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Initially, Nasrallah's condition was uncertain, [6] but on 28 September 2024, the IDF confirmed his death, a claim later confirmed by Hezbollah. [7] The attack resulted in at least six fatalities and over 91 injuries. [8] Ali Karaki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, along with other senior commanders, were also killed in the ...
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 700 people, [6] injured more than 5,000, [7] [8] [9] and displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.
As of 22 September 2024, the death toll from the attacks was 42, [7] including at least 12 civilian deaths. [102] More than 3,500 people were injured. [7] It has been reported that 1,500 Hezbollah fighters were taken out of action due to injuries, with many blinded or having lost their hands. [103]
The IDF said that at least 10 Hezbollah commanders were killed in the airstrike in Beirut alongside Ibrahim Aqil, [34] who was holding a meeting at the basement of the building at the time of the strike. [32] Hezbollah later confirmed the deaths of 15 of its members in the airstrike, including Aqil and Ahmed Wehbe. [35]
The salvage excavations after 1993 have yielded new insights into the layout and history of this period of Beirut's history. Public architecture included several areas and buildings. [16] Mid-1st-century coins from Berytus bear the head of Tyche, goddess of fortune; [17] on the reverse, the city's symbol appears: a dolphin entwines an anchor.
22,000. The Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon was a multi-sided armed conflict initiated by Palestinian militants against Israel in 1968 and against Lebanese Christian militias in the mid-1970s. It served as a major catalyst for the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975.
The Lebanese Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities [5] and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.
truck bombed [54] [55] "U.S. Marine barracks, on October 23, 1983, ... killing 241 American military personnel stationed in Beirut as past of a peace-keeping force. A separate attack against the French military compound in Beirut [killed] 58." [53] The truck that destroyed the American barracks was "rigged with 12,000 pounds of TNT." [56