After the new Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon on Monday, a reminder of the main clashes between Israel and the Lebanese Islamist movement since their conflict in 2006. The one in July-August 2006 left more than 1,200 dead in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 in Israel, mostly soldiers.
Clashes and incursion
Three Lebanese and an Israeli officer were killed on August 3, 2010, during clashes in the area of the border village of Aadaissé.
Four Israeli soldiers were injured on August 7, 2013 by explosions claimed by Hezbollah, during a 400-meter incursion into Lebanon.
Israeli airstrikes
On October 7, 2014, Israeli artillery shelled two Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, in retaliation for an attack claimed by the Lebanese group that lightly injured two Israeli soldiers in the Shebaa Farms (territory occupied by Israel on the borders of Syria and Lebanon).
On January 28, 2015, two Israeli soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah ambush in the same area, in response to a deadly raid attributed to Israel on January 18 on the Syrian part of the Golan Heights.
In response, the Israeli army bombed several Lebanese villages.
Drone attack and missile strikes
On August 25, 2019, two drones loaded with explosives struck the southern suburbs of Beirut, causing material damage according to Hezbollah, which blames Israel.
The day before, an Israeli strike in Syria had killed two members of the movement.
The 1er September, the Israeli army and Hezbollah exchange missile fire at the border.
New fever outbreak in 2021
In August 2021, Israel responded with airstrikes and artillery fire to rocket fire from Lebanon.
Since October 7, 2023
Cross-border exchanges of fire have been an almost daily occurrence between the Israeli army and Hezbollah since the unprecedented attack launched on October 7, 2023 by the allied Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, against Israel, which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.
On January 2, 2024, Hamas’ number two, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed near Beirut in a strike attributed to Israel.
Hezbollah and Fatah leaders killed
On July 27, a rocket attack killed 12 young people in Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Syrian Golan Heights largely annexed by Israel. Hezbollah denies responsibility.
An Israeli retaliatory strike on the 30th killed a senior Hezbollah military official, Fouad Chokr, near Beirut.
On August 21, an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed Khalil al-Maqdah, a leader of the armed wing of Palestinian Fatah.
Large-scale Hezbollah attack
On August 25, Hezbollah announced that it had “successfully” carried out a large-scale drone and rocket attack against Israel, in response to the death of Fouad Chokr.
Israel says for its part it has destroyed “thousands of rocket launch pads”, foiling this vast attack.
Deadly explosions and new strikes
On September 17 and 18, a wave of explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah in its strongholds in Lebanon, attributed to Israel, left 39 dead and 2,931 injured according to the Lebanese authorities.
Exchanges of fire continued in the following days, with an Israeli strike near Beirut on the 20th killing the head of Hezbollah’s elite unit, Ibrahim Aqil.
On the 23rd, the most intense Israeli strikes in almost a year left nearly 500 dead in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s authorities.