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A May 2008 Child Soldiers International report stated that Hezbollah trains children for military services. [168] In 2017, the UN reported that armed groups, suspected to be Islamist militants, were recruiting children in the country.
The cell included eight members, four of whom were child suicide bombers. The cell was on the verge of committing another suicide bombing attack using the four children. According to the Shin Bet, the cell was directed and funded by the Fatah's Tanzim branch and the Lebanese group Hezbollah. [25]
In 2010, two IDF soldiers were convicted of 'excess authority' and 'conduct unbecoming' for using a 9-year-old Palestinian child as a human shield to open packages they suspected of being booby trapped during the Gaza War. Both soldiers received three months probation and a demotion in rank.
Four teenage Israeli soldiers were killed in the Hezbollah drone strike that injured dozens of troops as they sat for dinner Sunday at their camp, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel invaded Lebanon again in 2006 after Hezbollah killed three soldiers and kidnapped two others – in an effort to compel the release of Lebanese prisoners. The war lasted just over a month ...
Despite these problems, Hezbollah continued to grow in size, and in 1986, the CIA considered its military strength comparable to Lebanon's major militias. [40] The total membership of Hezbollah and closely affiliated groups grew from "several hundred" in 1983 to 2,000–3,000 in 1984 [41] and to a few thousand in 1985. [37]
Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets into Israel during the conflict, in which 1,200 people were killed in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 158 Israelis were killed, most of them soldiers. Hezbollah ...
Hezbollah's desire for Israeli prisoners that could be exchanged with Israel led to Hezbollah's abduction of Israeli soldiers, which triggered the 2006 Lebanon War. [42] The 2006 Lebanon War was a 34-day conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel. The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military.