At the center of the hostilities between the two countries is the issue of Palestine. Israel’s friction with Lebanon began when the latter absorbed more than 100,000 Palestinian refugees in the ...

The disruption and damage they wrought was "unprecedented in the history of the resistance in Lebanon," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah -- himself killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on ...

Lebanon fights alongside other Arab countries against the nascent state of Israel. Around 100,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes in what had been British-ruled Palestine ...

One of Israel’s first targets in Lebanon was Ghassan Kanafani, a prominent Palestinian author and poet who was assassinated on July 8, 1972 in Beirut along with his 17-year-old niece.

Lebanon fights alongside other Arab countries against the nascent state of Israel. Around 100,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes in what had been British-ruled Palestine ...

1948: The state of Israel declared independence on May 14. The next day, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon declared war on Israel. Lebanon had the smallest army of the Arab nations.

Israel-Gaza War A timeline of conflict on the Israel-Lebanon border For decades, Israel has seen Hezbollah as a major threat. But through rounds of conflict and war, it has not won a decisive victory.

Nevertheless, Hamas's creation of the new body, named after its Al-Aqsa Flood assault on Israel that resulted in the deaths of around 1,200 people, recalled the troubled history of Palestinian ...

But it was not the first time Israel sought to turn everyday items into weapons. In 1972, for example, Palestine Liberation Organization cadre Bassam Abu Sharif -- a former senior advisor to PLO ...

Israel, which has engaged in border warfare with Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement for a year in parallel with the Gaza conflict, has a long history of military incursions and invasions in ...