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This is a timeline of events related to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.


July 2006

July 12

Hezbollah
  • Hezbollah's military wing staged a cross-border attack from Lebanon on two Israeli Humvees, while launching dozens of rockets onto northern-Israeli towns and cities. Three Israeli soldiers were killed and two were captured, with several civilians injured. "Fulfilling its pledge to liberate the Arab prisoners and detainees, the Islamic Resistance... captured two Israeli soldiers at the border with occupied Palestine," Hezbollah said in a statement.[1]

July 13

IDF
  • Impose blockade on Lebanon.
  • Attack on Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport. Two runways damaged.
  • Attack Rayak Air Base in the Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border.
  • Attack small military airport in Qulayaat in northern Lebanon.
  • Israeli navy gunships bombarded an electric power station on the coast at Jiyeh, about 25km south of Beirut.[2]
Hezbollah
  • Hezbollah bombarded the Israeli towns of Nahariya and Safed, as well as villages nearby, with 9K51 Grad rockets. The attacks killed two civilians and wounded 29 more.[3]

July 14

Hezbollah
  • Fired dozens of Katyusha rockets into northern Israel reaching Haifa.
  • Fired two Iranian built C-802 Cruise Missiles of Chinese design - one damages an Israeli Sa'ar 5-class missile boat killing four crew members. The other missile damages a civilian vessel of Egyptian registry. It is later debated whether Hezbollah or Iranian military personnel fired the cruise missiles.
  • Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that Hezbollah is ready for "open war" with Israel.
Iran
Syria
  • The ruling party in Syria, Baath, said that Syria fully backs Hezbollah against the "barbaric Israeli aggression".
IDF
  • Bombs the airport road in the south of the capital, Beirut.
  • Drops leaflets warning residents to stay away from the Hezbollah offices in southern Beirut, where Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is thought to live.
  • Bombs the main highway between Beirut and the Syrian capital of Damascus.
  • Attacked the al-Manar television station. A broadcast tower was destroyed and three people were injured, but the station continued its broadcasts.
  • Warships set up a blockade, preventing cruise ships from docking in Beirut and cutting off the delivery of fuel used to operate Lebanese power plants.
  • Airstrikes and artillery shelling of hundreds of targets in Lebanon.
  • Strikes the Beirut airport, where helicopter gunships damaged runways and destroyed fuel tanks.

Israel

July 15

IDF
  • Warships bombard Beirut's lighthouse and four ports.[7]
  • Air force fired a missile at a van in southern Lebanon, incinerating it and killing 20 people, among them 15 children.[8]
  • Raids on north, east and south Lebanon killed 15 people and wounded 37.
  • Lebanon's main commercial ports of Beirut and Tripoli were attacked, as well as ports in the Christian towns of Jounieh and Amsheet.
  • One Lebanese soldier was killed when an army radar station was hit in Batroun north of Beirut.
  • Warplanes flattened Hizbollah's nine-story headquarters and destroyed the office of a Hamas leader, Mohammed Nazzal. Nazzal survived the attack.
Hezbollah
  • Fires 20 rockets into Haifa killing 8 and wounding 20.
United States

July 16

Hezbollah
  • Nazareth and Afula are hit by Hezbollah rockets, reaching the deepest of all rockets fired by the militant group.[10]
IDF
  • 45 people killed and more than 100 wounded in various air strikes in southern Lebanon around the border town of Aitaroun. Among the dead were seven Canadians, with six other Canadians critically wounded.[11]
  • Air attacks on Beirut's southern suburbs, continued through the day and evening.[11]

July 17

IDF
  • Air force bombs the Palestinian foreign ministry building in Gaza City and completely destroyed what remained of the building, damaging nearby homes. Several injuries were reported.[12]
  • Israeli air strikes targeted a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon, which killed 17 combatants. Hezbollah retaliated by firing away Katyusha rockets thirty-five miles south of the Lebanese border, which landed in the northern Israeli town of Atlit; although, there were no casualties reported.[13]
  • Some Israeli ground troops briefly entered into Lebanon, its southern portion, with the intent of completing a mission of attacking Hezbollah bases on the border.[14]
United Nations / United Kingdom
  • U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urge an international stabilization force to the Mideast to stop the cross-border fighting.[15] Israel responds that it is too early to call for a UN force.[16]
Hezbollah
  • Three rounds of Hezbollah rockets struck the Israeli port city of Haifa, that wounded two people and destroyed a three-story building.[17]
  • Rockets were also reported to have hit the town of Atlit, 35 miles south of the border and 5 miles south of Haifa. No injuries were reported. [18]
Canada
  • Canadians gather in front of the Israeli consulate in Montreal to protest the Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "IDF retrieves bodies of four tank soldiers killed in south Lebanon". HAARETZ. 2006-07-14. Retrieved 2006-07-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Beirut power station bombed". Herald Sun. 2006-07-14. Retrieved 2006-07-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Woman killed in Hizbullah attack in Nahariya". Jerusalem Post. 2006-07-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Olmert orders new Lebanon strikes". BBC. 2006-07-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Ahmadinejad: Israel would not dare to move against Iran". Haaretz. 2006-07-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Syria says fully backs Hizbollah against Israel". Reuters. 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2006-07-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Israel continues bombing". Reuters. 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2006-07-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Israel kills 35 civilians in strikes on Lebanon". Reuters. 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2006-07-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Israeli Army: Hezbollah Rockets Hit Merchant Ship". WNBC. 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2006-07-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Hezbollah Rockets Reach Deeper Into Israel".
  11. ^ a b "Canadian Family Dies in Attack".
  12. ^ "Israel bombs Palestinian foreign ministry building".
  13. ^ "Israeli Forces Kill 17 in Lebanon Attacks".
  14. ^ "Israel Briefly Sends Troops Into Lebanon". WRAL. 2006-07-17. Retrieved 2006-07-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ "Annan, Blair call for Mideast 'stabilization force'".
  16. ^ "Swiss join exodus from Lebanon".
  17. ^ "2 wounded in Hezbollah strike on Haifa". The News-Sentinel. 2006-07-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ "Israel hammers at Lebanese infrastructure". The Associated Press. {{cite news}}: Text "2006-07-17" ignored (help)
  19. ^ "Montreal's Lebanese reacts". The Globe and Mail. 2006-07-14. Retrieved 2006-07-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)


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