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During the 2006 Lebanon War, allegations of war crimes were made by various groups and individuals, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and United Nations officials, who accused both Hezbollah and Israel of violating international humanitarian law. [1] These have included allegations of intentional attacks on civilian ...
Israeli–Lebanese conflict. The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, [4] is a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various militias and militants acting from within Lebanon. The conflict peaked in the 1980s, during the Lebanese Civil War, and ...
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killings of between 700 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias —in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. It was perpetrated by the Lebanese Forces, one of the main Christian militias in Lebanon, and supported by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that ...
Lebanon has accused Israel of repeatedly violating its sovereignty and committing breaches of international law over the last six months, during which the Israeli military and Lebanese armed group ...
In a report, Amnesty International also said that during the month-long conflict in Lebanon, Israel committed war crimes, including indiscriminate attacks, if not direct attacks against civilians, disproportionate attacks, including the sustained artillery bombardment of south Lebanon and the widespread use of cluster bombs in civilian areas ...
The 2006 Qana airstrike (also referred to as the 2006 Qana massacre [3] [4] or the second Qana massacre [5] [6]) was an airstrike carried out by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a three-story [7] building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War.
Meanwhile, crossfire at Israel’s border with Lebanon could be the launching pad of a regional war, as communities in northern Israel have emptied out amid fears that the war could spread.
The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War [39] and known in Lebanon as the July War [1] ( Arabic: حرب تموز, Ḥarb Tammūz) and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( Hebrew: מלחמת לבנון השנייה, Milhemet Levanon HaShniya ), [40] was a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon, northern Israel and the ...