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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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli–Lebanese conflict Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Iran–Israel proxy conflict Israel and Lebanon (regional map) Date 15 May 1948 – present (76 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Main phase: 1978–2000, 2006, 2023–present Location Israel and Lebanon Result General cease ...
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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Lebanese Civil War Part of the Cold War, Arab Cold War, Arab–Israeli conflict, Iran–Israel and Iran–Saudi proxy wars Left-to-right from top: Monument at Martyrs' Square in the city of Beirut ; the USS New Jersey firing a salvo off of the Lebanese coast; smoke seen rising from the ruins of 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.
In 1978, and again in 1981 and early 1982, the United Nations sponsored a ceasefire, and Israeli troops were withdrawn. In 1982 Israel re-invaded Lebanon following the attempted assassination of its ambassador in London, despite being aware that the attack had been carried out by the Abu Nidal faction, which was at war with Yasser Arafat's PLO.
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 ...
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 ...