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2006 Lebanon War

For other wars in Lebanon, see Lebanon War.

2006 Lebanon War
Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict and the war on terror

Clockwise from top left:
Date12 July – 14 August 2006[a]
(1 month and 2 days)
Location
Lebanon, northern Israel and the Golan Heights[4]
Result Inconclusive (see analysis)
Belligerents
 Israel

Hezbollah

Allies:
Commanders and leaders
Israel Ehud Olmert
Israel Amir Peretz
Israel Dan Halutz
Israel Moshe Kaplinsky
Israel Udi Adam
Israel Eliezer Shkedi
Israel David Ben-Besht		 Hassan Nasrallah
Imad Mughniyeh
Nabih Berri
Khaled Hadadi
Strength
Up to 10,000 soldiers by 2 August;[5]
30,000 soldiers in the last few days[6]		 Up to 1,000
(south of the Litani River)[7][8]
Casualties and losses

Israel

In Lebanon

  • Lebanese citizens* and foreign citizens
  • Hezbollah fighters:
    250 killed (per Human Rights Watch[29] and Hezbollah)
    600+ killed and 800 wounded (per Israel[31])
    Captured: 4 fighters
  • Amal militia: 17 dead
  • LCP militia: 12 dead
  • PFLP-GC militia: 2 dead
  • Foreign civilians:
    51 dead[22]
    25 wounded
  • United Nations:
    5 dead
    12 wounded[32]

* The Lebanese government did not differentiate between civilians and combatants in death toll figures.


For total casualty figures, see: Casualties of the 2006 Lebanon War

The 2006 Lebanon War was a 34-day armed conflict in Lebanon, fought between Hezbollah and Israel. The war started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon. It marked the third Israeli invasion into Lebanon since 1978.

After Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah aimed for the release of Lebanese citizens held in Israeli prisons.[33] On 12 July 2006, Hezbollah ambushed Israeli soldiers on the border, killing three and capturing two; a further five were killed during a failed Israeli rescue attempt.[34] Hezbollah demanded an exchange of prisoners with Israel.[35] Israel launched airstrikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon, attacking both Hezbollah military targets and Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport.[36] Israel launched a ground invasion of Southern Lebanon and imposed an air-and-naval blockade on the country.[37] Hezbollah then launched more rockets into northern Israel and engaged the IDF in guerrilla warfare from hardened positions.[38] According to Israeli sources, Hezbollah fired close to 4,000 rockets and missiles at Israel from their arsenal of around 15,000 held before the war.[39]

On 11 August 2006, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 (UNSCR 1701) in an effort to end the hostilities, which called for disarmament of Hezbollah, Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, and for the deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces and an enlarged United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in the south. The Lebanese Army began deploying in Southern Lebanon on 17 August and the blockade was lifted on 8 September.[40] On 1 October, most Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon, although the last of the troops continued to occupy the border-straddling village of Ghajar.[41]

Both Hezbollah and the Israeli government claimed victory,[42][better source needed] while the Winograd Commission deemed the war a missed opportunity for Israel as it did not lead to disarmament of Hezbollah.[43] The conflict is believed to have killed between 1,191 and 1,300 Lebanese people,[44][45][46][47] and 165 Israelis.[48] It severely damaged Lebanese civil infrastructure, and displaced approximately one million Lebanese[49] and 300,000–500,000 Israelis.[50][51][52] The remains of the two captured soldiers, whose fates were unknown, were returned to Israel on 16 July 2008 as part of a prisoner exchange.

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  2. ^ Herbert Docena (17 August 2006). "Amid the bombs, unity is forged". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 31 August 2006. Retrieved 25 November 2011. The LCP ... has itself been very close to Hezbollah and fought alongside it in the frontlines in the south. According to Hadadeh, at least 12 LCP members and supporters died in the fighting.
  3. ^ "PFLP claims losses in IDF strike on Lebanon base". The Jerusalem Post. Associated Press. 6 August 2006. Archived from the original on 3 February 2012.
  4. ^ Uzi Rubin. The Rocket Campaign against Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War. p. 12. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Bar-Ilan University
  5. ^ "Israel captures guerillas in Hezbollah hospital raid", USA Today, Beirut: reprinted from the Associated Press, 2 August 2006, retrieved 12 September 2015
  6. ^ "Some 30,000 Israeli troops in Lebanon – army radio". Yahoo! News. Reuters. 13 August 2006. Archived from the original on 15 February 2008.
  7. ^ Blanford, Nicholas (11 August 2006). "Hizbullah's resilience built on years of homework". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  8. ^ Harel and Issacharoff, p. 172
  9. ^ "The Final Winograd Commission report, pp. 598–610" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013. 628 wounded according to Northern Command medical census of 9 November 2006 (The Final Winograd Commission Report, page 353)
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  11. ^ Rolling Thunder: A Century of tank Warfare (Pen and Sword, 14 November 2013), by Philip Kaplan, page 172
  12. ^ Cordesman & Sullivan 2007, p. 110"Only 5–6 of all types represented a lasting vehicle kill"
  13. ^ "Hezbollah Defies Israeli Pressure". BBC News. 21 July 2006.
  14. ^ Egozi, Arie (1 August 2006). "Israeli Air Power Falls Short As Offensive in Southern Lebanon Fails To Halt Hezbollah Rocket Attacks". Flight International. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008.
  15. ^ Hizbullah shoots down helicopter in southern Lebanon Hanan Greenberg Published: 08.12.06, 23:01, ynetnews
  16. ^ Crash grounds Israel helicopters Page last updated at 09:04 GMT, Thursday, 11 September 2008
  17. ^ Exclusive: Photos of navy ship hit during war revealed. YnetNews. 10.11.07
  18. ^ "Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Arsenal" by Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times, 31 December 2008.
  19. ^ "State snubbed war victim, family says". ynetnews.com. 30 August 2007. Archived from the original on 2 June 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
  20. ^ BBC News Online (8 March 2007). "PM 'says Israel pre-planned war'". Retrieved 9 March 2007.
  21. ^ "The Final Winograd Commission report, pp. 598–610" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  22. ^ a b See Casualties of the 2006 Lebanon War#Foreign civilian casualties in Israel and Casualties of the 2006 Lebanon War#Foreign civilian casualties in Lebanon for a complete and adequately sourced list
  23. ^ "Lebanon – Amnesty International Report 2007". Human Rights in Lebanese Republic. Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015.
  24. ^ Israel/Lebanon: Out of all proportion – civilians bear the brunt of the war, Amnesty International, November 2006.
  25. ^ "Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 60/251 of March 2006 entitled "Human Rights Council"" (PDF). United Nations Human Rights Council. 23 November 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2013.
  26. ^ McRae, D.M.; De Mestral, A.L.C. (2010). The Canadian Yearbook of International Law. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774859172.
  27. ^ SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Armaments, Disarmament, And International Security, Oxford University Press, page 69.
  28. ^ Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law:Volume 9; Volume 2006. T.M.C Asser Press. 2006. ISBN 978-90-6704-269-7.
  29. ^ a b Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 War, Human Rights Watch, September 2007
  30. ^ Gross, Michael; Gross, Michael L. (2010). Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict. Cambridge University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-521-86615-6.
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  32. ^ "United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)". United Nations. 6 August 2009. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  33. ^ Wahab, Hadi (2022). Hezbollah:A Regional Armed Non-State Actor. Taylor & Francis. p. 69.
  34. ^ "Clashes spread to Lebanon as Hezbollah raids Israel". International Herald Tribune. 12 July 2006. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009.
  35. ^ Myre, Greg; Erlanger, Steven (13 July 2006). "Israelis Enter Lebanon After Attacks". The New York Times.
  36. ^ "Israeli warplanes hit Beirut suburb". CNN. 14 July 2006. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  37. ^ Cody, Edward (24 August 2006). "Lebanese Premier Seeks U.S. Help in Lifting Blockade". The Washington Post. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  38. ^ Urquhart, Conal (11 August 2006). "Computerised weaponry and high morale". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 30 August 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2006.
  39. ^ Shaikh, Shaan; Williams, Ian (26 June 2018). "Missiles and Rockets of Hezbollah". Missile Threat. Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  40. ^ Pannell, Ian (9 September 2006). "Lebanon breathes after the blockade". BBC News. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
  41. ^ "UN peacekeepers: Israeli troops still in Lebanon". CNN. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  42. ^ Hassan Nasrallah (22 September 2006). "Sayyed Nasrallah Speech on the Divine Victory Rally in Beirut on 22-09-2006". al-Ahed magazine. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  43. ^ "English Summary of the Winograd Commission Report". The New York Times. 30 January 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  44. ^ "Cloud of Syria's war hangs over Lebanese cleric's death". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  45. ^ Reuters, 12 September 2006; Al-Hayat (London), 13 September 2006
  46. ^ "Country Report—Lebanon," The Economist Intelligence Unit, no. 4 (2006), pp. 3–6.
  47. ^ "Lebanon Death Toll Hits 1,300", by Robert Fisk, 17 August 2006, The Independent
  48. ^ Israel Vs. Iran: The Shadow War, by Yaakov Katz, (NY 2012), page 17
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