Third Lebanon War

Extracted Attributes

• Event Type

  War, Invasion

• War Trigger

  Hezbollah's support for Hamas after October 7 attack, leading to cross-border rocket fire

• Global Impact

  Contributing factor to a growing global risk of nuclear war

• Key Consequence

  Significant dismantling of Hezbollah's military infrastructure and destruction of missile stockpile

• Alternative Name

  2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon

• Lebanese Casualties

  2,720 deaths, predominantly civilians (reported by Lebanese government)

• Mediating Countries

  France, United States

• Ceasefire Agreement Date

  2024-11-26

• Ceasefire Effective Date

  2024-11-27

• Israel's Primary Objective

  Dismantle Hezbollah's military capabilities, destroy military infrastructure, destroy missile stockpile, return displaced Israelis

• Start Date (Ground Invasion)

  2024-10-01

• Israeli Casualties (Soldiers)

  56 soldiers killed (reported by Israel)

• Initial Israeli Withdrawal Deadline

  2025-01-26

• Revised Israeli Withdrawal Deadline

  2025-02-18

• Israeli Casualties (Hezbollah Militants)

  2,762 militants killed (reported by Israel)

Timeline

• Hezbollah initiates conflict against Israel in support of Hamas, launching rockets into northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. (Source: Web Search, Wikipedia)

  2023-10-08

• Assassination of Hezbollah Chief of Staff Fuad Shukr in the Dahiyeh stronghold. (Source: Web Search)

  2024-07-30

• Thousands of pagers, many belonging to Hezbollah members, simultaneously explode across Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 13 people and injuring around 4,000. (Source: Web Search)

  2024-09-17

• Hezbollah and Israel trade heavy fire; Israel hits approximately 290 targets, including Hezbollah rocket launchers. (Source: Web Search)

  2024-09-22

• Assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful series of airstrikes in Beirut. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search)

  2024-09-27

• Israel begins its ground invasion of Southern Lebanon, marking the start of the Third Lebanon War. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search)

  2024-10-01

• Israel and Lebanon sign a ceasefire agreement, mediated by France and the United States. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-11-26

• The ceasefire agreement comes into effect, though sporadic attacks continue. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-11-27

• Initial deadline for Israeli forces to withdraw from Lebanon, which Israel refused. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2025-01-26

• Revised deadline for Israeli withdrawal; Israel did not fully withdraw, maintaining five military outposts in Southern Lebanon. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2025-02-18

2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon

On 1 October 2024, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the sixth Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978. The invasion took place after nearly 12 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. On 26 November, Israel and Lebanon signed a ceasefire agreement, mediated by France and the United States. The ceasefire went into effect on 27 November, though some attacks continue. Hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel erupted shortly after Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, when Hezbollah joined the conflict in support of Hamas, launching rockets into northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Cross borders attacks resulted in a large number of displaced people on both sides of the border. Prior to the incursions, Israel had conducted major attacks in Lebanon including an attack on pagers and electronic devices, and assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel had also conducted an aerial bombing campaign throughout Lebanon, killing over 800 Lebanese people in one week in late September. Israel stated that it had been attacking in Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah's military capabilities so that they no longer pose a threat to it. At the start of the invasion, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) withdrew from parts of the Blue Line. On 27 November, the ceasefire agreement came into effect. Israel has reported 56 of its soldiers and 2,762 Hezbollah militants killed in the invasion, while the Lebanese government has reported Israel killing 2,720 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians. Under the ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces were to withdraw from Lebanon by 26 January 2025, but Israel refused to do so, leading to a new deadline of Israeli withdrawal by 18 February 2025. Israel did not fully withdraw by the new deadline, as it withdrew troops from Lebanese villages but kept Israeli forces maintaining five military outposts on highlands in Southern Lebanon.

Web Search Results

• Analysis: The road to the Third Lebanon War

  However, two things were predictable about this conflict from the outset: the first was that Hezbollah could not back down from attacking Israel in support of Gaza without looking weak and risking its own unraveling. The second was that this war of attrition, having exposed a Hezbollah threat to northern Israel not amenable to diplomatic resolution, would eventually and inevitably evolve into the Third Lebanon War. [...] The conflict that Hezbollah initiated against Israel on October 8, 2023, is now one year old. The group vowed to maintain this “support front” for its allies in the Gaza Strip to bleed Israeli morale and treasure through attrition until a premature ceasefire would allow “the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, and Hamas in particular, to emerge victorious.” But Hezbollah doesn’t understand Israel. It, therefore, misread the Israeli national mood on October 8, bogging itself down in a war of [...] This situation culminated with Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah Chief of Staff Fuad Shukr in the heart of the group’s Dahiyeh stronghold on July 30. Israel had crossed all of Hezbollah’s red lines with the strike, and the group’s underwhelming response on August 25 revealed its limits. From then on, Israel could escalate to tip the weight of attrition heavily against Hezbollah—including by assassinating Nasrallah—while being virtually assured the group had hit its ceiling of violence.

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) - Wikipedia

  An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas' October 7 attacks on Israel. The conflict escalated into a prolonged exchange of bombardments, leading to extensive displacement in Israel and Lebanon. The conflict is part of the broader Middle Eastern crisis "Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)") that began with Hamas' attack, with the short Israeli invasion [...] In September 2024, Israel intensified its operations with two waves of electronic device attacks targeting Hezbollah's communication systems, and later assassinated the group's leading figures, including Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah,( and his successor, Hashem Safieddine. [...] On 1 October, the Israeli military began an invasion of southern Lebanon "Israeli invasion of Lebanon (2024–present)"),( although it had been conducting limited ground operations for some time. Israeli operations led to the significant dismantling of Hezbollah's military infrastructure in southern Lebanon and the destruction of a large portion of its missile stockpile.(

• Israel-Hezbollah timeline: 12 days that transformed a ...

  Sept. 17:Thousands of pagers — many belonging to Hezbollah members — simultaneously explode across Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 13 people, including some children, and injuring around 4,000, hundreds of them critically. Israel is widely believed to be behind the attack, but does not publicly take credit for it. Earlier in the day, Israel had announced a new goal in the war: to return tens of thousands of displaced Israelis who had been driven from their homes near the border with Lebanon [...] Sept. 22:Hezbollah and Israel trade heavy fire overnight and into the early morning hours. In southern Lebanon, residents described huge explosions that lit up the night sky. The Israeli military said it hit some 290 targets, including Hezbollah rocket launchers, while some of Hezbollah’s rockets hit deeper into Israel than they have previously in this war. [...] Israel announced on Saturday that it had killed Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, in a powerful series of airstrikes that rocked Beirut on Friday evening. The Iranian-backed militia later confirmed Nasrallah’s death.

• 2006 Lebanon War

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• Israeli–Lebanese conflict - Wikipedia

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