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Oz Naor Israeli Emissary January 2011. The Lebanese conflict. The Middle East. Movements & Organizations Operation Litany - 1978 Lebanon war - began on 6 June 1982. 1985 Israel withdrawals from Beirut and forms the security strip. Prier to 1995. Movements & Organizations. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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THE LEBANESE CONFLICT
Oz NaorIsraeli Emissary
January 2011
THE MIDDLE EAST
PRIER TO 1995
Movements & Organizations Operation Litany - 1978 Lebanon war - began on 6 June 1982. 1985 Israel withdrawals from Beirut and
forms the security strip.
MOVEMENTS & ORGANIZATIONS
Amal Movement
Hezbollah
Palestine Liberation Organization
1978 OPERATION ”LITANY”
PLO (expelled from Jordan 1970; led by Yasser Arafat) and Syrian forces launching raids and rockets into northern Israel from southern Lebanon during Lebanese civil war.Israel responded in 1978 by damaging attacks against PLO bases
The operation in South Lebanon included an invasion in Lebanon up to the Litany River carried out by the Israel Defense Forces . It was a military success as PLO forces were pushed north of the river. However, objections from the Lebanese government led to the creation of the UNIFIL peace keeping force and a partial Israeli withdrawal.
1982 “SHLOM HAGALIL”
UNIFIL force failed to keep rocket attacks from south Lebanon on civilian population in the Galil
During 1981 Attacks – 29 Israelis killed and 300 injured.
June 3, 1982 – Assassination attempt on Israeli ambassador to Great Britain.
June 6, 1982– Operation Peace for the Galilee “Shlom HaGalil” led by Ariel Sharon as the Minster of Defense, is set up to stop the PLO establishment in Lebanon.
THE SECURITY ZONE
• 1985 PLO is chased out of Lebanon, IDF creates a scurity zone 20 mile north of the border. Hezbollah overcome AMAL and gains control over the Siha forces in south Lebanon.
• Syria and Iran begin support for Hezbollah in Lebanon to continue fight against Israel
1993 - 1996 1993 - On July 25, 1993, Israeli forces launched a week-long attack
against Lebanon named Operation Accountability in Israel and the Seven-Day War in Lebanon. Israel specified three purposes to the operation, to strike directly at Hezbollah, to make it difficult for Hezbollah to use southern Lebanon as a base for striking Israel, and to displace refugees in the hopes of pressuring the Lebanese government to intervene against Hezbollah. The affected civilian population included both Lebanese and Palestinian refugees.
1996 - Operation “Grapes of Wrath” ) is the Israeli Defense Forces code-name for a sixteen-day military blitz against Lebanon in 1996 in an attempt to end shelling of Northern Israel by Hezbollah.
IDF DISASTERS IN LEBANON
In February 1997, two Israeli military helicopters ferrying troops into the Security Zone collided, killing over 70 soldiers on board.
The shayetet 13 disaster in antzriya 1998
Brigadier general Erez Gerstein
FOUR MOTHERS MOVEMENT Out of the helicopters trauma, a number of women that their
sons serving in Lebanon came together and drafted an open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on him to bring the boys home. The women's letter would, over the coming weeks, evolve into The Four Mothers Movement.
IDF WITHDRAWAL MAY 2000
Over the course of two days in May 2000, the IDF full withdrew from the Security Zone.
Recognizing the shift in public sentiment, Ehud Barak, the Labor Party's candidate for Prime Minister, announced that if elected he would move to bring the IDF back to the blue line.
HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS OCTOBER 2000
7 Oct 2000 - Kidnapping: Three IDF soldiers: Adi Avitan, Omer Soued and Binyamin Avraham were
kidnapped by the Hizballah from the Mt. Dov sector.
JANUARY 29, 2004 PRISONER EXCHANGE
The 3 kidnapped Israeli solders and one citizen are returned in exchange for 400 Palestinian terrorist and 36 minority prisoners.
Israel Lebanon
In a meticulously-planned attack by the Hizbullah, terrorists infiltrated into Israel early Wednesday morning (12 july 2006) and fired anti-tank rockets at an IDF patrol along the western border near Zarit, killing three soldiers and abducting another two.
Udi Goldwasser
Eldad Regev
HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS JULY 2006
HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS
In a meticulously-planned attack by the Hizbullah, terrorists infiltrated into Israel early Wednesday morning (12 july 2006) and fired anti-tank rockets at an IDF patrol along the western border near Zarit, killing three soldiers and abducting another two.
while firing rockets to civilian aims in northern Israel.
Hedera
THE SECOND LEBANON WAR
HEROES
Major Tomer Bohadana Major Roy Kline
Dr. Nimrod Adi
UN RESOLUTION 1701 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 is a resolution
that was intended to resolve the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. The Resolution demands: Full cessation of hostilities Israel to withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon in parallel with
Lebanese and UNIFIL soldiers deploying throughout the South Hezbollah to be disarmed Full control of Lebanon by the government of Lebanon No paramilitary forces, including (and implying) Hezbollah, will be
south of the Litani River The Resolution at the same time also emphasizes: The need to address urgently the unconditional release of the
abducted Israeli soldiers, that have given rise to the current crisis.
WINOGRAD REPORTThe Winograd Commission-is an Israeli government-appointed commission of inquiry, chaired by retired judge Eliyahu Winograd, which investigated and drew lessons from the Israel-Hezbollah War
JULY 16, 2008 PRISONER EXCHANGE
Israel Lebanon
The 2 kidnapped Israeli solders returned in exchange for 5 Palestinian terrorist among them Samir Kuntar and 195 terrorist bodies.
TODAY IN LEBANON
JULY 2010
1. After receiving authorization from the U.N. peacekeeping forces (UNIFIL) Israel’s army operates a “cherry picker” to cut down a tree inside the Israeli border.
2. The ill-fated tree the IDF was cutting down when Lebanon attacked.
3. & 4. U.N. peacekeeping troops stand watching as Lebanon shoots at Israeli soldiers.
5. Israel soldier returns fire.
6. U.N. soldier waving to Israel to stop tree cutting. (The following day, Israel’s army personnel returned to finish cutting down the tree.)
QUESTIONS
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