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The entrance to the UN base where four UN peacekeepers were killed during the 2006 Lebanon conflict. During the 2006 July War, a number of international incidents occurred in Lebanon, largely involving United Nations personnel who have come under a number of attacks by Israeli forces. Most notably on 25 July 2006, four unarmed United Nations ...
These acts were denounced as gender-based violence, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, aligning with the International Criminal Court's recognition of sexual violence as such. [333] [334] [335] Witnesses described the perpetrators using shovels, [336] beheading victims, engaged in rapes, and even playing with severed body parts. [335]
Casualties. As of 21 May 2024, over 37,000 people (35,562 Palestinian [10] and 1,478 Israeli [22] have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 105 journalists (100 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) [23] and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, including 179 employees of UNRWA. [24] The vast majority of casualties have ...
The Israel–Hamas war has sparked protests, demonstrations, and vigils around the world. [16] These events focused on a variety of issues related to the conflict, including demands for a ceasefire, an end to the Israeli blockade and occupation, return of Israeli hostages, protesting war crimes, and providing humanitarian aid to Gaza.
A crater in Dahieh in 2008, two years after the 2006 Lebanon War. The Dahiya doctrine, or Dahya doctrine, [1] is a military strategy involving the destruction of civilian infrastructure in order to pressure hostile regimes. [2] It is a type of asymmetric warfare. It endorses the employment of "disproportionate force" (compared to the amount of ...
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war became a war of separate states with the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight, and ...
e. The Lebanese Civil War ( Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities [5] and also led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.
This is a list of notable engagements during the Israel–Hamas war, encompassing land, naval, and air engagements, covering events which took place or began during the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel on the 7 October, events and immediately afterwards, Israel's declaration of war on 8 October, the imposition of the 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, and active operations in the Gaza Strip.