The 2006 "Second Lebanon War" began on July 12, 2006 and concluded on August 14 with a UN brokered cease fire.
The 2006 "Second Lebanon War" began on July 12, 2006 and concluded on August 14 with a UN brokered cease fire. The conflict began when Hezbollah terrorists opened fire with rockets on mortars on the Israeli border towns of Zar'it and Shtula, wounding several civilians. This was a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence. The purpose of the attack was to capture Israelis who could be used in a prisoner exchange barter such as the one that had taken place in 2004, in which Israel got the bodies of three kidnapped soldiers, as well as the drug dealer Elchanan Tannenbaum, in return for a large number of Lebanese and Arab prisoners, living and dead. During the war, about 1,200 Lebanese were killed, of whom about 500 - 700 were estimated by Israel or the UN to have been Hezbollah guerillas. About 149 Israeli soldiers and 44 civilians were killed. Upward of 4,000 civilians on each side were injured, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homes temporarily or permanently. UN Security Council Resolution 1701 terminated the hostilities by securing Lebanese agreement to take control of Southern Lebanon from the Hezbollah with the help of an enlarged United nations emergency force.
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