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21 October 1948Hula massacre
24 February 1949The Arab defeat in the 1948 warOn 24 February 1949 Egypt signed the first of the Rhodes armistice agreements with Israel, followed by Lebanon (23…
23 March 1949Lebanon–Israel armistice signed at NaqouraOn 23 March 1949 the armistice agreement between Lebanon and Israel was signed at Ras al-Naqoura under United Nations…
29 October 1956The Tripartite Aggression on EgyptOn 29 October 1956 Israel attacked Sinai, and France and Britain followed with a landing at Port Said to retake the…
28 December 1968Israeli raid on Beirut airportOn the night of 28 December 1968 Israeli helicopters landed commandos at Beirut airport and destroyed 13 civilian…
12 May 1969Israeli attack on the South
1 January 1970Capture of an Israeli soldier
2 January 1970Attack on Kfar Kila
6 January 1970The Communist Party announces the "Popular Guard" to defend southern villages
8 May 1970Avivim school-bus attack launched from Lebanon
10 July 1970Attempt on Wadie Haddad
15 July 1970Attempt on George Habash
25 February 1972Four-day Israeli incursion into the south
21 June 1972Israeli ambush in South Lebanon
8 July 1972Assassination of Ghassan KanafaniOn 8 July 1972 the novelist and Popular Front spokesman Ghassan Kanafani and his niece were killed by a bomb in his car…
8 September 1972Israeli air raids on Syria and LebanonIsraeli aircraft bombed ten PLO bases in Syria and Lebanon in reply to the Munich operation. The raids' victims reached…
16 September 1972Israeli incursion into the SouthOn 16 September 1972, after the Munich operation, Israeli forces pushed into South Lebanon for days against the…
10 April 1973The Verdun operationOn the night of 10 April 1973 Israeli commandos landed in Beirut (Operation "Spring of Youth") and assassinated three…
11 July 1973Mossad operation in Tripoli
11 April 1974Kiryat Shmona attack from Lebanon
12 April 1974Israeli reprisal raids on southern villages after Kiryat Shmona
15 May 1974The Ma'alot operationOn 15 May 1974, the anniversary of the Nakba, three members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine…
16 May 1974Bombing of the Nabatieh camp after Maalot
1 January 1976Bashir Gemayel begins secret visits to IsraelDuring 1976 Bachir Gemayel began a series of secret visits to Israel in which he met Peres and the army commanders to…
10 March 1976Fedayeen move into Khiyam and its barracksOn 10 March 1976, two days after Lieutenant Ahmad al-Khatib and the "Arab Army of Lebanon" took the southern barracks…
March 1976First Kataeb contact with Israel: Abu Khalil's trip
9 April 1976Israel's red lines
15 July 1976Israel's "Good Fence" policy opens the border to southern villagersIn mid-July 1976 Israel launched the "Good Fence" policy by opening crossings at Rmeish and Kfar Kila and then the…
12 August 1976Tel al-Zaatar massacreCarried out by the Tigers and the right, with the cooperation of the Syrian and Lebanese armies and the presence of an…
17 February 1977Haddad's militia takes Khiyam
7 April 1977The fedayeen retake Khiyam
16 September 1977Renewed fighting over Khiyam
11 March 1978The Coastal Road operation (Dalal Mughrabi)On 11 March 1978 a Fatah group that had set out by sea from Lebanon landed on a beach near Haifa under the command of…
14 March 1978The Litani invasionOn 14 March 1978 Israel invaded South Lebanon up to the Litani with some 25,000 troops; about a thousand were killed…
14 March 1978Occupation of KhiyamThe collaborator Saad Haddad's militia entered the town for good and imposed full control over it after the start of…
17 March 1978Khiyam massacreMembers of the collaborator Saad Haddad's militia carried out a large massacre there, killing 61 elderly and infirm…
19 March 1978Resolution 425The adoption of Resolution 425 and the deployment of the United Nations in the South.
23 March 1978UNIFIL arrives at NaqouraOn 23 March 1978 the first units of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon arrived in application of Resolution…
19 April 1978Haddad's militia shells UNIFIL headquarters
9 May 1978Kaukaba clash between the Norwegian battalion and the fedayeen
13 June 1978Ehden massacreThe killing of Tony Suleiman Frangieh with his family by the Lebanese Forces (Samir Geagea); the idea was an Israeli…
13 June 1978Handover of the border strip to Saad Haddad's militiaOn 13 June 1978 Israel completed its withdrawal from the South but handed the border strip to the collaborator Saad…
22 January 1979Assassination of Abu Hassan SalamehOn 22 January 1979 the Mossad assassinated Ali Hassan Salameh, "the Red Prince", commander of Force 17, head of…
18 April 1979The "State of Free Lebanon"
22 April 1979The Samir Kuntar operation
June 1979Founding of the "Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners"After the Nahariya operation in April 1979 the Israeli chief of staff Rafael Eitan ordered the Northern Command chief…
6 April 1980Siege of the Irish battalion at At Tiri
18 April 1980Two Irish soldiers executed by Haddad's militia
27 August 1980Assassination attempt on US Ambassador John Gunther Dean
2 April 1981Bashir Gemayel asks Israel to intervene in Zahle
28 April 1981The Zahle warOn 28 April 1981 Israeli aircraft shot down two Syrian helicopters over Zahle on the pretext of protecting the…
29 April 1981Syria deploys SAM-6 missiles in the BekaaOn 29 April 1981, the day after Israel shot down two Syrian helicopters over Zahle, Syria deployed SAM-6 missile…
17 July 1981The Fakhani bombingOn 17 July 1981 Israeli aircraft bombed the PLO's headquarters in the Fakhani district of West Beirut, killing some…
24 July 1981Fighting in the SouthFighting in the South between the PLO and Israel, then a ceasefire.
17 September 1981Car bomb at the Joint Forces HQ in Sidon, and the Chekka blastOn 17 September 1981 a car carrying some 300 kilograms of TNT exploded outside the regional headquarters of the PLO and…
1 October 1981Car bomb outside PLO offices in FakhaniOn 1 October 1981 a car bomb exploded outside the PLO's offices in Fakhani in West Beirut, killing at least 50 people…
29 November 1981The Azbakiyah bombing in Damascus
3 June 1982Attempt on ambassador Shlomo Argov in LondonOn 3 June 1982 gunmen of the Abu Nidal group shot the Israeli ambassador in London, leaving him paralysed; Israel took…
6 June 1982The Israeli invasion of LebanonOn 6 June 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon in Operation "Peace for Galilee", on the pretext of the attempt on its ambassador…
6 June 1982Battle of Beaufort castleOn 6 June 1982, the first day of the invasion, a Golani unit stormed Beaufort castle, where the PLO fighters held out…
6 June 1982Battle of the Ain al-Hilweh camp
9 June 1982The Beqaa air battle: Operation Mole Cricket 19On 9 June 1982 the Israeli air force destroyed 17 Syrian SAM batteries in the Bekaa and shot down 29 Syrian aircraft in…
10 June 1982Battle of Sultan YacoubOn 10–11 June 1982 an Israeli armoured force ran into the Syrian army near Sultan Yacoub in the West Bekaa, suffered…
11 June 1982Battle of KhaldeFrom 11 June 1982 an alliance of fighters of the Amal Movement, the Communist Party's Popular Guard and the PLO fought…
14 June 1982The siege of Beirut beginsOn 14 June 1982 Israeli forces reached Baabda, cut the Damascus road and closed the siege around West Beirut, where the…
July 1982Ansar detention camp opened
12 August 1982Black Thursday: the heaviest bombing of BeirutOn 12 August 1982 Israeli aircraft bombed West Beirut for eleven hours without pause; some 300 were killed in a single…
23 August 1982Election of Bachir GemayelThe election of Bachir Gemayel as president under Israeli pressure, with Israeli tanks outside the parliament…
4 September 1982The Bhamdoun operation: eight Israeli soldiers capturedOn 4 September 1982 a group from Fatah's Jarmaq battalion infiltrated an Israeli observation post north of Bhamdoun and…
15 September 1982The Israeli army occupies West BeirutOn 15 September 1982, the day after the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the Israeli army entered West Beirut in breach…
16 September 1982Sabra and Shatila massacreBetween 16 and 18 September 1982, two days after the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the Lebanese Forces entered the…
16 September 1982Launch of the Lebanese National Resistance Front (Jammoul)On 16 September 1982, the day the Israeli army entered West Beirut, the Communist Party's secretary-general George…
24 September 1982The Wimpy operation: Khaled Alwan shoots Israeli officers in HamraOn 24 September 1982 Khaled Alwan (19), of the SSNP, opened fire on Israeli soldiers at the Wimpy café on Hamra Street,…
29 September 1982Israel withdraws from West BeirutOn 29 September 1982 the Israeli army withdrew from West Beirut to a line beyond the airport, under the pressure of the…
11 November 1982The Ahmad Qassir operationOn 11 November 1982 Ahmad Qassir (19) blew up his car at the Israeli military governor's headquarters in Tyre,…
28 January 1983Car bomb in Chtaura
6 February 1983Bombing of the Palestine Research Center in Beirut
8 February 1983Kahan Commission report
13 April 1983Ali Safieddine suicide operation at Deir Qanoun al-Nahr
17 May 1983The 17 May AgreementOn 17 May 1983 Lebanon and Israel signed, under American sponsorship, an agreement ending the state of war and tying…
24 July 1983Escape from Ansar camp
7 August 1983Car bomb in the Baalbek market
3 September 1983Israel withdraws from the Mountain and BeirutOn 3–4 September 1983 the Israeli army withdrew from the Chouf, Aley and the suburbs of Beirut to the Awali river line.…
17 October 1983Ashura uprising in NabatiehOn 17 October 1983 (the tenth of Muharram) an Israeli patrol drove into the Ashura procession in Nabatieh; the…
4 November 1983Second Tyre suicide operation on the Israeli intelligence HQ
5 December 1983The Chiyah bombing
14 January 1984Death of Saad Haddad
18 January 1984Fourteen-year-old Nazih Qubrusli attacks an Israeli patrol in Sidon
16 February 1984Assassination of Sheikh Ragheb HarbOn 16 February 1984 Sheikh Ragheb Harb, the imam of Jibsheet and the symbol of the resistance in the South, who had…
4 April 1984Antoine Lahd appointed
20 September 1984Sohmor massacre
16 February 1985Israel withdraws from SidonOn 16 February 1985 Israel completed the first stage of its withdrawal, evacuating Sidon and its surroundings to the…
4 March 1985The Maarake mosque bombing and the killing of Mohammad Saad
10 March 1985Abu Zeinab (Amer Kalakesh) operation near Metula
11 March 1985The Zrariyeh massacre
9 April 1985The Sanaa Mehaidli operation
29 April 1985Israel withdraws from Tyre
10 June 1985Israel withdraws to the security beltOn 14 January 1985 the Israeli government approved a withdrawal in three stages under the pressure of resistance…
15 July 1985The Kfar Tibnit crossing operation
17 February 1986Two Israeli soldiers capturedOn 17 February 1986 the Islamic Resistance captured the two soldiers Yosef Fink and Rahamim Alsheikh in an ambush near…
27 March 1986Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona hit a school
18 September 1986Storming of the Sojod and Bir Kallab positions on Jabal al-RihanOn 18 September 1986 the mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance held for six hours the fortified Sojod and Bir Kallab…
16 October 1986Capture of Ron AradOn 16 October 1986 an Israeli Phantom was shot down over Sidon and its navigator Ron Arad was captured by the Amal…
26 November 1986Jabal Safi engagement
3 December 1986Dallafeh operation and the first captured APC
1 January 1987Last signs of life from Ron Arad: three letters and two photos
2 January 1987Capture of the Barachit and Beit Yahoun positions and an M113
6 February 1987Storming of the Ali al-Taher positionOn 6 February 1987 the mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance stormed the Ali al-Taher position, destroyed it completely…
18 April 1987Shumariya and Alman battles: 19 resistance fighters killed
30 May 1987Operation "Badr al-Kubra" on Jabal Safi and JezzineOn 30 May 1987 the Islamic Resistance launched its widest attacks up to then: hundreds of resistance fighters took four…
25 November 1987The Night of the Gliders
2 January 1988Air strikes on Ain al-Hilweh and the Sidon coast
2 May 1988The Maydoun battle
13 July 1988Zillaya–Didbeh hills clash; commander Mohammad Bjeiji killed
19 August 1988The Haitham Dabbouq martyrdom operation
24 August 1988Libbaya–Bir al-Dahr clash; commander Abu Ali Shahla killed
19 October 1988Abdallah Atwi suicide operation at the Fatima Gate
17 November 1988The Souha Bechara operationOn 17 November 1988 Souha Bechara (21), of the SSNP, shot Antoine Lahd, commander of the South Lebanon Army, in his…
28 July 1989Abduction of Sheikh Abdel Karim ObeidThe "Organisation of the Oppressed on Earth" answered with the execution of the American Colonel Higgins.
9 August 1989The Sheikh Asaad Berro operation
27 November 1989Khiam prison uprising
3 February 1990Double attack on the Jisr al-Hamra and Bayyada positions
4 February 1990Barghouz–Ahmadiyeh bomb destroys an APC and a jeep
7 March 1990Storming of the Zimriya position and a twelve-hour battle in the Western Beqaa
19 April 1990Israeli commandos repelled
7 March 1991First Merkava tank destroyed near al-Ahmadiya
25 April 1991Ambush of an SLA patrol in the Western Beqaa
2 June 1991The heaviest Israeli raids since 1982
1 July 1991Blida ambush: deputy commander of the western sector killed
16 July 1991Kfar Houna ambush
21 September 1991Exchange: 51 Khiam detainees for the body of an Israeli soldier
21 October 1991Fifteen detainees freed from Khiam and Israeli prisons
30 October 1991The Madrid peace conferenceOn 30 October 1991 the Madrid conference was held with a Lebanese delegation headed by Fares Boueiz alongside Syria,…
15 November 1991Lahd's militia kills an Irish UNIFIL soldier
26 November 1991Two bombs on the Tallouseh–Markaba road
1 December 1991Twenty-five detainees freed from Khiam
29 December 1991Storming of the Rshaf position
16 February 1992Assassination of Sayyed Abbas al-MusawiOn 16 February 1992 Israeli helicopters assassinated Hezbollah's secretary-general Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi with his wife…
17 February 1992First use of Katyusha rockets
21 February 1992Kafra–Yater clashes: the Katyusha enters the equation
21 May 1992Six-day Israeli air offensive
22 May 1992Attack on twelve positions and capture of four SLA men at Alman
5 October 1992Killing of Hussein Abdel-Nabi, SLA security chief in Bint JbeilOn 5 October 1992 the Islamic Resistance killed Hussein Abdel-Nabi, head of Lahd's militia's security apparatus in the…
25 July 1993The July aggression (Operation Accountability)For seven days; it ended with an understanding that neither side would shell civilians (because of the Katyusha…
19 August 1993Shihine bombs: nine soldiers killed a week after the July Understanding
27 August 1993Nasrallah on the "first understanding" after Operation Accountability
16 November 1993Tallousa attack and capture of twelve SLA militiamen
7 February 1994Ambush kills four Israeli soldiers
27 February 1994Rihan ambush and the destruction of a Merkava
21 May 1994Abduction of Mustafa Dirani
2 June 1994Ain Kawkab massacreOn 2 June 1994 Israeli aircraft bombed a Hezbollah training camp at Ain Kawkab near Baalbek during a course for…
2 June 1994Twenty Katyushas on the Galilee in reply to the Ain Kawkab massacre
11 November 1994Attack deep inside the Marjayoun sector
6 December 1994Capture of the Dabsheh position, Hezbollah flag raised on its summitOn 6 December 1994 the mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance stormed the fortified Dabsheh position in the occupied…
23 January 1995Clinton freezes assets of 12 organisations incl. Hezbollah (EO 12947)
31 March 1995Assassination of commander Abu Ali Rida YassineOn 31 March 1995 an Israeli helicopter assassinated Rida Yassine, "Abu Ali Rida", commander of the resistance in the…
31 March 1995Thirty Katyushas on the Galilee after the killing of Rida Yassin: "the July understanding no longer binds"
25 April 1995The Salah Ghandour martyrdom operationOn 25 April 1995 Salah Ghandour, "Malak", blew up his car between two Israeli convoys at the entrance to the "Centre…
26 April 1995Press conference naming Salah Ghandour: "the initiative is in the resistance's hands"
17 May 1995Second attack on the Dabsheh position
18 June 1995Attack on the Barachit position
1995Israel breaches the understanding
16 September 1995Israeli officer killed at AdaissehOn 16 September 1995 an Israeli officer was killed and two wounded in an Islamic Resistance operation in the town of…
13 January 1996Aishiyeh and Mahmoudiya attacks: ten Israeli soldiers killedOn 13 January 1996 ten Israeli soldiers were killed and 11 wounded in two Islamic Resistance attacks on a convoy at…
20 March 1996The Ali Ashmar martyrdom operation
11 April 1996The April aggression ("Grapes of Wrath")From 11 to 27 April 1996 Israel launched Operation "Grapes of Wrath", with air, naval and artillery bombardment of the…
13 April 1996The Mansouri ambulance strike
18 April 1996Qana massacreOn 18 April 1996 Israeli artillery shelled the Fijian battalion's compound at Qana, where hundreds of civilians had…
18 April 1996The Nabatieh Fawka massacre
26 April 1996The April Understanding
30 April 1996Nasrallah on the April UnderstandingOn 30 April 1996, the day after the announcement of the April Understanding following the Qana massacre, Sayyed Hassan…
30 May 1996Two bombs in central Marjayoun: three officers and a sergeant killedOn 30 May 1996, a month after the April Understanding, four Israeli soldiers (three officers and a sergeant) were…
10 June 1996Attack on the Dabsheh position: five killed including two officers
21 July 1996Prisoner exchangeOn 21 July 1996 Hezbollah handed over the bodies of the two soldiers Fink and Alsheikh, captured in 1986, in exchange…
25 October 1996The Jarmaq plain–Aishiyeh operation
14 December 1996Ambush of General Amitai's convoy
24 December 1996The Markaba–Adaisseh road operation
31 January 1997Shumariya bomb: three killed by Israeli admission
4 February 1997The helicopter disaster: 73 Israeli soldiers killedOn the night of 4 February 1997 two Israeli transport helicopters collided over She'ar Yashuv on their way to the…
11 May 1997Capture of the Sojod positionOn 11 May 1997 the Islamic Resistance carried out one of its boldest operations, occupying the fortified Sojod…
18 May 1997Jabal al-Dahr ambush after the Sojod raid
3 August 1997Golani raid on al-Kfour
18 August 1997Sidon massacre: Israeli shells on a residential quarter
19 August 1997Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona in reply to the Sidon massacre
28 August 1997Wadi Saluki: Israeli friendly fire
5 September 1997The Ansariyeh ambushOn the night of 4–5 September 1997 an Israeli naval commando force fell into a Hezbollah and Amal ambush near…
12 September 1997Jabal al-Rafi clashesOn the night of 12–13 September 1997 the resistance clashed with an Israeli force at Jabal al-Rafi near Iqlim…
13 September 1997The raids after Jabal al-Rafi: six Lebanese soldiers killed
8 October 1997Attacks on Israeli command convoys
18 October 1997A Sagger missile hits a second tank
24 January 1998Support Committee iftar: 1997 in review, "the resistance needs money, not men"
27 February 1998Attack on the Blat position in the western sector
1998Raids on Palestinian camps
29 March 1998Nasrallah on "conditional withdrawal": no negotiation over 425
1 April 1998Israel's cabinet offers a conditional implementation of resolution 425On 1 April 1998 Netanyahu's government decided to accept Resolution 425 and withdraw from South Lebanon on condition of…
26 May 1998Bomb seventy-five metres from the border
26 June 1998The exchangeOn 26 June 1998 an exchange took place through German mediation: Israel handed over 40 bodies of resistance martyrs,…
1998Raid and roadside bomb operationA raid on several positions in the South and the detonation of a bomb near the border strip.
2 July 1998Simultaneous attack on eighteen positions and the storming of Haddatha
12 August 1998"Serious failure" at Sojod: hand-to-hand fight and the flag raised
13 September 1998Release of Souha Bechara after ten years in Khiam
26 November 1998Bomb at the border fence kills two soldiers and cuts short Netanyahu's European tour
1 January 1999Support Committee iftar: 1,352 operations in 1998 and an outstretched hand to the Lahoud era
9 February 1999Ambush of a Givati unit
23 February 1999Jabbour ambush: paratroop commander Eitan Balhasan killed
26 February 1999The Arnoun uprisingIn February 1999 Israel annexed the town of Arnoun, next to Beaufort castle, to the border strip with a fence;…
28 February 1999Israel's southern commander killedOn 28 February 1999 General Erez Gerstein, commander of the Israeli liaison unit in South Lebanon, was killed by a…
26 April 1999Ashura 1999: "wait for the resistance at the doors of your houses and your bedrooms"On 26 April 1999 (the tenth of Muharram 1420, coinciding with the anniversary of Grapes of Wrath) Sayyed Hassan…
27 April 1999Twenty attacks along the front and Sojod stormed again
15 May 1999The Beit Yahoun operationOn 15 May 1999, the anniversary of the Nakba, the Islamic Resistance stormed the fortified Beit Yahoun position in the…
17 May 1999Barak elected on a pledge to leave Lebanon within a yearOn 17 May 1999 Ehud Barak won the Israeli premiership over Netanyahu on an election promise to take the army out of…
17 May 1999Beit Yahoun reception speech: "Barak is weaker than a spider's web"On 17 May 1999, the day of the Israeli elections, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah received in the southern suburbs the men who…
3 June 1999Withdrawal from JezzineThe withdrawal of the Israeli army and Lahd's army from the Jezzine area, abandoning all the positions.
21 June 1999"Towards liberation": no trust in Barak's pledge
24 June 1999Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona: first Israeli civilian deaths since 1995
24 June 1999SLA shelling kills a civilian in the south
24 June 1999Raids on the power stationsOn 24 June 1999 Israeli aircraft bombed the Jamhour and Bsalim power stations and bridges in the Bekaa, cutting power…
16 August 1999Assassination of commander Ali Hassan Deeb "Abu Hassan Salameh" in SidonOn 16 August 1999 Ali Hassan Deeb, commander of the Islamic Resistance in the Sidon area, was martyred by two bombs…
30 December 1999The Ammar Hammoud martyrdom operation
30 January 2000Assassination of Aql HashemOn 30 January 2000 the resistance killed Colonel Aql Hashem, the second man in Lahd's army and commander of its western…
1 February 2000Two missiles on an Israeli convoy: three killed
4 February 2000Apache strike on Ibrahim Aqil's car in Barish
8 February 2000Air strikes on the Baalbek, Deir Nbouh and Jamhour power stations
3 March 2000Operation kills five Israeli soldiers
19 April 2000Thirteen prisoners released from Ayalon prison
28 April 2000The Aramta operationOn 28 April 2000 the mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance stormed the fortified Aramta position in the Jezzine…
5 May 2000Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona: the fiercest salvo in a year
5 May 2000Israeli shelling kills two Lebanese women
5 May 2000Strikes on the Bsalim power station: Lebanon in the dark three weeks before the withdrawalOn the night of 5 May 2000 Israeli aircraft answered the Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona with raids across Lebanon that…
18 May 2000Storming of the Bayyada position 72 hours before the withdrawal
21 May 2000Fall of Taibeh and the start of the strip's collapseOn 21 May 2000 the people of Taibeh, Qana and the surrounding villages flooded into the town of Taibeh after its…
23 May 2000Lahd's militia collapses
23 May 2000Khiyam prison freedOn 23 May 2000 the townspeople stormed the Khiyam prison as Lahd's army withdrew and freed some 145 detainees held…
23 May 2000Nasrallah to Lahad's men on the eve of the withdrawal: "in their homes and in their beds"On the eve of the Israeli withdrawal, in a live call to al-Manar television, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned the men of…
25 May 2000LiberationAt dawn on 25 May 2000 Israel completed its withdrawal from South Lebanon after 22 years of occupation, following the…
26 May 2000The "spider's web" speechOn 26 May 2000, at the victory rally in Bint Jbeil, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah presented the Israeli withdrawal as "the…
16 June 2000The UN certifies the withdrawal and draws the Blue LineOn 16 June 2000 Kofi Annan informed the Security Council that Israel had completed its withdrawal under 425 to the…
7 October 2000The Shebaa Farms capture operationOn 7 October 2000 the resistance captured three Israeli soldiers (Adi Avitan, Benny Avraham and Omar Sawaid) in an…
15 October 2000Capture of Israeli colonel Elhanan TannenbaumOn 15 October 2000 Hezbollah announced the capture of the Israeli reserve colonel Elhanan Tannenbaum, who had been…
17 February 2001First Shebaa Farms operation after the capture of the three soldiers
14 April 2001Shebaa Farms attack: one soldier killed
16 April 2001Strike on a Syrian radar at Dahr al-Baidar, first on Syrian forces in Lebanon since 1996
3 October 2001Hezbollah answers overflights with anti-aircraft fire
5 April 2002Shelling of a patrol and four Shebaa Farms posts as the West Bank invasion begins
8 April 2002Tank destroyed at Ruwaisat al-Qarn by a direct missile hit
10 April 2002Storming of the Ruwaisat al-Alam post during the West Bank invasionOn 10 April 2002, at the height of the invasion of the West Bank and the battle of Jenin, the Islamic Resistance…
16 October 2002The Wazzani water crisis
2 August 2003Assassination of Ali SalehOn 2 August 2003 Ali Hussein Saleh, a Hezbollah cadre, was killed when his car exploded in the southern suburbs; the…
9 November 2003Israel's cabinet approves the German-mediated exchange with Hezbollah
19 January 2004Israeli bulldozer destroyed after crossing into Lebanon
29 January 2004The exchange dealThe release of the prisoners Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid and Mustafa Dirani in exchange for the bodies of the three…
19 July 2004Assassination of commander Ghaleb AwaliOn 19 July 2004 the commander Ghaleb Awali, the Hezbollah cadre in charge of the file of support for the Palestinian…
20 July 2004Two Israeli soldiers sniped near Zarit in reply to the Awali assassination
7 November 2004The Mirsad-1 drone
9 January 2005Israeli officer killed in Shebaa Farms
17 January 2005Israeli bulldozer destroyed at Zabdine hill
11 April 2005Second Mirsad-1 flight over the Galilee
21 November 2005The Ghajar confrontation: attempt to capture Israeli soldiersOn 21 November 2005 the Islamic Resistance attacked Israeli positions in the divided village of Ghajar under wide…
26 May 2006Assassination of the Majzoub brothersOn 26 May 2006 the Islamic Jihad leaders Mahmoud and Nidal al-Majzoub were assassinated by a car bomb in Sidon. The…
10 June 2006The Mahmoud Rafeh network exposed: a Mossad cell behind assassinations since 1999On 10 June 2006, after the assassination of the Majzoub brothers, the Lebanese army arrested Mahmoud Rafeh and members…
12 July 2006Operation "Truthful Promise"
12 July 2006The July 2006 warFrom 12 July to 14 August 2006 Israel waged an air and ground war on Lebanon after the capture of the two soldiers:…
12 July 2006Nasrallah's press conference after the captureAt noon on 12 July 2006 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced at a press conference the execution of "the Truthful Promise"…
13 July 2006Airport and bridges bombed, the blockade begins: Dweir the first massacreOn 13 July 2006 Israel began its policy of displacement: a massacre in Dweir raised the number of martyrs to fifty; the…
13 July 2006Saudi statement: "uncalculated adventures", full responsibility on the resistanceOn 13 July 2006 Saudi Arabia laid "full responsibility" on the resistance for its "irresponsible actions" and called on…
14 July 2006Nasrallah: "look at it burning" (INS Hanit hit)On the evening of 14 July 2006 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed the Lebanese and announced, during the speech, that…
14 July 2006The corvette Hanit hit off BeirutOn the evening of 14 July 2006 a C-802 naval missile hit the Israeli corvette "Hanit" off the Beirut shore, killing…
15 July 2006Marwahin massacre: a convoy of displaced villagers under UNIFIL's eyesOn 15 July 2006 Israel warned the people of Marwahin to evacuate and the UN forces refused to take them in, so they…
16 July 2006Second wartime appeal: Haifa and beyond
16 July 2006First rocket barrage on Haifa: eight killed at the train depotOn the morning of 16 July 2006 the Islamic Resistance fired Iranian-made "Raad" rockets at Haifa for the first time,…
17 July 2006Jamhour barracks strike: 11 Lebanese soldiers killed, the Rmeileh convoy massacre
18 July 2006Jumblatt and Hariri: "the adventurers" and "monopolising the decision of war"On 17 and 18 July 2006, with the war in its first week, Saad Hariri told "Okaz" that "the adventurers have put us in an…
18 July 2006Aitaroun massacre: nine killed in the Awada house
19 July 2006The day of seventy martyrs: Srifa, Nabi Sheet and Salaa
20 July 2006Battle of Maroun al-Ras: the first ground engagementFrom 20 to 23 July 2006 Israeli forces tried to advance on the Maroun al-Ras axis near Avivim; the resistance fighters…
20 July 2006Nasrallah: "if the whole universe came it could not recover the two prisoners without negotiations"
21 July 2006Al Jazeera interview: no release without an exchange; Berri the only channel
21 July 2006Rice: "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"On 21 July 2006, at a press conference in Washington before leaving for the region, Condoleezza Rice rejected the calls…
22 July 2006Broadcast masts bombed, bunker-busting bombs rushed in
23 July 2006Destruction of the Qaem, Sayyed al-Shuhada and Zahraa complexes
24 July 2006Rice's surprise visit to Beirut and the "Siniora kiss"On 24 July 2006, the thirteenth day of the war, the American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice arrived by helicopter…
24 July 2006Apache downed, raid into AvivimOn 24 July 2006, after 4,500 raids and with the war entering its third week, Israel pushed special units and…
25 July 2006The "beyond beyond Haifa" address: no humiliating terms
25 July 2006Four UN observers killed at the Khiam postOn 25 July 2006 heavy missiles destroyed the international observers' post near the Khiam prison (which the raids had…
26 July 2006The Rome conference and Siniora's seven pointsOn 26 July 2006 the international Rome conference on Lebanon met, and Fouad Siniora presented a seven-point plan: a…
26 July 2006The Bint Jbeil epic: the Saff al-Hawa ambushesOn 26 July 2006 Israel announced the occupation of Bint Jbeil overnight, and its soldiers woke to tight ambushes at the…
27 July 2006Security cabinet: no wider ground push, tens of thousands of reservists called up
28 July 2006First Khaibar-1 rocket on Afula: "beyond Haifa" beginsOn 28 July 2006 the Islamic Resistance fired a "Khaibar 1" rocket for the first time, at Afula, 47 kilometres from the…
28 July 2006The fighters' letter from the border: "we are your truthful promise"
29 July 2006Appeal: "in the battle of wills we will not break"
29 July 2006Nmairiyeh and Ain Arab massacres, humanitarian truce refused
30 July 2006The second Qana massacreAt dawn on 30 July 2006 Israeli aircraft bombed a building sheltering displaced families in Qana; 54 were martyred,…
30 July 2006Berri and Siniora after Qana: negotiations halted, ceasefire firstOn 30 July 2006 Nabih Berri and Fouad Siniora announced a united position at a joint press conference: a halt to all…
31 July 2006Second Saar corvette hit off Bayyada, five tanks destroyed
1 August 2006The Dar al-Hikma raid in Baalbek: 18 killed and five abductedOn the night of 1–2 August 2006 more than two hundred soldiers from elite units landed at the Dar al-Hikma hospital in…
1 August 2006Aita al-Shaab school ambush: 15 Golani casualties
2 August 2006Three hundred rockets in a day, Beit Shean at 70 kilometres
3 August 2006Nasrallah: if you bomb Beirut we bomb Tel AvivOn 3 August 2006, after the second Qana massacre and the bombing of the southern suburbs, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
3 August 2006150 rockets in an hour: eight killed in Acre and the north
4 August 2006The Qaa massacre: 34 Syrian farm workersOn 4 August 2006 aircraft struck a vegetable-packing workshop at the Qaa al-Rim farms in the northern Bekaa; 34 Syrian…
4 August 2006Khaibar on Hadera: 75 kilometres, the Ramat David and Yoav bases
5 August 2006Shayetet 13 landing foiled at Shabriha on the heaviest day of raids
6 August 2006Kfar Giladi: 12 reservists killed by two rockets, and Haifa's "hardest day"On 6 August 2006 two rockets hit a gathering of a command platoon of paratroop brigade reservists at kibbutz Kfar…
7 August 2006Siniora's tears before the Arab foreign ministers in Beirut
7 August 2006The Chiyah massacre: the displaced families' building near the Hajjaj mosqueOn 7 August 2006 Chiyah was targeted for the first time: heavy missiles fell on a building near the Hajjaj mosque that…
8 August 2006The second Ghaziyeh massacre: the funeral of the previous day's dead bombed
9 August 2006Message on the seven points and the draft UN resolution
9 August 2006The day of fifteen: Debel and Taibeh, and the push to the Litani approvedOn 9 August 2006 the enemy admitted 15 soldiers killed and 38 wounded in Aita al-Shaab, Debel and Taibeh (nine of them…
10 August 2006Israeli troops take the Marjayoun barracks and the "tea" scandalOn 10 August 2006 some two hundred Israeli soldiers with two tanks entered the Internal Security Forces and army…
10 August 2006The Markaba and Khiam plain battles: 18 killed and 15 tanksOn 10 August 2006 the enemy lost 18 dead, officers and men, and 15 Merkava tanks were destroyed on the axes, the…
11 August 2006UNSC resolution 1701On 11 August 2006 the Security Council adopted Resolution 1701: a cessation of hostilities from 14 August, the…
11 August 2006Strike on the Marjayoun evacuation convoy: seven killed
11 August 2006The Hissa bridge massacre and the Super Dvora boat hit
12 August 2006Wadi al-Hujeir: the "Merkava massacre" and the biggest airlift since 1973On 12 August 2006, the day after Resolution 1701, Israel threw some 130,000 troops into the largest airborne operation…
13 August 2006The last day: 250 rockets, the failed Boudai raid, the pre-ceasefire massacresOn 13 August 2006 Israel escalated before the ceasefire took effect: twenty martyrs in raids on Burj al-Shamali,…
14 August 2006The "strategic and historic victory" speech and the reconstruction pledgeOn 14 August 2006, the day of the cessation of hostilities and the return of the displaced, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
14 August 2006Cessation of hostilities and the return of the displaced: Olmert admits failingsOn the morning of 14 August 2006, the thirty-fourth day, the war stopped and the people of the South began returning at…
31 August 2006The Stockholm reconstruction conference
17 September 2006The Winograd CommissionOn 17 September 2006 the Israeli government formed a commission headed by Judge Eliyahu Winograd to investigate the…
24 June 2007UNIFIL patrol bombedOn 24 June 2007 a car bomb exploded beside a Spanish UNIFIL patrol near Khiam, killing six soldiers; the first deadly…
15 October 2007Limited exchange: Gabriel Dawit's body for a prisoner and two bodies
12 February 2008Assassination of commander Imad MughniyehOn 12 February 2008 commander Imad Mughniyeh, "Hajj Radwan", Hezbollah's military commander and the man most wanted by…
14 February 2008Nasrallah at Mughniyeh's funeral: "open war"On 14 February 2008 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed the funeral of the martyr commander Hajj Imad Mughniyeh in the…
16 July 2008The prisoner exchangeOn 16 July 2008 Hezbollah handed over the bodies of the two soldiers Goldwasser and Regev in exchange for the release…
4 October 2008The "Dahiya doctrine": Eisenkot threatens every village rockets are fired fromIn an interview with "Yedioth Ahronoth" at the start of October 2008, the Israeli Northern Command chief Gadi Eisenkot…
8 January 2009Rockets from South Lebanon
11 April 2009The wave of Israeli spy-ring arrestsThe Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces arrested the retired brigadier Adib al-Alam in the Dekwaneh…
June 2010Arrest of Charbel Qazzi at Alfa: Israel inside the mobile networkIn late June 2010 the Lebanese army arrested Charbel Qazzi, head of the transmission and maintenance department at the…
3 August 2010The Adaisseh clash between the Lebanese and Israeli armiesOn 3 August 2010 the Lebanese army clashed with an Israeli force that tried to uproot a tree on the border at Adaisseh;…
August 2010General Fayez Karam arrested on charges of collaborating with Israel
9 August 2010Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's press conferenceOn 9 August 2010 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah presented at a press conference evidence of Israel's involvement in Hariri's…
2 December 2010WikiLeaks cables: Elias Murr advises Israel via the US ambassadorAt the start of December 2010 "al-Akhbar" published cables of the American embassy in Beirut obtained from WikiLeaks,…
6 October 2012The Ayoub droneOn 6 October 2012 an Iranian-made drone launched by Hezbollah flew over the Negev as far as the surroundings of the…
11 October 2012Nasrallah claims the "Ayoub" drone
4 December 2013Assassination of commander Hassan al-LaqqisOn the night of 3–4 December 2013 Hassan al-Laqqis, the Hezbollah cadre in charge of manufacturing and technology, was…
7 October 2014Shebaa Farms bomb wounds two Israeli soldiers
18 January 2015Assassination of Jihad MughniyehThe assassination of the martyr Jihad Mughniyeh and his comrades in Quneitra. Three days earlier Sayyed Hassan…
28 January 2015Shebaa Farms ambush in reply to the Quneitra strikeOn 28 January 2015 Hezbollah hit an Israeli military convoy with Kornet missiles in the Shebaa Farms, killing an…
9 November 2015General Security detains two Lebanese and a Syrian for spying for Israel
19 December 2015Assassination of Samir KuntarOn 19 December 2015 Samir Kuntar was killed in an Israeli strike on Jaramana near Damascus. On 21 December Sayyed…
4 January 2016Shebaa Farms bomb in reply to Kuntar's killing
16 February 2016The "Haifa ammonia" speech
7 October 2017State Security arrests three Mossad collaborators in Bourj al-Barajneh, Hadath al-Jebbeh and Deir Qanoun
14 January 2018Car bomb against Hamas cadre Mohammad Hamdan in Sidon; Ahmad Baytiyeh arrested
30 January 2018"Rise and Kill First" reveals Israel ran the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from ForeignersIn January 2018 the Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman published his book "Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of…
13 November 2018Army intelligence detains Mohammad Hussein Fakih trying to cross to Israel
24 August 2019Strike near Damascus kills two Hezbollah members
25 August 2019Israeli drones crash in Moawad; Nasrallah speechAt dawn on 25 August 2019 an Israeli drone fell in the Moawad district of the southern suburbs and another exploded…
1 September 2019The Avivim reply: guided missiles on an Israeli vehicleOn 1 September 2019 the "group of the two martyrs Hassan Zbeeb and Yasser Daher" hit an Israeli military vehicle with…
12 September 2019Arrest of Amer Fakhoury, former Khiam prison warden, after his return to LebanonIn September 2019 Amer Fakhoury, the former official at Lahd's army's Khiam prison and a holder of American…
October 2019General Security arrests Lebanese-Canadian Tabet Tabet at the airport on Mossad spying charges
27 February 2020First offshore drilling in Block 4 ends without a find
19 March 2020Collaborator Amer Fakhoury freed and flown out by US helicopter
1 October 2020Berri announces the framework for maritime talksOn 1 October 2020 Nabih Berri announced a framework agreement, through American mediation, for indirect negotiations…
5 August 2021Israeli air strikes on Jarmaq and Shawakir: first on the south since 2006
6 August 2021Rockets on Shebaa Farms in reply to the Jarmaq air strikes
31 January 2022Seventeen Israeli spy networks dismantled: the largest operation since 2009On 31 January 2022 the interior minister Bassam Mawlawi informed the cabinet that the Information Branch of the…
24 February 2022General Security detains a "veteran" spy in Sidon suspected of a role in the Majzoub assassination
2 July 2022Drones over the Karish fieldOn 2 July 2022 Hezbollah launched three unarmed drones towards the gas platform in the Karish field, and Israel shot…
17 September 2022Nasrallah: "our eyes and our missiles are on Karish"In September 2022, as Israel approached the start of production at the Karish field before the signing of the…
27 October 2022The maritime border agreementOn 27 October 2022 Lebanon and Israel signed the maritime border demarcation agreement through American mediation (Amos…
6 April 2023Rockets from the South
8 October 2023Hezbollah opens the "support front" from the southOn 8 October 2023, the day after the al-Aqsa Flood, the Islamic Resistance shelled Israeli positions in the Shebaa…
25 October 2023Nasrallah meets Nakhalah and Arouri: axis coordination after the FloodOn 25 October 2023 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met the secretary-general of Islamic Jihad Ziad al-Nakhalah and the deputy…
3 November 2023Nasrallah's first speech after 7 OctoberOn 3 November 2023, after four weeks of anticipation, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gave his first speech after the al-Aqsa…
9 October 2024The army arrests two Syrians recruited by Israel to photograph strike sites
1 November 2024Israeli naval raid at Batroun abducts Imad AmhazOn the night of 1 November 2024 some 25 members of the Israeli naval commando unit "Shayetet 13" landed by speedboat on…
November 2024Post-2024-war wave of collaborator arrests: 32 detained, 21 handed over by HezbollahWith the ceasefire of 27 November 2024 the pursuit of those suspected of dealing with Israel accelerated: six were…