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Hezbollah
History of Israel
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| | 1982 | Begin, Menachem | |
| Hezbollah is formed with Iranian help as a radical offshoot of Amal, a Shiite Muslim movement. |
| 6th June Islamic radicals, including Naim Qassem, form Hezbollah (Hizbullah, i.e. Party of God) in response to Israels' invasion of Lebanon |
| 1993 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| 25th July Israel launches its heaviest artillery and air assault on Lebanon since 1982 in an attempt to eradicate Hezbollah and Palestinian guerrilla threats |
| 27th July Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas |
| 31st July The fighting ended July 31 with a US-brokered cease-fire, Israel and Hezbollah the agree not to attack civilian targets, but the cease-fire is short lived |
| 1995 | Peres, Shimon | |
| Nov Lebanese guerrillas of the Hezbollah fire rockets into northern Israel, Israeli warplanes retaliated by hitting rebel strongholds |
| 2006 | Olmert, Ehud | |
| July G-8 meeting calls for cessation of violence, return of Israeli soldier and disarmament of Hezbolla in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1559 and UN Security Council Resolution 1680 |
| 12th July Hezbollah begin a series of rocket attacks on northern Israel |
| 12th July Hezbollah terrorists cross the blue line border with Lebanon, attack an Israeli patrol, killing 3 and capturing 2 soldiers |
| 12th July Israel carriy out selective reprisals bombing and artillery shelling of Lebanon, hitting rocket stores, Hezbollah headquarters in the Dahya quarter of Beirut and al-Manara television in Beirut, and killing over two hundred |
| 17th July Hezbollah responds with several hundred rocket attacks on Haifa, Tiberias , Safed and other towns deep in northern Israel, killing 13 civilians |
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