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Israel's history of wars in Lebanon
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-07-13 15:44

July 13 - Following is a chronology of Israel's history of wars and
occupation in neighbouring Lebanon.

1978 - Israel launches Lebanon offensive against Palestine Liberation
Organisation after militants kill 37 civilians in Israel. Most troops
withdraw within weeks, but Israel leaves Lebanese Christian allies in
charge of border strip.

1982 - Israeli troops again invade Lebanon and reach Beirut. During the
war, Christian Lebanese troops enter Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and
Shatila, which had been guarded by Israeli troops, and massacre hundreds
of civilians.

1985 - Israel pulls back bulk of 1982 invasion force, leaving behind
about 1,000 soldiers to patrol a self-declared "security zone" to prevent
cross-border guerrilla attacks.

1993 - In response to rocket attacks by Iranian-backed Hizbollah
guerrillas, Israel unleashes "Operation Accountability", a week-long air,
artillery and naval blitz in which 130 people, mostly Lebanese civilians,
die.

1996 - Israel launches 17-day blitz, "Operation Grapes of Wrath", that
kills more than 200 Lebanese in retaliation for Hizbollah shelling of
northern Israeli towns.

2000 - Israel completes pullout from south Lebanon in July. In October,
Hizbollah kills three soldiers at the border and takes the bodies back to
Lebanon. Israel later trades Arab prisoners for the bodies and a
kidnapped businessman.

July 12, 2006 - Hizbollah guerrillas seize two Israeli soldiers in a raid
and kill seven soldiers in the heaviest fighting at the border since the
Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon. Israel calls it an "act of war".

July 13 - Israeli aircraft attack Beirut airport and kill more than 20
civilians in attacks on southern Lebanon. Hizbollah fires dozens of
rockets into northern Israeli town of Nahariya, killing at least one
Israeli civilian.

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