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According to various media, between 1,000 and 1,200 people are reported dead. Additionally, there were between 480 and 1,100 people wounded, and over 1,000,000 were temporarily made refugees, with an unknown number of missing civilians in the south.
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]
Map of conflict as of July 14, 2006. In yellow is the Israeli blockade, in the red area regions of active conflict. The Israeli offensive into Lebanon continues, and for the first time the offices of Hezbollah are bombed. Hezbollah declares "open war". [33] [44]
Pages in category "2006 Lebanon War" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. ... Casualties of the 2006 Lebanon War;
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; Matthews, Matt M.,
Lebanon’s history of sectarian conflict dates back generations. But political tension between some Christians and Shiite Muslims was exacerbated by the country’s 15-year communal civil war ...
The 2006 Qana airstrike (also referred to as the 2006 Qana massacre [3] [4] or the second Qana massacre [5] [6]) was an airstrike carried out by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a three-story [7] building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War. The strike killed ...