirmed it had attacked the convoy: "The attack was carried out based on a ...
Casualties of the 2006 Lebanon War; ... 2006 Israeli reserve soldiers' protest; Israeli Special Forces' Operations in 2006; J. Jiyeh Power Station oil spill; K. Roi ...
Lebanese officials reported four civilian deaths from Israeli missile strikes in south Lebanon, according to the AP. As of mid-3 August 642 Lebanese civilians and soldiers have died and 2,303 have been wounded in the three-week-old Israeli military offensive against the Hezbollah militia, according to Lebanon's Internal Security Forces.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), "Flooding South Lebanon", Israel's Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006, February 2008; Matthews, Matt M., "We Were Caught Unprepared: The 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War", The Long War Series Occasional Paper 26, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center Combat Studies Institute Press Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2006
The South Lebanon conflict was an armed conflict that took place in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon from 1982 [1] or 1985 [citation needed] until Israel's withdrawal in 2000. Hezbollah , along with other Shia Muslim and left-wing guerrillas, fought against Israel and its ally, the Catholic Christian -dominated South Lebanon Army (SLA).