Operation Grapes of Wrath

Operation Grapes of Wrath
Part of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict and the South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
Fighting near a UN post
Date 11–27 April 1996 Location Lebanon, northern Israel Result Ceasefire on civilian targets; much Lebanese infrastructure destroyed.
Belligerents
Israel SLA	Hezbollah  Syria[1]
Commanders and leaders
Shimon Peres Amnon Lipkin-Shahak	Hassan Nasrallah Mustafa Tlass
Casualties and losses
No casualties[2]	13 Hezbollah fighters killed[3][4]
62 Israeli civilians wounded[5] 20,000–30,000 Israeli civilians displaced 149[3] – 250[6] Lebanese civilians killed 354 Lebanese civilians wounded[7] 350,000–500,000[8] Lebanese civilians displaced

Operation Grapes of Wrath (Hebrew: מבצע ענבי זעם Mivtsa Enavi Zaam), known in Lebanon as the April Aggression (Arabic: عدوان نيسان, romanized: ʿUdwān Nīsān), was a seventeen-day campaign of the Israeli Defense Forces against Hezbollah^[9] in 1996 which attempted to end rocket attacks on Northern Israel by the organisation. Israel conducted more than 1,100 air raids and extensive shelling (some 25,000 shells). A UNIFIL compound at Qana was hit when Israeli artillery fired on Hezbollah forces operating nearby. 639 Hezbollah cross-border rocket attacks targeted northern Israel, particularly the town of Kiryat Shemona.^[7] Hezbollah forces also participated in numerous engagements with Israeli and South Lebanon Army forces. The conflict was de-escalated on 27 April by a ceasefire agreement banning attacks on civilians.