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On Monday, Israel launched fresh attacks on Lebanon claiming the lives of 492 people and injuring dozens of others, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging civilians to pay heed to Israeli calls for evacuation. He further asserted that the air campaign against the militant group Hezbollah will intensify within the coming days, reported news agency Associated Press.
As per Lebanon’s health ministry, 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women were killed while 1,645 people were wounded. This is one of the largest strikes to hit Lebanon since a series of pagers and walkie-talkies blew up across the country last week.
Meanwhile, according to news agency AP, Israel’s military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said the army will do “whatever is necessary” to push Hezbollah from Lebanon’s border with Israel. The increasing strikes and counterstrikes have raised fears of an all-out war, even as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza and tries to negotiate the release of scores of hostages taken in Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack.
The two nations have been involved in violent eruptions since the Gaza War in 2006. Let us take a closer look at some of the eruptions over the years.
Disputes from 2007 to 2013
Israeli military uprooted trees in a disputed border area at Odaisseh region in August 2010. This led to a battle between the Israeli and Lebanese soldiers, which claimed the lives of two Lebanese soldiers, a journalist and a senior Israeli officer.
Four Israeli soldiers on patrol were wounded in a blast claimed by Hezbollah 400 metres (1,300 feet) inside Lebanese territory on August 7, 2013.
Israeli strikes between 2014 to 2015
As a response to a bomb attack that wounded two Israeli soldiers in the Shebaa hills, a ceasefire line between the two countries, Israel struck two Hezbollah positions on October 7, 2014.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah ambush in the Shebaa hills in retaliation for a raid blamed on Israel 10 days earlier on the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights on January 28, 2015.
That killed at least six members of Hezbollah and an Iranian general. In response to the ambush, Israeli tanks and artillery bombarded several villages in southern Lebanon.
Drone, missile strikes in 2019
Two explosive-laden drones hit southern Beirut suburbs and caused heavy damages to the region claimed Hezbollah, which blamed the attack on Israel on August 25, 2019. The day before, an Israeli air strike in Syria killed two Hezbollah members. The Israeli army and Hezbollah traded missile fire along the border on September 1.
Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah expand in 2021
In early August 2021, Israel responded to rocket fire from Lebanon with artillery fire and air strikes on southern Lebanon.
Aftermath of the October 7 attacks
Hezbollah has traded almost daily cross-border fire with Israel since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.
In southern Lebanon, a Reuters video journalist was killed on October 13, while six other journalists from AFP, Reuters and Al Jazeera were wounded.
Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri was killed in Beirut’s southern suburbs in a strike blamed on Israel on January 2, 2024.
All that happened between July and August 2024
A rocket strike killed 12 children between the ages of 10-16 years in the Druze Arab town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Israel blamed the strike on Hezbollah, which denied the claim.
The Israeli army responded by striking Beirut’s southern suburbs on July 30, killing Hezbollah’s top commander in the south, Fuad Shukr. In an August 21 strike, the Israeli military killed Khalil Maqdah, described by the Palestinian Fatah movement as “one of the leaders” of its armed wing in Lebanon.
Deadliest attack on Lebanon in September 2024
On September 17 and 18, hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah for communication exploded in an operation the Lebanese militant group blamed on Israel. Israel did not comment on the stunning security breach, which killed dozens and wounded 2,931 more, according to Lebanese authorities.
More tit-for-tat exchanges of fire followed, and on September 20 an Israeli strike on the group’s southern Beirut stronghold killed Ibrahim Aqil, the commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force. Days later on September 23, Israeli strikes pounded Lebanon’s south, killing 274 people – the worst toll by far since the war in Gaza erupted.
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