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The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, [20] [21] [22] began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. The Israelis sought to end Palestinian attacks from Lebanon , destroy the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the country, and install a pro-Israel Maronite ...
The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, [4] is a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various militias and militants acting from within Lebanon. The conflict peaked in the 1980s, during the Lebanese Civil War. Israel occupied Southern Lebanon ...
4,000–5,000 Lebanese civilians killed [1] During the 1982 Lebanon War, the city of Beirut was besieged by Israel following the breakdown of the ceasefire that had been imposed by the United Nations amidst the Lebanese Civil War. Beginning in mid-June, the two-month-long siege resulted in the expulsion of the Palestinian Liberation ...
Israel ended the ceasefire after an assassination attempt on the Israeli Ambassador in Britain, Shlomo Argov, in mid-1982 (which was made by Abu Nidal's organization that was ostracized from the PLO). This led Israel to invade Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War on June 6, 1982 with the aim to protect the North of Israel from terrorist attacks. IDF ...
The Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon[a] formally began in 1985 and ended in 2000 as part of the South Lebanon conflict. In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon in response to a spate of attacks carried out from Lebanese territory by Palestinian militants, triggering the 1982 Lebanon War. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and allied Christian ...
The 1978 South Lebanon conflict, also called the First Israeli invasion of Lebanon[6][7] and codenamed Operation Litani by Israel, began when Israel invaded southern Lebanon up to the Litani River in March 1978. It was in response to the Coastal Road massacre near Tel Aviv by Lebanon -based Palestinian militants.
Israeli invasion of Lebanon may refer to any of several Israeli military campaigns in the Israeli-Lebanese conflict: 1978 South Lebanon conflict, an invasion of Lebanon up to the Litani River carried out by the Israel Defense Forces. 1982 Lebanon War, Israel Defense Forces invasion of southern Lebanon. Operation Accountability, week-long attack ...
Between 1948 and 1997, 20,093 [3] Israeli soldiers were killed in combat, 75,000 Israelis were wounded, and nearly 100,000 [4] Israelis were considered disabled army veterans. On the other hand, in 2010 Yom Hazikaron, Israel honored the memory of 22,684 Israeli soldiers and pre-Israeli Palestinian Jews killed since 1860 in the line of duty for ...