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Since mid-September 2024, Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed at least 2,267 people and injured 11,022 more, according to a CNN tally. [389] While in Mid-November 2024 Lebanon Ministry of Public Health reported 3,583 killed, including 231 children. [393] UNICEF confirmed that more than 200 children has been killed. [368]
The 1982 Lebanon war began on 6 June 1982, [48] when Israel invaded again for the purpose of attacking the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israeli army laid siege to Beirut. During the conflict, according to Lebanese sources, between 15,000 and 20,000 people were killed, mostly civilians.
Shortly after the onset of the Israel–Hamas war in October 2023, Hezbollah joined the conflict, citing solidarity with Palestinians. [24] On 8 October 2023, Hezbollah started firing guided rockets and artillery shells at Israeli positions in the Shebaa Farms, which it said was in solidarity with Palestinians following the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and beginning of Israeli bombing ...
A ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon appeared to be holding after it came into effect at 4 a.m. local time Wednesday (10 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday ...
The 2024 Tyre airstrikes refers to the ongoing airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force within the city of Tyre and several villages in the Tyre District in southern Lebanon.The airstrikes also struck near Roman, ancient Phoenician, and Crusader archaeological sites, causing significant concern from UNESCO for the potential damaging or destruction of cultural heritage.
Hezbollah, a proscribed terrorist group in the UK, was formed in 1982 but gained significant military power in the 2006 Lebanon War against Israel. Its stated objective is to drive Israeli forces ...
The 60-day cessation of hostilities aims to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which was adopted to end a 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006, and had kept relative calm in ...
On 23 September 2024, Israel began a series of airstrikes in Lebanon as part of the ongoing Israel–Hezbollah conflict with an operation it code-named Northern Arrows. [a] Since then, Israel's attacks have killed over 800 people, [5] injured more than 5,000, [2] [6] [7] and displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.