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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.
Map showing some of the Israeli localities attacked by rockets fired from Lebanese soil as of Monday 7 August. As part of the Hezbollah rocket campaign that began in July, they fired rockets into all major cities of northern Israel including Haifa, Hadera, Nazareth, Nazareth Illit, Tiberias, Nahariya, Safed, Afula, [11] Kiryat Shmona, Beit She'an, Karmiel, and Maalot, and dozens of kibbutzim ...
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]
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 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid was a cross-border attack carried out by Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants on an Israeli military patrol on 12 July 2006 on Israeli territory. Using rockets fired on several Israeli towns as a diversion, Hezbollah militants crossed from Lebanon into Israel [ 3 ] and ambushed two Israeli Army vehicles ...
Across Lebanon fear is gripping people who say they don’t want a repeat of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war or worse — a situation like Gaza where the death toll has surpassed 41,000.
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; Kober, Avi (2008).
The small Christian village of about 1,500 is only a few miles from Lebanon’s border with Israel — an island in an ocean of mostly ... the church’s roof during the last major war in 2006.