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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.
The Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon [a] lasted for eighteen years, from 1982 until 2000. [1] [2] In June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon in response to attacks from southern Lebanon by Palestinian militants.
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
The ring around Beirut was closed by 13 June 1982, 7 days after the start of Israeli invasion to Lebanon. PLO and part of Syrian forces were isolated in the city. Israel hoped to complete the siege as quickly as possible; their goal all along in invading Lebanon was for a quick and decisive victory.
On 25 September 1982, Peace Now, which had been established 4 years previously, organised in Tel Aviv a protest demonstration which brought to the streets some 10% of Israel’s population, an estimated 400,000 participants. [106] They expressed their anger and demanded an investigation into Israel's part and responsibility in the massacre. [106]
Israel invaded southern Lebanon in 1982, once again chasing PLO fighters who had made the country a base. That war gave rise to Hezbollah. Hezbollah has been a U.S.-designated terrorist since 1997 ...
Shukr was part of the generation of Lebanese Shi'ites who founded Hezbollah following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and a comrade of the group's late military commander Imad Mughniyeh ...
The Bhamdoun abduction operation was a military operation carried out by Fatah, the main constituent organization of the PLO.During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, a Palestinian four-man squad infiltrated the IDF-held mountainous area north of Bhamdoun, in central Lebanon, and attacked an IDF observation point, capturing the entire IDF unit without firing a single bullet.