⚔Siege of Iqlim al-Tuffah

In July 1990 fighting resumed between the Amal Movement and Hezbollah in Iqlim al-Tuffah (Jbaa, Ain Bouswar, Arabsalim and the area between the South and the West Bekaa) after the truce of January 1989, which had settled nothing. The Amal Movement, under cover of the Syrian forces deployed around it, imposed a siege on the party's positions in the Iqlim that lasted about four months: roads and supplies were cut, the mountains became fixed front lines, hundreds were killed and wounded on both sides and the villagers were displaced. This is the "siege of Iqlim al-Tuffah" that stayed in both sides' memory as the harshest chapter of the "war of brothers". The Damascus agreement of 5 November 1990, under Syrian–Iranian sponsorship, ended it: the siege lifted, the Syrian army and security forces deployed in the Iqlim, prisoners and bodies exchanged, and Hezbollah's right to resistance action in the South recognised, in an arrangement that paved the way for the division of roles between the movement and the party after Taif.