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The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, [ 4 ] is a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon -based paramilitary groups, and sometimes Syria. The conflict peaked during the Lebanese Civil War. In response to Palestinian attacks from Lebanon, Israel invaded in 1978 and again in 1982.
Exchange of strikes between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been occurring along the Israel–Lebanon border and in Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights since 8 October 2023. It is currently the largest escalation of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict to have occurred since the 2006 Lebanon War, and part of the spillover ...
Over 96,000 people in Israel [44] and over 111,000 in Lebanon have been displaced. [45] As of 24 August 2024, there were 564 confirmed deaths in Lebanon, including 133 civilians. [45] Israel and Hezbollah have maintained their attacks at a level that causes harm without escalating into a full-scale war. [46]
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 have displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.
Israel – Lebanon relations have experienced ups and downs since their establishment in the 1940s. Lebanon did take part in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War against Israel, but Lebanon was the first Arab League nation to signal a desire for an armistice treaty with Israel in 1949. Lebanon did not participate in the Six-Day War in 1967, nor the Yom ...
Shellings. On 6 April 2023, dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, wounding 3 Israeli civilians. [2] The Israel Defense Forces has said that it has intercepted 25 rockets fired from Lebanon. [2] Warning sirens had sounded in the town of Shlomi and in Betzet in northern Israel. [2]
Hezbollah–Israel conflict. Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militant organization that was established in Lebanon in 1985, has been involved in a long-running conflict with Israel as part of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict and the Israeli–Lebanese conflict.
1 Syrian national and 1 Israeli civilian injured. On 25 August 2024, Israel struck targets in southern Lebanon, followed by strikes by Hezbollah. [2][3][4] Israel framed its strikes as preemptive. According to Lebanese officials, the Israeli military struck forty locations in southern Lebanon with about 100 fighter jets.