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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.
Lebanon. Lebanon proposed changes to a draft U.N. resolution aimed at halting the Israel-Hezbollah conflict that left some 800 people dead. Lebanon's government agreed to dispatch 15,000 troops to its southern border as part of a peace agreement if Israeli troops leave the country, a government spokesman said.
On October 31, 2006, eight Israeli F-15s flew over many areas of Lebanon, including Beirut. [ 177 ] [ 178 ] The IAF jets also flew over a French peacekeeper position in Lebanon. According to the French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie , the planes came in at what was interpreted as an attack position, and the peacekeepers were "seconds ...
11:07, 16 July 2006: 818 × 726 (288 KB) Mobius: oops, forgot West Bank..fixed shading: 10:58, 16 July 2006: 818 × 726 (284 KB) Mobius: Map of Combat Regions in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Crisis. The Rregion of conflict is marked in red, while the Israeli naval blockade is highlighted in yellow. Based off of maps from CIA World Factbook.
The UN resolution envisages sending a force of up to 15,000 to south Lebanon by 4 November 2006 to help a similar number of Lebanese troops police a weapons-free border zone. [37] Syria. Syrian leaders have been angered by an Israeli demand for international troops to deploy on the Lebanese-Syrian border to stop arms smuggling to Hezbollah. [37 ...
The Israeli military said early that half the area south of the Litani had already been turned over to U.N. Interim Forces in Lebanon, which currently has about 2,000 troops in southern Lebanon. Today's transfer was "conditional on the reinforcement of UNIFIL and the ability of the Lebanese Army to take effective control of the area," the ...
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: Reuters has withdrawn 920 photographs by a Lebanese photographer after a review of his work showed that he had changed two images from the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. , Lebanon's government meets today, to decide to send the Lebanese army to the southern end of the country, according to political sources. It ...
Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Dan Gillerman said, however, that the statement was "fair and balanced", and reiterated his claim that Israel has been "very cautious" in choosing its targets in Lebanon. "This is a war which is going on", he said. "War is an ugly thing, and during war, mistakes and tragedies do happen." [109]