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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.
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).
Israel's 1978 invasion of Lebanon pushed the PLO north of the Litani River, but the PLO continued their campaign against Israel. This invasion led to the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. Israel invaded Lebanon again in 1982 and, in alliance with the Christian Lebanese Forces, forcibly expelled the PLO.
Examples include Israel’s years-long occupation of southern Lebanon that began in 1982 with the stated aim of a brief and limited mission to destroy the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO ...
The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, [22] [23] [24] began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon.The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the Israeli military, which had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border.
Though it took the form of an invasion by the Israeli military of southern Lebanon, Operation Litani arose from the long-running Israeli–Palestinian conflict.After 1968, militant groups that formed the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and other Palestinian groups established a quasi-state in southern Lebanon, using it as a base for attacks against civilian targets in northern Israel ...
In the past 24 hours, at least 95 people had been killed and 172 wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon's southern regions, the eastern Bekaa Valley, and Beirut, Lebanon's health ministry said ...
Command center of the 98th Paratroopers Division during the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. On 2 October, Israeli forces were ambushed by Hezbollah fighters in Odaisseh and forced to retreat while attempting to dismantle militant infrastructure. Six soldiers from the Egoz Unit were killed and several others were injured, including five ...