Lebanon War 2006 / Timeline

The 2006 Lebanon War was an escalation in the Middle East conflict . The events are presented chronologically below:

July

July 12, 2006

Map of the border section in which the incident took place

• On the morning of July 12, Hezbollah fighters stationed in southern Lebanon fired Katyusha rockets targeting the Israeli city of Shlomi ( different spelling: Shelomi ) and the Israeli-occupied Shebaa farms . The Hezbollah military wing also launched a border attack on two Israeli military vehicles from Lebanon. Here took guerrilla units Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed three others. After the capture became known, Israeli forces advanced with ground troops into southern Lebanon in order to pursue the Hezbollah militiamen and to free the kidnapped soldiers.
• On the part of Hezbollah was declared aim of the so-called Operation Truthful Promise ( " True Promise ") is the liberation of all "prisoners from Israeli jails."
• With Operation Just Reward (“Just Reward”, Israeli term), Israel then began a large-scale offensive against Hezbollah, which operates from Lebanon. The Israeli Air Force carried out more than 100 air strikes on Hezbollah positions and weapons depots, as well as on roads and bridges that could be used to transport the kidnapped soldiers.
• Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel sees the Lebanese government as responsible for the fate of the soldiers. The attacks by Hezbollah, which had two ministers in the Lebanese government, were also seen as aggression by the state of Lebanon. Dan Chalutz , Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, threatened to "turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years" if the kidnapped soldiers are not released. Israeli media reported that the army was preparing to mobilize thousands of reservists for a major offensive in Lebanon.

July 13, 2006

Beirut Airport, photo is from 2004

• The Israeli air force bombed roads, bridges, Beirut airport and suspected Hezbollah positions in the south of the country, presumably to prevent the kidnapped soldiers from being taken further from the border. More than 70 Lebanese civilians were killed. Israeli warships fired rockets for the second time on the runway at Beirut airport .
• According to Israeli sources, Hezbollah militiamen fired rockets at the Israeli city of Haifa on the evening of July 13th . Hezbollah denied this and the claim that it had used Iranian weapons in the process. Hezbollah fired Katyusha missiles into the cities of Nahariya and Safed, as well as a number of nearby towns . Two civilians were killed and 29 injured in these attacks .

Map showing the Israeli localities attacked by Hezbollah.

July 14, 2006

• From July 14th, Lebanon was sealed off by Israel with a complete blockade . First, sea access by the navy and air access was blocked by repeated bombing of Beirut and other airports in order to prevent Hezbollah from receiving weapons supplies by air from Syria, Iran or other states. The Israeli Air Force took control of Lebanese airspace. After that, the main land transport routes - such as the road connection via the Mdeiredsch region to Syria  - and supply facilities were interrupted or destroyed by bombing.
• On the same day, Hezbollah attacked several northern Israeli locations with around 100 Katyusha rockets (the cities of Nahariya , Safed , Hatzor , Rosh Pina , Kiryat Shmona and the settlements of Matat , Sasa, Peki'in, Beit Jan, Biria, Biranit, Kabri, Gesher Haziv, Saar and Ben Ami). 30 people were injured. Two civilians died in the city of Meron.
• The INS Hanit , an Israeli Sa'ar-5- class warship , was fired at and badly damaged off Beirut with a coastal-sea missile of Chinese design; four sailors were killed. It is disputed whether it was hit by a Katyusha missile or, as announced by the Israeli side, by an Iranian - made C-802 missile or by a drone .
• Ehud Olmert reaffirmed three demands to the United Nations that Israel wants to see fulfilled: Hezbollah must release the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers, end their rocket attacks and Lebanon must comply with UN resolution 1559 (dissolution of all paramilitary militias in Lebanon).
• The White House spokesman stressed on July 14th that the US will not put pressure on Israel to enforce a ceasefire with Lebanon. The Lebanese government signaled its willingness to negotiate, but rejected any responsibility for the kidnapping of the soldiers and distanced itself from Hezbollah, which had two ministers in the cabinet at the time. Information Minister Ghazi al-Aridi called for an immediate ceasefire after a crisis meeting. The Druze leader , Walid Jumblat , accused Iran and Syria of trying to destabilize Lebanon with Hezbollah attacks on Israel. Hezbollah general secretary Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah announced an "open war" against Israel.

July 15, 2006

• On Saturday, July 15, the Israeli army expanded its offensive in Lebanon. Roads and bridges across the country, the southern districts and suburbs of Beirut (including Haret Hreik ) , which are considered the stronghold of Hezbollah , fuel depots such as the one near Sidon in the south of the country and the Lebanese air bases near Rayak in the east and Koleyat in the north of the country were shot at . Air strikes on the main residential area of ​​the Christian Maronites , who are classified as predominantly anti-Syrian and pro-Western, were new . In the afternoon, port facilities in the densely built-up high-rise bay of Jounieh , which is almost exclusively inhabited by Christians , were shot at.
• According to the military, around 150 targets in Lebanon had been attacked by then, around a dozen of them directly related to Hezbollah. The Lebanese side officially confirmed that Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut was destroyed in an air strike. The border crossing between Lebanon and Syria near Masnaa was also attacked. Three people died in the process. Subsequent reports that Israel had now also attacked Syria were denied by both states. Hezbollah continued its rocket attacks on cities in northern Israel, including targets in Tiberias .
• Britain dispatched six warships for a possible evacuation,

including an aircraft carrier to the Middle East and relocated Chinook helicopters to Cyprus. France sent two warships and a civilian ferry. Between July 15 and 16, two Hercules transport aircraft of the Italian Air Force flew from the Syrian port city of Latakia a total of 460 civilians of various nationalities who had previously been brought by bus from Lebanon. ^{(Document is missing)}

July 16, 2006

Embassy staff leave the helicopter in Cyprus.

• A total of nine people were killed by rockets in an attack on Haifa, eight of them when a train depot was hit, and 23 others were injured.
• Meanwhile, Lebanon accused the US of blocking a statement by the UN Security Council .
• A military advance team arrived on the premises of the US embassy in Beirut to prepare for the departure of the Americans. The team was flown in from Cyprus in attack helicopters , according to CNN .
• An Israeli attack on Aitarun killed eight Canadians of Lebanese origin who had visited their relatives in Lebanon on vacation. This was announced by the Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay on the television channel CTV .

July 17, 2006

• On July 17, 2006, UN mediators submitted a mediation proposal to the Lebanese Hezbollah to end military operations in the Middle East. They were supported by the EU.
• At least 33 people were killed in further Israeli air strikes in Lebanon, including at least 21 people in an attack on a village near the southern Lebanese port of Tire. For the first time, the Israeli Air Force shelled downtown Beirut. In the port of Beirut while two people died after Lebanese information.
• Hezbollah fired several rockets at northern Israel in the morning and attacked the city of Atlit , 56 km south of the border in northern Israel, with Katyusha rockets. No casualties were reported. A missile hit Afula (about 50 km from the Lebanese border). No Hezbollah missile had flown that far into the Israeli hinterland.
• The Israeli army broadcaster reported that Israel was planning to set up a kind of security zone in Lebanon on the border with Israel. It should be prevented that Hezbollah fighters approached closer than a kilometer to the Israeli border. The army advanced into southern Lebanon with bulldozers with the aim of destroying abandoned Hezbollah positions and establishing a security zone.
• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for international troops to be sent to the region to end the attacks from Lebanon on Israel.
• Many European countries, as well as Morocco and the USA, began to relocate their citizens. Around 2,000 German citizens were flown out. Britain began Operation Highbrow . The Italian destroyer Durand-de-la-Penne brought 345 refugees of various nationalities from Beirut to Larnaka .

July 18, 2006

• Israel continued the air strikes. At least eleven soldiers died in a barracks near Beirut, as the Lebanese army explained.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that more than 400,000 people in Lebanon are fleeing from Israeli air strikes. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates the number of refugees at around 30,000.

July 19, 2006

• Iran's ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad-Reza Sheybani meets with Lebanese President Émile Lahoud . The topic of the meeting was the question of how far Iran can help Lebanon in the attacks by Israel. Iran speaks of a war against Israel for the liberation of the Palestinian people.
• When ground troops penetrated Lebanon, there were direct skirmishes with Hezbollah. Two Israeli soldiers are said to have died. An eyewitness reported that another soldier had been abducted.
• Israel continued to fire on targets in the south, east and north of Lebanon and downtown Beirut. Most of the at least 72 fatalities, according to the authorities, were buried under the rubble of their homes.

July 20, 2006

Balustrade of a house in Beirut that was destroyed on July 20, 2006.

• The Israeli Air Force reportedly dropped 23 tons of bombs on a bunker that night to kill Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah , who was in the bunker according to intelligence reports. Hezbollah denied this, claiming that a mosque under construction had been bombed.
• The Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Jigal Palmor , called on Germany and the European Union to help release the kidnapped Israeli soldiers.
• Four Israeli soldiers died and five others were wounded in skirmishes between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Hezbollah in southern Lebanon near Moschav Avivim.
• Around midnight, two Apache helicopters belonging to the Israeli Air Force collided near the Lebanese border . In the accident

one pilot died and three others were injured. The clash took place in the vicinity of the Israeli city of Kiriyat Shmonah.

• On the night of July 20-21, several ships with foreign citizens (including Mexican, Spanish and around 900 Canadian citizens) who were evacuated from Lebanon via the Beirut port arrived in the southern Turkish port city of Mersin . Many traveled straight to Istanbul or Adana , where the nearest airport is.

July 21, 2006

Coat of arms of Israel

• Israel urged the Lebanese people south of the Litani to do the

Leave the area because a ground offensive is planned. About 250,000 people live in the area. The Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr announced that the Lebanese army would fulfill its defense mandate and defend Lebanon against a ground offensive by Israel. Up until that point, the Lebanese army only defended itself when attacked.

• An international group of lawyers accused Israel and Hezbollah of having committed war crimes in their recent battles. Israel's “disproportionate and indiscriminate” use of force by air strikes against civilian targets in Lebanon amounts to a collective punishment, the International Commission of Jurists said. Collective punishment is a war crime under international law. The rocket fire of northern Israeli cities by Hezbollah could be seen as a violation of international humanitarian law because the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of the Civilian Population in Conflicts also apply to armed groups.
• Israel accused Syria before the UN Security Council of instigating the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militias in order to divert attention from the Iranian nuclear program. Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said in New York that there was written evidence of this.

July 22, 2006

Demonstration against the Lebanon War on July 22nd in Bremen .

• 250 citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States were flown out of Lebanon.
• the Israeli Air Force destroyed several television and cellular radio transmission systems in Fatka and Terbol, which particularly affected the LBC and the Hezbollah- affiliated Al-Manar television station .
• In the afternoon, according to Israeli information, the Israeli army advanced with heavy equipment and around 2,000 soldiers into southern Lebanon after smaller troops had repeatedly attacked Hezbollah positions on Lebanese territory the days before. Benni Gantz , the commander of the ground troops, reported the capture of the city of Marun al-Ras , which the Lebanese side denied. There it was said that the Israeli troops had only advanced a few hundred meters into Lebanon. Marun al-Ras is about 1.4 kilometers from the border with Israel. Hezbollah said about 20 Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting over the site.
• Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets at Israel. At least four people were injured in several villages.
• Israel has requested the United States to deliver precision bombs, according to a report in the New York Times . The country requested the weapons after it began air strikes on targets by the Shiite Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, the newspaper reported on July 22, 2006.
• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described the fighting in Lebanon as the "birth pangs of a new Middle East".

July 23, 2006

Syria coat of arms

• In an interview with the Spanish magazine ABC , the Syrian Minister of Information Mohsen Bilal commented on the possible upcoming Israeli offensive in southern Lebanon and announced that Syria would then actively intervene in the conflict. Syria could intervene. "If the Israeli troops provoke us [Syria] , Damascus will act to guarantee the national security of Syrian territory."
• The Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the German Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier that Israel could accept a UN protection force led by NATO with a comprehensive mandate in southern Lebanon. This protection force must be able to keep Hezbollah at a distance from Israel. The Israeli Prime Minister Olmert also welcomed the deployment of an international peacekeeping force that he could envision under the leadership of the European Union.

July 24, 2006

• Israeli troops advanced into the vicinity of the southern Lebanese border village of Bint Jubail . They fought fierce skirmishes with Hezbollah fighters. A militia spokesman in Beirut confirmed "heavy fighting with automatic rifles and armor piercing weapons". The Israeli army suspects several hundred Hezbollah fighters in the city. Hezbollah also confirmed the Israeli capture of the border town of Marun al-Ras .
• Two soldiers died when an IAF helicopter crashed in Israel near the Lebanon border. Hezbollah claimed to have shot down the helicopter.
• Lebanese President Émile Lahoud accused the Israeli military of using phosphorus bombs in his offensive in Lebanon . The Israeli army denied the allegations. With the weapons used in Lebanon, the military does not violate any international norms.
• Federal Defense Minister Jung said he could envision German participation in an international peacekeeping force.

July 25, 2006

• The Israeli army continued its limited operation advance on Bint Jubail (Bint Jbeil) and claimed to have captured the border town. Eight of their soldiers died in the process. Bint Jubail was considered the stronghold of Hezbollah.
• Additional troops have been concentrated on the Israeli northern border. Israel flew at least 47 air strikes on southern Lebanon.
• Hezbollah again fired about 102 rockets at northern Israel, injuring 18 people.
• Three people, including an 8-year-old child, were injured in two cluster bomb attacks by Hezbollah on the Galilean village of Mghar with the Chinese Type 81 rocket in the early afternoon of July 25. Human Rights Watch documented the attack but was not able to announce it until October 19, 2006 because of Israeli security concerns.
• Lebanese officials said at least 398 people have been killed and over 1,400 wounded on the Lebanese side since the fighting began. According to official information, 50 people (including 19 civilians) were killed and over 300 wounded on the Israeli side. (without the victims in Bint Jbeil ).

• On the evening of July 25, an Israeli precision-guided missile struck a UNTSO observation post near Khiam , killing four soldiers from the UN protection force from China, Finland, Canada and Austria. UN Secretary General Annan spoke of an "apparently deliberate attack by Israeli forces". Israel denied the charge. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert formally apologized for the army's "mistake". The Israeli Foreign Ministry declared: "Israel is not targeting UN employees." According to a UNIFIL spokesman, there had already been 14 near hits during the day and the shelling is said to have continued even during the rescue work. In addition, the UNIFIL commander had previously contacted Israeli officers six times and asked them not to bomb the position. According to the broadcaster n-tv , Israeli military experts “do not believe in coincidence” and the Lebanese suspect that “Israel probably did not want any witnesses before their planned attack on Hezbollah positions in El Khiam”.
• “That was on purpose,” accused UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Israel. The Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman denied the allegation and warned not to anticipate the results of the investigation into the incident.
• According to agency reports, Israel expects 10,000 to 20,000 foreign soldiers to secure the area.
• At the Lebanon conference in Rome, the Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora called for compensation for the “barbaric destruction” in his country

Country. Israel could not “continue to ignore international law”.

• The first UN aid deliveries, consisting of food, reached southern Lebanon in a truck convoy over the destroyed road links, where around 165,000 people were cut off or on the run. $ 150 million has been donated to the United Nations World Food Program . The German Red Cross announced aid deliveries, including 20 tons of baby food.

July 26, 2006

Map with the blue line showing the border between Israel and Lebanon established in 1949. The villages in the south of Lebanon, as shown in the direct border area with Israel, are also shown here.

• Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in the fighting over the city of Bint Jubail , which is defended by Hezbollah.
• Hezbollah chief Nasrallah announced that the rocket attacks would be extended to southern Israel.
• The Israeli daily Maariw reported that Chief of Staff Dan Chalutz had ordered the Israeli Air Force to destroy ten multi-story buildings in Beirut for every missile hit.

• On July 26th, a second group of 60 volunteer fighters from the Iranian capital Tehran is said to have been unofficially sent off on their journey to Lebanon. They would plan to unite with the 200 Iranian fighters who have been on their way for two days and want to cross Turkish territory unarmed. Iranian government agencies have announced that they will not officially send fighters, but will not put any obstacles in the way of volunteers. The chairman of the non-governmental Iranian student councils, Amir Jalilinejad , announced more waves of volunteers to be recruited. “We are the first wave of Iranian fighters. More will follow from here and other Muslim nations around the world. Hezbollah needs our help. ”The groups also include old men over 70 years of age who have war experience and are supposed to guide students who only have basic military experience.
• An international Lebanon conference is taking place in Rome . In addition to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the participants include representatives from Lebanon , France , Great Britain , Russia , Egypt , Saudi Arabia , Jordan , the UN and the EU . The joint statement said: "The participants in the Rome Conference are determined to work immediately, with the greatest possible urgency, for a ceasefire that puts an end to the current violence and hostility."
• As a consequence of the death of the four UN observers, the UN announced on July 28, 2006 that it would withdraw its troops from Lebanon. In fact, UNIFIL only intends to temporarily move the unarmed observers from the posts at Marwahin and Markaba to safer positions. In addition, Kofi Annan recommended that the UNIFIL mandate, which expired on July 31, 2006, should only be extended for one month due to the changed situation.
• The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced a full investigation into the incident in cooperation with the UN.
• With its veto, the US is preventing a condemnation of Israel in the UN Security Council. The point of dispute was whether Israel deliberately shelled the UN base.

July 27, 2006

• France announced that it would submit a draft Lebanon resolution to the UN Security Council. According to this, an international force under the mandate of the United Nations should disarm Hezbollah and ensure compliance with a ceasefire.
• UN observers revealed that Hezbollah is apparently intentionally using UN observer posts as a protective shield. A few days before the attack, one of the killed observers emailed his commander that the Hezbollah militia was carrying out its activities around the UN post.
• The historian Michael Wolffsohn criticized UN Secretary General Annan: “Annan is a tragic flop from his time as the person responsible for the UN peacekeeping force. Due to incompetence, he has thousands of lives on his conscience in Rwanda and Srebrenica . ”In his current role, Annan is“ a representative of an organized international mainstream against Israel ”. Wolffsohn also claimed that Hezbollah often stationed its positions in residential areas, in hospitals and also in UN observation posts.

July 28, 2006

• Chirac and Blair demand a "fastest possible" UN resolution with the aim of an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East. The Elysée Palace announced.
• According to Lebanese sources, three residential buildings were bombed near Nabatijeh . Three people were killed and nine wounded, including four children.
• The US State Department announces that it plans to support the Lebanese army with US $ 10 million. The money should be used to modernize the army so that it can also establish a presence in the south and take action against the Hezbollah fighters. The expenditure has yet to be approved by the US Congress.

July 29, 2006

• Hezbollah attacked Israel for the first time with the Fajr-5 rocket , which can reach up to 75 km . The target of the attacks was the city of Afula south of Haifa . Israel now fears attacks on Tel Aviv . Another UN observation post was attacked by Israeli planes and two Indian UN soldiers were wounded.
• Israel is partially withdrawing from the Lebanese city of Bint Jubail .
• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Middle East to meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora . She announced that a ceasefire is longingly awaited, but that it is important "that this takes place on conditions that make it a viable one". She said the evening after a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the conditions for a ceasefire could possibly be presented in a UN draft resolution on Tuesday, August 1st.
• Israel announced that it would advocate a temporary peacekeeping force that will ensure that Hezbollah is displaced from Israel's borders and that will monitor Lebanon's border with Syria. Saudi Arabia, a key United States ally in the Middle East, urged President George W. Bush to work out plans for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange.

July 30, 2006

Coat of arms of Lebanon

• According to the Lebanese Red Cross, at least 28 people were killed in an Israeli air strike with a so-called precision bomb on the southern Lebanese village of Kana . Initial media reports of higher casualties in the airstrike on Kana were found to be false, and even Human Rights Watch made the mistake. In an initial response, the Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman stated that the 56 dead in Cana "may have been killed by Israeli fire, but they are the victims of Hezbollah."
• Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has canceled his scheduled meeting with Condoleezza Rice in response to the attack. He thanked the radical Islamic Hezbollah militia for their "victims" in the war against Israel. "We are in a strong position," said the politician.
• Another air strike on a house in the southern Lebanese border village of Yaroun killed 5 civilians, including 2 children.
• The armed arm of the Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad has announced suicide attacks in Israel in the coming days in view of the recent Israeli attacks. "After the ongoing attacks and the great massacres that the Zionist enemy carried out in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and southern Lebanon - this morning in Cana - the Al-Kuds Brigades had given instructions for suicide attacks. This was announced by a spokesman for the organization of the AFP agency .
• The attacks by Israel on Lebanon's oil tanks triggered an environmental disaster along 100 kilometers of coast. Tens of thousands of tons of oil have flowed into the Mediterranean. The extent of the damage cannot yet be estimated because the environmentalists cannot work on site because of the attacks.
• A UN base in Gaza was stormed by Palestinians in protest against the air strike on Cana. A spokesman for the United Nations reported on the looting of the buildings and spoke of a "very tense situation" . But the staff managed to escape. According to eyewitness reports, at least two people were injured in the incident. People are said to be followers of Islamic Jihad. They threw stones and fired firearms in the air.

Pro-Israel demonstration on July 30, 2006 in London , Great Britain .

• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan sharply criticized the Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese village of Kana on Sunday in front of the UN Security Council and insisted on an immediate ceasefire. The American UN Ambassador John Bolton expressed to journalists the expectation that the Council would express its "deep regrets" to Lebanon and especially to the bereaved. The US would not join a call for a ceasefire, said Bolton. Lebanon convened the UN Security Council on Sunday.
• In the evening, Israel promised a 48-hour cessation of air strikes to evacuate the remaining population in southern Lebanon, which the UN should carry out in 24 hours. Israel wants to clear up the incidents in Cana in an additional 24 hours. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had previously rejected an immediate ceasefire. His country needs at least ten days to end the offensive. At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Kofi Annan called for an "immediate cessation of the fighting", while the Security Council only warned of "serious consequences for the humanitarian situation should the fighting continue".

July 31, 2006

• The Israeli military said the government-promised ceasefire began at 1:00 a.m. CEST. In response to the cessation of air strikes, Hezbollah will also stop firing rockets on northern Israel for 48 hours.
• According to the army, the Israeli Air Force has flown an air strike in southern Lebanon to protect, it was said, ground troops operating near the southern Lebanese cities of Taibeh and Kila. An Israeli tank was previously hit there by a Hezbollah missile, the army said. The ceasefire proclaimed by Israel did not apply to the operations of the ground forces. Using armored bulldozers, Israeli forces destroyed bunkers, obstacles and infantry positions that Hezbollah had established in the area since 2000. Thousands of civilians took advantage of the relative calm to escape the fighting in southern Lebanon.
• Iran's Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki met his French counterpart Philippe Douste-Blazy in the Lebanese capital Beirut that evening to discuss the war . France had promised Iran an important role in the effort for peace in Lebanon and for the stability of the entire Middle East. Contacts with the leadership in Tehran are therefore important, said the French foreign minister, who opposed US policies.
• Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced that he wanted to intensify the military operation against Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has ruled out an early armistice. “We are determined to win this fight. We will not give up our goal of a free life without terror, ”he said. A ceasefire is possible immediately after the deployment of peacekeeping forces.

• The UN has postponed its meeting to prepare a possible international peacekeeping force for Lebanon indefinitely. A UN representative said the meeting scheduled for today had been postponed until there was "more political clarity" on the path to be followed. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council extended the mandate for the UNIFIL mission by one month (Resolution 1697). The mission, which has existed since 1978 , may be replaced by an international peacekeeping force from the United Nations .
• The Israeli police have rejected a military report that rockets from the Lebanese Hezbollah militia have once again hit northern Israel. No new missiles had been fired at northern Israel. The Israeli military had previously announced that the city of Kirjat Shmona on the border with Lebanon had been hit by rockets.

August

August 1, 2006

Baschar al-Assad (Ricardo Stuckert / ABr, 2003)

• The Syrian head of state Bashar al-Assad has put the military in his country in increased operational readiness. He justified this with the "international situation and the challenges in the region". That is why vigilance is needed, Assad said.
• During the night the Israeli cabinet gave the green light for an expansion of the ground offensive against the Shiite Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon. In fierce fighting in the border area there were again dead and injured. The cabinet followed a recommendation from the military, said a government representative. According to military radio , the plan is for Israeli soldiers to advance to the Litani . The river is about 30 kilometers north of the Israeli-Lebanese border. The air strikes also continued despite the 48-hour ceasefire. The army has emphasized that in the event of a "direct threat" the bombing would continue. According to Justice Minister Ramon, the attacks from the air should be fully resumed from August 2, 2006. Prime Minister Olmert said a ceasefire was possible in the foreseeable future. But there could not be an immediate ceasefire because the offensive had not yet ended. It was said that more reservists should be called up. There are three divisions , which would mean at least 15,000 soldiers.
• The Israeli artillery became involved in violent firefights with Hezbollah army units in the city of Ayta al-Sha'b . A 500 pound bomb was also used. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Hezbollah was being weakened more and more by the Israeli forces, day by day, and that there would only be a ceasefire if Israel can be sure that another war is ruled out in the future.

• The Israeli Justice Minister Chaim Ramon announced on the evening of August 1 that the air strikes in Lebanon would resume “in full” after the 48-hour deadline. Ramon said on Israeli television that the air force would again bomb unreservedly targets of the radical Hezbollah militia from the night of August 2.
• On the night of August 2, 2006, the Israeli armed forces were operating in the region around Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon - around 80 kilometers from the Lebanese capital Beirut - near the Syrian border.

August 2, 2006

• During Operation Sharp and Smooth , special forces landed in the vicinity of the city of Baalbek in northeast Lebanon and kidnapped five patients from a hospital. In Lebanese media reports, it was said that the Israeli unit, which was dropped by helicopter near the hospital, was looking for the soldiers who were suspected of being abducted by the radical Islamic Hezbollah. Baalbek is over 100 km from the Israeli border. According to Hezbollah, the abductees are civilians. Other Lebanese sources suspect that the operation aimed to kidnap a senior Hezbollah member, Mohammed Yazbek, which failed. According to Lebanese sources, 19 civilians were killed in accompanying air strikes.
• Israeli police reported 14 cross-border attacks, two with Katyusha missiles and twelve with mortars. A Khaibar-1 missile hit Bet She'an 70 kilometers south of the border, more south than any other missile launched by Hezbollah. According to the United Nations World Food Program, two ships with urgently needed fuel are on their way to Lebanon. Israel had agreed that the tankers in front of Cyprus could call at the ports of Beirut and Tripoli .
• The human rights organization Human Rights Watch corrected its statements about the airstrike on Cana. In the attack, 28 people were killed, 16 of them were children. However, 13 people are still missing.

August 3, 2006

• The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) deals with the situation in the Middle East at a one-day crisis meeting in Malaysia . The violence must come to an end before it spreads to the entire region "and destroys the hope for a lasting and just peace in the Middle East," said Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at the meeting attended by representatives from 17 of the 56 OIC countries take part.
• The Israeli Air Force resumed its attacks on the suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, which are controlled by the radical Islamic Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese police, two suburbs in the south of the city were attacked.
• Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sees his country almost at the goal in the conflict. In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera , however, he indicated that the fighting would continue in the coming week. At the end of the Israeli offensive, there will be a new formula for the balance of power in the Middle East, Olmert told the newspaper.
• Israel's Prime Minister Olmert called for German soldiers to participate in a United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. "I told Chancellor Angela Merkel that we have absolutely no problem with German soldiers in southern Lebanon," he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Israel currently has no better friend than Germany . The basic requirement for the controversial deployment of German soldiers is the requirement by Israel. Merkel had previously expressed reluctance to German participation.
• Representatives of the USA and Great Britain are signaling their agreement in principle to a six-point plan drawn up by France, which is to be presented to the members of the UN Security Council on the same day and put to a vote by the weekend.
• The Lebanese national soccer team will not participate in qualifying for the 2007 Asian soccer championship . The Asian Football Association has complied with the request of the Lebanese Association to be able to forego participation in qualification group D due to the "tragic circumstances". Because of the ongoing Israel-Lebanon conflict , those responsible do not expect a fine. The Lebanese association LFA had previously stated that due to the destruction it was extremely difficult to reach the national players and set up a team. The journey to the away games is "almost impossible" due to the bombing of the airport in the capital Beirut.
• At least five people died in rocket attacks by the Hezbollah militia on northern Israel. According to Israeli information, several rockets hit the city of Akko . Hezbollah leader Nasrallah threatened Tel Aviv with rockets if Israel bombed central Beirut. At the same time, Nasrallah offered to end the rocket attacks on Israel if Israel refrains from further air strikes. Hezbollah would rather fight “hand to hand” than drag innocent civilians to war. Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regew rejected the offer. Hezbollah wants to buy time.

August 4, 2006

Aid supplies unloaded in Beirut on August 4th.

• With the bombing of four bridges, the Israeli army destroyed the last road connections and escape routes to Syria . The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees spoke of the disruption of a “humanitarian lifeline”. With the destruction of the bridges, the most important supply route to Lebanon was cut. After more than three weeks of Israeli air strikes on Lebanon, a humanitarian disaster threatens there. For the first time, targets in the predominantly Christian north of the city were attacked. According to television reports, Hezbollah fighters killed five soldiers in southern Lebanon.
• Syria , meanwhile, threatens to invade troops if the Israeli armed forces reach the Masnaa area in eastern Lebanon as they advance into the depths of Lebanese territory. "We hope that in the end we do not have to interfere in Israel's adventure, but we do not trust them when they are so close to our borders," said Information Minister Mohsen Bilal.
• In an air strike on a farm near Qaa (القاع) in eastern Lebanon, 33 farm workers - 23 of them are Syrians according to Syrian information - and seven civilians in another attack in Taibeh were killed.

August 5, 2006

• During the night, the Israeli Air Force flew around 70 attacks on targets in Lebanon. A military spokesman in Tel Aviv said that Hezbollah's underground facilities, weapons stores and missile sites of the radical Islamic Hezbollah were destroyed. In the morning, according to the Lebanese police, fighter planes again attacked the suburbs of Beirut. In addition, a special command of Israeli paratroopers landed in Tire with helicopters . They stormed a five-story house with a Hezbollah cell suspected on the second floor. According to Israeli sources, at least three Hezbollah combatants were killed and six Israeli soldiers injured, two of them seriously, in the storm. For the first time, the Lebanese army intervened and fired anti-aircraft missiles at the Israeli helicopters. A Lebanese soldier and four civilians were killed, according to Israeli police. The commando operation was directed against the Hezbollah unit, which was responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera on August 4, 2005, Associated Press reported .
• According to the Israeli police, Hezbollah fired 170 rockets into Israel.

• In the debate about German participation in a UN Lebanon force, the German government continues to reject a decision, despite Israeli pressure. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned against making too early a decision. "In view of the importance of this question, any quick shot is forbidden, either in one direction or the other," said the SPD politician to Der Spiegel . He reacted to Israel's Prime Minister Olmert, who had spoken out in favor of German participation in the planned UN force. The Armed Forces Commissioner of the Federal Armed Forces , Reinhold Robbe , does not consider the time for a deployment of German soldiers in the Middle East to be "even ripe". The Minister of State in the Foreign Office, Gernot Erler (SPD), is extremely skeptical about the direct military tasks of the Bundeswehr in the Middle East. It is difficult to imagine that German soldiers would face Israeli soldiers with their rifles at the ready. The spokesman for the Seeheimer Kreis of the SPD, Johannes Kahrs , does not believe that a deployment of the Bundeswehr in the Bundestag has a majority.
• The USA and France have agreed on a UN Security Council draft resolution . The draft calls for a complete end to violence between Israel and Hezbollah. However, Israel would be granted the right to defend itself against attacks by Hezbollah with counter-attacks. Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said that the draft was “not sufficient”. Hezbollah immediately took a stand and said that a ceasefire would only be approved if all Israeli soldiers leave Lebanon. No deduction is mentioned in the draft.

August 6, 2006

• Israel's Justice Minister Chaim Ramon welcomed the draft resolution, but said Israel had doubts that Hezbollah would comply with any resolution. Israel will continue its military actions, he announced.
• 12 Israeli soldiers were killed in a rocket attack by the Lebanese Hezbollah militia on the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Giladi . Quite a few people were injured. It is the highest number of victims in a single attack on Israel since the fighting began on July 12. In Haifa, three people died in a Hezbollah rocket attack and dozen were injured.
• In Haifa, three people were killed and dozen injured in a Hezbollah missile attack.

• Israel called 30,000 reservists during the week. On Sunday, the chief of military intelligence, General Amos Yadlin, announced that one of the Hezbollah fighters involved in the kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers had been captured. The name was given as Hassin Ali Saliman. According to allegations by the Israeli armed forces, the 22-year-old was trained as a terrorist by Iranian soldiers in Iran. A video recording of his interrogation is available on an Army website.
• Three Arab women were killed in a Hezbollah attack on the Bedouin village of Arab al-Aramshe in western Galilee.

August 7, 2006

• On the night of August 7, 2006, Israeli warplanes again bombed targets in Lebanon. There are reports of Israeli air strikes from the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut and the Bekaa Plain . According to Lebanese sources, at least 14 civilians died in southern Lebanon. The number of dead in the conflict is estimated at 1,000, most of them civilians.
• The five permanent members of the UN Security Council postponed their deliberations on the latest draft resolution on Lebanon in New York . According to the Russian ambassador to the UN, Churkin , the Council is still a long way from reaching an agreement.
• In Beirut, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora again announced at a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers that a plan for a UN resolution aimed at ending the fighting was “not enough,” but a senior adviser said that Siniora's government did not "completely" reject the resolution. The draft resolution, drawn up by the United States and France, calls for “the immediate cessation of all Hezbollah attacks and the immediate cessation of all offensive military operations on the part of Israel.” Lebanon rejects the draft and demands that the demand for a speedy withdrawal of Israel into the Resolution is included. A second resolution provides for the installation of an international peacekeeping force so that Lebanon's army is able to monitor the southern border zone, where Hezbollah has been in power since the Israeli withdrawal in 2000. Sinioria also said that an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese village of Hula killed 40 people; Siniora later corrected herself and said that only one person was killed. More than 140,000 people have now fled Lebanon to Syria.
• Israel Defense Minister Amir Peretz said the ground offensive in Lebanon would be expanded if diplomacy was unsuccessful.
• Federal Foreign Minister Steinmeier announced that tomorrow, August 8, 2006, he would be traveling to the region for a further mediation visit.
• The Israeli air force launched another attack on the Lebanese capital Beirut in the evening. Over 40 people were killed in the Shiyeh suburb .
• US President George W. Bush has spoken out against an immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon. Bush said in Crawford, Texas , that a vacuum should not be created into which Hezbollah could penetrate .
• The Arab League turned Meanwhile behind the peace plan of the Lebanese government. Representatives of the organization traveled to New York to promote the position at the UN. In contrast to the UN draft resolution, the plan provides for an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of the Israelis.
• The Lebanese army called up reservists today. Appropriately, it was reported from government circles that the transfer of troops to the south of the country should be decided today. This involves a number of 15,000 soldiers who are to move into the areas from which the Israeli army is supposed to withdraw.

August 8, 2006

• Two Israeli soldiers died near Bint Jubail . Three soldiers died during heavy fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. 14 soldiers were also injured.
• Israel dropped leaflets warning the population to stay outside after 10 p.m. As an Israeli military spokesman announced, this would be a risk.

August 9, 2006

• Israel attacks a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon for the first time. According to reports by the Lebanese police, the largest refugee camp in Lebanon near Sidon, which is home to around 50,000 refugees, was attacked. 2 people died and 15 people were injured. Directly next to the bombed building was a center that was under the authority of the Fatah leader Munir Makdah .
• In the fierce fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas in Ayta al-Shaab and Dibel, 15 Israeli soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded.

• At least one Israeli soldier from a paratrooper reserve unit was killed by fire from an Israeli tank ("friendly fire") in the village of A-Taibeh. Ten other soldiers of the unit were wounded.
• The Israeli security cabinet has decided to expand the ground offensive in Lebanon. 30,000 soldiers are to advance to the Litani River. Eli Yishai , Israel's Vice Prime Minister, has announced that the new offensive will last around 30 days.

August 10, 2006

• Israel intends to postpone the planned ground offensive in Lebanon until the weekend to improve the chances of efforts to reach a ceasefire. Israeli Finance Minister Avraham Hirchson puts the cost of the war to Israel at US $ 1.6 billion so far.
• Five-year-old Fathi Assadi and his mother Miriam, both Israeli Arabs, were killed and eleven other people injured in a Hezbollah attack on the West Galilean village of Dir al-Assad.
• According to Israeli information, Hezbollah again fired at least 110 rockets at northern Israel. To date, Hezbollah has fired more than 3,500 rockets at Israel.
• France and the US continued to wrestle over a joint draft resolution. There was disagreement about when Israel would withdraw. The USA continued to support the Israeli position, according to which the withdrawal should take place at the same time as the stationing of an international security force, while France takes the Lebanese position, according to which the withdrawal should take place at the same time as the deployment of the Lebanese army.

• According to Russian sources, the negotiations failed on Friday night. Russia wants to present its own draft calling for a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire. The crisis is too serious to wait for a permanent ceasefire, said the Russian UN Ambassador Churkin.
• According to the Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmad Fatfat , Israeli troops occupied the local barracks and detained 350 soldiers and police officers when they captured the predominantly Christian town of Marjajoun . "The troops refused [to share the barracks with the Israeli forces] and said they were going, but the Israelis would not let them," said the minister. According to Israeli sources, no one was captured. An army spokeswoman said that the soldiers had only been asked to stay in the barracks to be on the safe side because heavy fighting had raged around the city.

August 11, 2006

IAF helicopter

• In Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council called for a commission to investigate alleged human rights violations by 27 votes to 11 (with 8 abstentions). The meeting had been requested by Tunisia and the Arab League. A majority of the 47 member countries of the Human Rights Council - including Russia and China - voted for a resolution accusing Israel of systematic violations of human rights and international agreements. Germany voted against the paper with other EU countries.
• Hezbollah claimed to have killed 15 Israeli soldiers near Aita al-Shab'b and admitted to having lost four fighters, but did not give the location. Hezbollah TV channel Al-Manar reported that Hezbollah hit a gunboat off the coast of Tire , killing and injuring 12 sailors. The message was denied by the Israeli army.
• At least twelve people were killed in an air strike on a bridge at the border crossing to Syria near Abboudiyeh in northern Lebanon. The coastal road to the northern border is the only remaining escape route on land.
• UNIFIL troops have evacuated 350 Lebanese soldiers from Marj Uyun (Marjayoun) in consultation with the Israeli armed forces. Hundreds of passenger vehicles have joined the convoy. According to eyewitness reports, 3,500 people are said to have left the city in this way, several hundred of them from surrounding Shiite villages.
• The USA and France agree on a joint UN resolution. The draft envisages the gradual withdrawal of Israel from southern Lebanon with the simultaneous stationing of the Lebanese army and is to be submitted to the Security Council today. In addition, UNIFIL is to be reinforced by 15,000 men and given a robust mandate. Further details are still unknown.
• Despite this agreement between the US and France, Israel continues to prepare a ground offensive in which the armed forces are to advance to the Litani River.
• An Israeli air force drone attacked the UNIFIL-escorted refugee convoy from Marj Uyun in Lebanon near Chtaura on the west side of the Bekaa Valley. According to the Lebanese Red Cross, at least seven people were killed and 36 others injured. The convoy was supposed to transport 350 Lebanese soldiers from Marajyoun. About 3,500 civilians had joined him. Israel has meanwhile labeled the attack a mistake.
• Israel and Lebanon agreed to the draft resolution ahead of the UN Security Council meeting.
• During the night, the UN Security Council unanimously passed resolution 1701 . It calls on Israel to refrain from further offensives in Lebanon and the Hezbollah militia to stop their attacks. Furthermore, the quickest possible withdrawal of Israel from southern Lebanon is called for. The withdrawal is to take place simultaneously with the deployment of the Lebanese army. To support the Lebanese army, UNIFIL is to be increased to 15,000 men.

August 12, 2006

• Meanwhile, despite the resolution, Israel is expanding its offensive as announced. The fighting should last at least until the cabinet vote on the resolution on Sunday, says a member of the government. The Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Chalutz, on the other hand, says that the fighting could continue for another week.
• Hassan Nasrallah has expressed his approval of the Lebanon resolution of the UN Security Council and will follow the UN demand for a ceasefire. Hezbollah reserves the right to continue fighting as long as Israel continues its ground offensive. Israel has not yet approved the resolution. A corresponding vote is planned for Sunday.
• 19 Israeli soldiers were killed in skirmishes with Hezbollah on Saturday, including the son of the Israeli writer and peace activist David Grossmann. Another 85 were wounded, twelve of them seriously. Two of those killed were accidentally run over by an Israeli tank in the village of Shakif-al-Amal. According to the Israeli army, 40 Hezbollah fighters were killed on Saturday.
• The Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Saturday that an IAF transport helicopter had been shot down for the first time with an anti-tank missile from Hezbollah. Hezbollah claims, however, that it was a novel missile called the Waad . 5 soldiers died, including one female soldier. According to Lebanese sources, Hezbollah also shot down an Israeli drone.
• 15 civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike on the village of Rshaf in southern Lebanon. Israeli missiles killed three more people in a car near Kharayeb. On Saturday night, a Lebanese soldier was killed in an air strike on an army base in the western Bekaa Valley.
• The Lebanese government unanimously approves the UN resolution, but expresses concerns on some detailed issues and wants to discuss them on Sunday. Two Hezbollah ministers are also represented in the cabinet.
• Israel and Lebanon have given UN Secretary-General Annan an assurance that the ceasefire will begin on Monday at 7:00 a.m. CEST .

August 13, 2006

• In the Israeli cabinet, 24 members of the government voted in favor of the ceasefire, one abstained. Israel thus also accepts the resolution. Israel will only withdraw in parallel with the advance of UN soldiers and Lebanese forces, not if individual soldiers from Lebanon asked the Israelis to withdraw when they arrived, said Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni .
• The fighting continued unabated today. The Israeli police reported 250 rockets hit, some of which hit downtown Haifa. A 70-year-old man was killed and 53 others injured. Israel bombed southern Beirut, several apartment blocks were destroyed in 20 explosions. A total of 18 civilians and four soldiers were killed in attacks on the Lebanese port city of Tire and other areas on Sunday. The ground offensive is also advancing towards Litani. Five Israeli soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded, ten of them seriously.
• Israel has agreed to negotiate the release of the captured soldiers for the first time, said Israel's Foreign Minister Livni. The mother of one of the prisoners also said on television that Olmert was now planning a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appointed Dekel as “special envoy on the return of the three kidnapped Israeli soldiers” on the 14th of Ofer.
• Hezbollah refuses to disarm, according to an unnamed Lebanese minister.
• For the past two days, the Israeli army has dropped leaflets over Lebanon with the names of 180 Hezbollah fighters killed and identified and broadcast these names on the television and radio frequencies used by Hezbollah.

August 14, 2006

• Until the immediate start of the ceasefire at 8 a.m. local time (7 a.m. CEST), Israel and Hezbollah fought fierce fighting and the Israeli air force attacked targets in southern Lebanon and east Beirut. The ceasefire was punctually observed by both sides. Israel began with the withdrawal of individual troops.
• The Israeli army said it had so far killed six Hezbollah fighters in self-defense. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of refugees are making their way home in southern Lebanon. Israel and Lebanon warn the refugees against a hasty return.
• To date, Hezbollah has fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel. On August 13 alone, 250 rockets were reported to have hit.

• According to an announcement by the Israeli government, the 2006 Lebanon war killed a total of 39 civilians on the Israeli side, including seven children, eight women and 15 non-Jewish Israeli citizens, and 117 soldiers, 50 of whom were 21 years old or younger.
• According to Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, "the presence of Hezbollah in the south has been destroyed," as has the arsenal, which he viewed as a strategic advantage. Hezbollah's self-confidence has been damaged. In parliament he said that Israel would continue to pursue Hezbollah leadership.

• Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah also spoke of a "strategic, historic victory" over Israel. "We emerged victorious from a war in which large Arab armies were (previously) defeated," said Nasrallah. Hezbollah promised to help rebuild the devastated areas.

• Five to ten Hezbollah rockets have landed in southern Lebanon. Nobody was hurt, nothing was damaged. The army sees no reason for an immediate response and no breach of the ceasefire, since Israel was not hit.
• Military representatives from the UN (UNIFIL Commander Alain Pellegrini), Lebanon and Israel met in the border town of Ras Nakura to discuss the implementation modalities of Resolution 1701. The talks concerned the withdrawal of the Israeli armed forces and the stationing of Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon.

• Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has tasked the former deputy chief of the secret service Shin Beth with efforts to free the soldiers kidnapped in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. According to senior Israeli officers, 13 Hezbollah inmates are eligible. In addition, the bodies of dozens of Hezbollah fighters could be handed over.
• Lebanon plans to begin the fight against the oil spill on its Mediterranean coast on Tuesday. With Israel still maintaining the air and sea blockade, clean-up operations are proving difficult. Experts estimate the cost at $ 100 million.
• Investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh claims that Israel had a plan to attack Hezbollah long before Hezbollah kidnapped two soldiers on July 12, and that Bush administration officials knew about it.

August 15, 2006

• Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has spoken out in support of Hezbollah and called on the Arab nations to support Hezbollah. He also said "Israel is our enemy and does not want peace", but at the same time mentioned his condition for peace: "Peace would mean that Israel returns the occupied territories."
• In response to Assad's speech, Frank-Walter Steinmeier canceled his trip to Syria at short notice. He said Assad's statements were "a negative contribution that in no way does justice to the current challenges and opportunities in the Middle East." The US government has blocked the accounts of two senior Syrian officers in the US because of Hezbollah funding.
• Israel evacuated the city of Marj Uyun, which had been occupied just under a week earlier. According to Israeli officers, the troop withdrawal should be completed within the next week. The Lebanese defense minister announced that the Lebanese soldiers can arrive on the north bank of the Litani by the end of the week. The first reinforcement of the UNIFIL troops is expected in 10 days.
• UNFIL Commander Major General Alain Pellegrini made it clear that the UN soldiers will not try to disarm the Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon. This is the job of Lebanon.

August 16, 2006

• Israel insists on the full implementation of UN Resolution 1701 and threatens Hezbollah to continue the war if it persists as an armed organization. The UN resolution is clear: Hezbollah must be removed from the border area, its weapons confiscated and the organization disbanded, said a government representative from the Israeli Prime Minister's office.
• Hezbollah refuses to disarm while Israeli soldiers are in Lebanon and in the Shebaa farm area. "The presence of Israeli tanks in the south is an aggression, and the resistance reserves the right to counteract this aggression," announced Sheikh Nabil Kauk in Tire. Hezbollah once again emphasized yesterday that it would not show an armed presence in southern Lebanon after the stabilization force was stationed and that it would accept the weapon-free zone.
• The Israeli chief of staff Dan Chalutz, who had previously promised a withdrawal within ten days, said that his troops would remain in southern Lebanon until the multinational UN force was stationed: "Even if it takes months."
• Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the Czech Republic are fundamentally ready to participate in the UNIFIL mission. There are also reports that Switzerland may be involved in the mission.
• France calls for an end to the air, land and sea blockade in Lebanon. Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy discussed the UN peacekeeping force with the Lebanese government and representatives from Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia.

August 17, 2006

• Lebanese general Adnan Daud was arrested after Lebanese television stations showed a video recording, first broadcast on Israeli channels, of himself conversing in friendly terms with Israeli soldiers who occupied the surrendered barracks of the unit he commanded. He commanded a 1,000-man unit of the Lebanese military police in the predominantly Christian city of Marj Uyun . In Lebanon, which is officially at war with Israel despite the 1949 armistice, contact with Israel is a criminal offense.
• On August 17, the Lebanese government's Higher Relief Council announced that the hostilities that began in Lebanon on July 12 had killed 1,181 people and injured 4,036. However, these numbers did not differentiate between civilians, soldiers and Hezbollah members. Furthermore, 333,170 people are still on the run.
• According to UNIFIL, Israeli planes violated Lebanese airspace twice this morning and two Lebanese shepherds and about 100 sheep crossed the Blue Line to Israel.

August 18, 2006

• Seven countries have given the UN a firm commitment to provide troops for the expanded UNIFIL mission. 3,500 men have come together, the largest contingent is Bangladesh with 2,000 soldiers. France promised 200 men. UN Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown said that would be enough for an initial reinforcement. It is now important whether the units have the necessary skills and the right equipment and whether Israel and Lebanon agree with the states. Germany secured u. a. an “important maritime component” with which one is able to control the entire coastline.
• Hezbollah compensates Lebanese for war losses. Anyone who lost their apartment during the fighting in Lebanon should receive the equivalent of around 9,500 euros in cash for new accommodation and furniture. According to the Lebanese authorities, around 15,000 homes were destroyed during the Israeli offensive.
• Israeli fighter jets repeatedly flew over many parts of Lebanon during the night. Lebanese police reported that rockets were being fired at unknown targets in the Bekaa plain . Israeli security forces confirmed the overflights but denied the use of weapons. A Hezbollah radio station speaks of Israeli bogus attacks.

August 19, 2006

• In the first Israeli attack in Lebanon since the beginning of the ceasefire, an Israeli officer was killed and two soldiers wounded on the night of August 19 near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. There are contradicting statements about victims on the Lebanese side. According to Israel, this was not an offensive action that would constitute a breach of the ceasefire. According to the Israeli army, the mission served to prevent arms deliveries from Syria and Iran to Hezbollah and was successful; according to Hezbollah, the attack was aimed at the kidnapping of its important functionary Mohammed Yazbek and was repulsed. According to Lebanese sources, the Israeli special forces used vehicles and uniforms of the Lebanese army during the operation.
• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan described the military action as a violation of the ceasefire in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and ordered daily reports on the observance of the ceasefire by the conflicting parties to the UN Security Council.

August 20, 2006

• According to Haaretz , a UN spokesman has indicated that UN troops in southern Lebanon are authorized to use force against armed Hezbollah fighters who cannot be disarmed.

August 21, 2006

• According to a Guardian report , cluster or cluster bombs dropped by the Israeli army after the ceasefire in southern Lebanon claimed four lives and injured 21 people. Mine clearance teams have so far discovered 89 places where so-called bomblets from cluster bombs are lying around.
• In an open letter that was printed in all Israeli daily newspapers, the reservist brigade accused the Israeli army command of, among other things, ineptitude, lack of foresight and poor preparation. The soldiers accuse the leadership of having only been sent to war as a diversion from domestic political problems.
• The five men captured by the Israeli army at a commando operation in Baalbek were handed over to UNIFIL.

August 22, 2006

• Italy announced the deployment of 2,000 to 3,000 soldiers for UNIFIL, but placed the condition that Israel must comply with the ceasefire. If desired, the troops will be led. Israel and Lebanon agree to this.

August 23, 2006

• According to Lebanese security forces, three Lebanese soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon trying to clear unexploded Israeli projectiles. In addition, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier was killed and three others wounded when their tank hit a six-year-old Israeli mine near the border in southern Lebanon.
• In a television interview, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned against the deployment of international UN troops in Lebanon along the border with Syria. This would be seen as hostile action against Syria and would be tantamount to depriving Lebanon of sovereignty.
• After Turkey had previously announced participation in the international UN force, Namık Tan, spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry, said at a press conference today: “Turkey does not agree to an order such as the disarmament of Hezbollah. If such an order is given, there can be no question of Turkey making a contribution to a UN mission. "

August 24, 2006

• French President Jacques Chirac announces that France wants to increase its contingent in Lebanon to 2,000 soldiers.

August 27, 2006

• "If we had known that the kidnapping of the soldiers [...] led to [the war] , we definitely would not have," said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an interview on Lebanese television.

August 30, 2006

• The Lebanese government has stated that it will pay around $ 40,000 ( £ 60 million ) in compensation to any family whose homes have been destroyed in the war . Excluded from the offer is southern Beirut, where Hezbollah has already begun giving families who have lost their homes $ 12,000 in cash as a rental subsidy. President Siniora is still looking for sponsors to rebuild entire villages.

August 31, 2006

• At a solidarity rally in Tel Aviv that evening, 60,000 Israelis of all kinds called on the government to campaign for the release of the three soldiers who were still kidnapped.

September

September 1, 2006

• The French contingent for the UNFIL force is unusually heavily armed for UN peacekeeping forces. France sends 13 Leclerc tanks equipped with 120mm cannons, as well as the heavy-duty Cobra radar mounted on trucks .
• According to the news magazine SPIEGEL, Germany is sending the frigates Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Karlsruhe , as well as the supply ship Frankfurt am Main. There are also speedboats , minehunters , troop supplies and a ship equipped with eavesdropping equipment. The units of the German Navy are supplemented by Tornado reconnaissance aircraft and Transall transport aircraft from the Air Force .

September 4, 2006

• Israel accused the government of Lebanon of rejecting these offers for peace talks between the two states.

September 7, 2006

• Israel has warned of the consequences if Lebanon does not campaign for the release of two soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah.

September 8, 2006

• After the air blockade was lifted the day before, Israel is now also ending the sea blockade of Lebanon and handing over the surveillance of the Lebanese coastal waters to Italian UN units.
• A high-ranking Hezbollah official, Mahmoud Kamati, stressed in an interview with the Nazareth newspaper A-Sinara that the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah will only be released if Israel in turn releases the convicted murderer Samir Kuntar .

September 9, 2006

• The Israeli army has ended its naval blockade and naval units from Italy, France and Greece have taken control of Lebanese waters at 12:30 p.m. local time to intercept ships carrying weapons destined for Hezbollah. The Italian and French ships are to remain on site until the units promised by the German government arrive.
• Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has for the first time mentioned conditions for a withdrawal of Israeli troops from the disputed area around the Shebaa farms. According to a statement from his office, he told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Israel would “agree to discuss the problem” if the United Nations decides the area is Lebanese and Lebanon fulfills its obligations under UN resolution 1559 and follows in 1701. Olmert is ready to meet with his Lebanese counterpart Fouad Siniora.
• The Lebanese army has announced that it has now stationed 15,000 men in southern Lebanon and that it has fulfilled this condition of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 . According to AFP, there are now only Israeli troops in Lebanese territory in the area of ​​Alma al-Shabb, near Marun ar-Ras and around Aitarun. Lebanese troops previously took up positions in the coastal area near the Israeli border after the Israeli forces withdrew from there. According to the Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema , the withdrawal of the Israeli troops can be accomplished within ten days, but the Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz assumes that the stationing of a sufficient contingent of UNIFIL troops will only allow the withdrawal in two weeks.

September 13, 2006

• Amnesty International has now also accused Hezbollah of "deliberately attacking civilian targets" in the Lebanon war. Amnesty has therefore asked the UN to investigate violations of international law from both sides.
• According to a report from Vatican Radio , the Holy See has called for a moratorium on the use of cluster bombs .

September 22, 2006

• In his first public appearance since the beginning of the Hezbollah offensive against Israel, its leader Hassan Nasrallah demanded the resignation of the current Lebanese government and accused Chancellor Merkel that the German Navy only wanted to protect Israel. He also refused to disarm Hezbollah, claiming that his organization now has more than 20,000 missiles. The spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry commented on the speech by saying "Nasrallah spit in the face of the international community".

September 24, 2006

• Lebanese Christian politician Samir Geagea , former leader of the Forces Libanaises , spoke out against Hassan Nasrallah's view that the outcome of the war was “a victory” over Israel at a demonstration to the Hezbollah rally. Like many Lebanese, he feels that the country's future is uncertain and that Hezbollah provoked the fighting by capturing the two Israeli soldiers on July 12th. He also rejected Nasrallah's call for the Siniora cabinet to resign and sees Hezbollah's arms as an obstacle to "a strong and capable state," which Nasrallah called for in his speech.

October

October 1, 2006

• At 2.30 am local time, almost all Israeli soldiers left Lebanon. Only in the border town of Ghajar have Israeli soldiers remained. The place is to the west not far from the controversial Shebaa farms. After the start of the ceasefire on August 14, 2006, Israeli forces began erecting a fence between the northern part of the city in Lebanon and the surrounding area.

October 7, 2006

• According to a confidential report by the Federal Intelligence Service , Hezbollah is said to have received new Iranian medium-haul routes with a range of almost 1,000 kilometers by land via Syria, as reported by the magazine Focus .

October 9, 2006

• Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora said his government would reinstate the 1949 ceasefire agreement with Israel if the controversial Shebaa farms were released from Israel. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal , he said, "There is no need to renew or [re- negotiate ] the ceasefire agreement ." Siniora also said that the Lebanese army is not mandated to disarm Hezbollah, but it is "Clear instructions to confiscate all weapons that it finds in the south".

October 10, 2006

• At a meeting of generals from UNIFIL, the Lebanese and Israeli armies, the Israeli army handed over maps that provide information on the placement of land mines laid by Israel . According to Israeli information, the cards are complete. Israel has thus fulfilled a condition of resolution 1701.

October 15, 2006

• The German Armed Forces have taken command of the Maritime Task Force on board the Italian aircraft carrier Garibaldi . Admiral Andreas Krause is the commander of the naval association, which is made up of ships from Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands and is supposed to prevent the smuggling of weapons into Lebanon by sea.

October 19, 2006

• Today Human Rights Watch announced that Hezbollah had also launched cluster bombs on civilian targets. HRW documented two cluster bomb attacks with the Chinese Type 81 missile on July 25th on the Galilean village of Mghar. The use of the 122 mm missile by Hezbollah is the world's first secure use of this cluster bomb. HRW justified the late announcement with Israeli security concerns. The HRW report also cites information from the Israeli police that a total of 113 rockets carrying cluster munitions were fired at Israel during the conflict, killing one person and injuring 12 others.

• The UNIFIL commander Alain Pellegrini said he asked the United Nations for artillery to prevent Israeli air strikes on his soldiers. Pelligrini said that if necessary he would defend UNIFIL with counter-artillery should Israel attack the blue helmet soldiers again.

October 22, 2006

• The Israeli Minister for Relations with the Knesset , Yaakov Edri, admitted to a question in the Knesset that the Israel Defense Forces used phosphorus shells against "military targets in the open air" during the Lebanon war . During the war there had already been numerous indications of their use.

October 31, 2006

• It was only on November 9th that it became known that on October 31st Israeli F-15 fighter planes, which had approached positions of the French UNIFIL troops and were in a typical drop position with the bomb flaps open, were fired with anti-aircraft missiles only by the prudence of the French soldiers was avoided. French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie declared this in the National Assembly. You only stood seconds in front of the defensive fire.

November

November 19, 2006

• According to an Israeli television report, Israeli Chief of Staff Chalutz and Chief Military Prosecutor Avichai Mendelblit will initiate investigations into the use of cluster bombs by the Israeli forces in the Lebanon war after it is revealed that the bombs were used in some cases contrary to Chalutz's instructions. As a result, Chalutz had banned the use of cluster bombs in populated areas. In the agreements for the delivery of the cluster bombs, Israel is said to have promised the USA not to use these weapons in populated areas.

November 23, 2006

• A high-ranking French officer reportedly told the Jerusalem Post that the French soldiers of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon had received permission from their government to fire on Israeli fighter jets that they felt threatened. According to the same report, Israeli Major General Ido Nehuschtan apologized to French military officials for the October 31 incident.

November 24, 2006

• While trying to rescue a shepherd from a previously unknown minefield in the Lebanese village of Deir Mimas 3 km northwest of the Israeli border, two European mine clearance experts lost a foot when an Israeli landmine exploded, according to the UN Mine Action Coordination Center in south Lebanon came. A Lebanese medic was also wounded.

November 25, 2006

• After investigating the mine explosion with three injured people at Deir Mimas, the UN Mine Action Coordination Center in south Lebanon (MACCSL) has accused Israel of laying new land mines in southern Lebanon during the Lebanon War. According to a MACCSL statement reported by Ha'aretz, the momentous explosion the day before was caused by an anti-personnel landmine in a minefield newly created during the fighting in the summer of 2006.

December

December 5, 2006

• The Israeli Brigadier General Gal Hirsch was relieved of his position as commander of the Galilee Division after an investigation commission commissioned by the army found him to be responsible for the kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regew , which is believed to have triggered the recent Lebanon war .
• A 40-year-old man was killed and his 21-year-old nephew was wounded in the explosion of cluster bombs in southern Lebanon. Both worked on a construction site in the village of Kfar Tibnit near Nabatiyeh. According to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, at least 25 people have lost their lives to explosions from cluster munitions since the ceasefire began on August 14 .

January

January 17, 2007

• After months of criticism of Israel's warfare in the 2006 Lebanon War, Chief of Staff Dan Chalutz has resigned from the post he had held since June 1, 2005. Before the so-called Winograd Commission of Inquiry , the results of which were only provisionally published so far, high-ranking officers had blamed Chaluz for the defective warfare.

February

February 7, 2007

• When an Israeli army bulldozer operated near Jarun in the area between the Blue Line and the border fence to the south of it to defuse several previously discovered explosive devices, soldiers of the Lebanese Army (LAF) opened fire (warning shots) on a unit of the Israeli army . The incident is understood by the United Nations as a violation of Resolution 1701. The Israeli soldiers responded with gunfire and mortars. Lebanon initially accused Israel of violating the border. According to Haaretz , UN peacekeepers reported to the Israeli army leadership that five Lebanese were injured, which the Lebanese army denies. In a briefing by the United Nations Security Council on February 13, 2007, Alvaro de Soto , the special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, blamed both the Lebanese army and the Israeli army for the incident. First, according to UNIFIL's findings, Lebanese soldiers opened fire on the Israelis without them having crossed the Blue Line. Later, an Israeli bulldozer crossed the Blue Line while trying to clear mines in the area in question. In this respect, according to the United Nations, both Israel and Lebanon violated the ceasefire.

April

April 30, 2007

• The German frigate Niedersachsen was put into combat readiness when a boat approached at a speed of 30 knots and initially did not reveal anything. Only then did it turn out to be an Israeli speedboat.

May

May 9, 2007

• Another incident: Several Israeli fighter planes set course for the German frigate "Niedersachsen", which was cruising off the Lebanese coast as part of the UNIFIL surveillance mission.

June

June 24, 2007

• Three Colombian and three Spanish soldiers were killed and two other Spaniards injured in a car bomb attack on a UNIFIL patrol near the southern Lebanese city of Khiyam. Hezbollah condemned the attack, which no one has yet acknowledged. The Palestinian terrorist group Fatah al-Islam is suspected .

August

August 29, 2007

• A 41-year-old Israeli Arab who was badly burned in a Hezbollah attack with Katyusha missiles on Haifa in the summer of 2006 and has been hospitalized since then, died today from his injuries. According to Haaretz , this increases the number of Israeli victims to 153.

July

July 16, 2008

• In northern Israel, Hezbollah surrenders the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers captured on July 12th to the Israeli army. It was not disclosed when or how the two soldiers died.
• In return, the Israelis handed over the bodies of almost 200 Hezbollah fighters and 5 Lebanese who had been in custody in Israel since 1979. In Beirut this was celebrated as a great victory.

Web links

Commons : 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Middle East Conflict: Chronicle of the War in Lebanon , interactive graphic on the Stern website(July 12 - August 11, 2006)
• Day-by-day . BBC News. Lebanon crisis - week one , two , three , four , five
• Israel at was Ynetnews
• Video covering background details

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. UN Security Council , S / 2006/560, July 21, 2006 (PDF; S. 1, Paragraph II); possibly also here daccess-ods.un.org 
2. ↑ Lebanon - UNIFIL - Background . UNIFIL , SG / SM / 10570, SC / 8781, media briefing, July 20, 2006
3. ↑ How the War Broke Out - A Reconstruction . n-tv , August 6, 2006
4. ^ Press Conference with Hasan Nasrallah. In: Understanding the Present Crisis. al-Manar , July 12, 2006, archived from the original on December 30, 2006 ; accessed on November 13, 2006 : " it is the only available way first to release the prisoners held in Israeli jails " 
5. ↑ Iran and the Recent Escalation on Israel's Borders (2): Reaction in Iran, Lebanon, and Syria . MEMRI , Special Dispatch Series - No. 1205, July 14, 2006
6. ^ Israel for rules change in south Lebanon . UPI , July 14, 2006
7. ↑ Israeli warplanes hit Beirut suburb . CNN , July 14, 2006
8. ↑ ^{a b} Lebanon: Israel speaks of war . In: Focus , July 12, 2006
9. ↑ Israel's army enters Lebanon . ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Financial Times Deutschland , July 13, 2006 (fee required)
10. ↑ Lebanon police: 15 die in IAF strike on van in south Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , July 15, 2006  
11. ↑ Woman killed in Hizbullah attack in Nahariya . ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Jerusalem Post , July 13, 2006 
12. ↑ Israel intensifies attacks - UN Security Council advises .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , July 14, 2006  
13. ↑ spiegel.de July 14, 2006: Israel destroys Lebanon's infrastructure
14. ↑ Hezbollah threatens Israel with "open war" . In: FAZ , July 15, 2006
15. ↑ Computerized weaponry and high morale . The Guardian , Aug. 11, 2006
16. ^ Israel Says Hezbollah Drone Damages Warship .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Associated Press , July 14, 2006  
17. ↑ Probe: Intelligence, operational lapses caused vessel attack . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , July 20, 2006 
18. ↑ Israel defends action in Lebanon . In: Salzburger Nachrichten , July 14, 2006
19. ↑ Bush does not want to put pressure on Israel . ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Basler Zeitung , July 14, 2006 
20. ↑ Syria, Iran directed rocket barrage against Israel ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. WorldNetDaily: May 29, 2006 
21. ^ Four Israeli troops missing after warship hit . CNN , July 15, 2006
22. ↑ 20 dead in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon . DerStandard.at , July 15, 2006
23. ↑ As the bombs rain down, a refugee crisis unfolds on the streets of Beirut . The Guardian , July 17, 2006
24. ^ Israel: No targets attacked in Syria .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , July 15, 2006  
25. ↑ 8 killed in rocket attack on Haifa . Ynetnews , July 16, 2006.
26. ↑ Hezbollah rocket attack on Haifa - nine dead .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. OÖ Nachrichten , July 16, 2006  
27. ↑ Lebanon blames US for UN silence . ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Al Jazeera , July 16, 2006 
28. ↑ Foreigners are evacuated from Beirut ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland , July 16, 2006 (fee required)
29. ↑ Israeli attack: Canadians killed in Lebanon . Spiegel Online , July 16, 2006
30. ↑ UN tried to release abductees . ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , July 17, 2006
31. ↑ Other Israeli attacks on Lebanon - missiles on Israel . ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swissinfo , July 17, 2006 
32. ^ Israel attacks the port of Beirut on Nachrichten.ch, July 17, 2006
33. ↑ Fires rage in Beirut as IAF attacks port, fuel tank . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , July 17, 2006 
34. ^ Israeli Forces Kill 17 in Lebanon Attacks .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Associated Press , July 17, 2006  
35. ↑ Israel bombs targets in Lebanon again - Hezbollah missiles hit the city near Nazareth (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , July 17, 2006
36. ↑ Broadcast: Again Hezbollah missiles hit the Israeli city of Haifa .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , July 17, 2006  
37. ^ UN calls for Lebanon peace force . BBC , July 17, 2006
38. ^ Hundreds evacuated from Lebanon . BBC , July 17, 2006
39. ↑ Lebanon: Hundreds of Germans flee by ship and plane . Spiegel Online , July 18, 2006
40. ↑ Heavy fighting in the Middle East . Deutschlandradio , July 18, 2006
41. ↑ Israel rejects corridor for refugees . ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , July 18, 2006
42. ^ President Lahoud thanks Iran's support for Lebanon . ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) IRNA , July 19, 2006
43. ↑ Chronology: Bloody escalation of the Middle East conflict ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland , July 19, 2006 (fee required)
44. ^ Crisis in the Middle East: Direct skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah . Spiegel Online , July 19, 2006
45. ↑ Military offensive in southern Lebanon: Thousands of refugees trapped by attacks . Spiegel Online , July 20, 2006
46. ↑ Hail of bombs: Israel targets Hezbollah bunkers . Spiegel Online , July 20, 2006
47. ↑ War in Lebanon - Israel asks Germany for help in freeing hostages . Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 20, 2006
48. ↑ Lübnan'dan Mersin'e kaçış köprüsü ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Radikal , July 22, 2006
49. ↑ Possible ground offensive: Israel calls on residents of southern Lebanon to flee . Spiegel Online , July 21, 2006
50. ↑ Crisis in the Middle East: Lebanon wants to fight back ground offensive . Spiegel Online , July 21, 2006
51. ^ Legal group accuses Israel and Hezbollah of war crimes .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , July 21, 2006  
52. ↑ Israel's ex-vice foreign minister calls for an attack on Syria . Der Standard , July 22, 2006 (fee required)
53. ↑ 250 CIS citizens evacuated from Lebanon arrived in Moscow . RIA Novosti , July 22, 2006
54. ^ Crisis in the Middle East: Haifa again in the hail of rockets . Spiegel Online , July 22, 2006
55. ^ Israeli army continues offensive in Lebanon . Salzburger Nachrichten , July 23, 2006
56. ↑ Bush rushes bombs to Israel . ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Al Jazeera , July 22, 2006 
57. ^ Rice sees bombs as birth pangs . ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Al Jazeera , July 22, 2006 
58. ↑ Syria wants to negotiate with the USA . Welt online , July 23, 2006
59. ↑ Middle East - Syrian minister threatens Israel with war . Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 23, 2006
60. ^ Israeli Official Wants NATO on Border . USA Today , July 23, 2006
61. ↑ Israel expands ground fighting ( Memento from November 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland , July 24, 2006 (fee required)
62. ^ Severe Hezbollah resistance in southern Lebanon . ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , July 24, 2006
63. ^ Hezbollah downs Israeli helicopter . ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , August 12, 2006 
64. ↑ Lebanon's government: Israel uses phosphorus (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , July 25, 2006
65. ↑ Jung is open to participation in UN troops .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , July 24, 2006  
66. ↑ The day Israel realized that this was a real war . The Guardian , July 30, 2006
67. ↑ Bint Jbeil: Israel's army takes Hezbollah base . Spiegel Online , July 25, 2006
68. ↑ ^{a b} Israeli troops suffer largest one-day loss . CNN , July 27, 2006
69. ↑ ^{a b} Lebanon / Israel: Hezbollah Hit Israel with Cluster Munitions During Conflict . Human Rights Watch , October 19, 2006
70. ↑ ^{a b} Israel troops "ignored" UN plea . BBC , July 26, 2006
71. ↑ Lebanon: Israel meets UN observation post . Spiegel Online , July 25, 2006
72. ↑ UN observers killed: Annan accuses Israel of deliberate attack . Spiegel Online , July 26, 2006
73. ↑ Two Israeli bomb kills UN observers . BBC , July 26, 2006
74. ↑ UNIFIL press release of July 26, 2006 ( Memento of August 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
75. ↑ UN soldiers killed: The "breakdown" was probably not one . n-tv , July 26, 2006
76. ↑ Intentional attack? . Zeit online , July 26, 2006
77. ↑ Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon: Israel demands 20,000 foreign soldiers . Spiegel Online , July 25, 2006
78. ↑ Lebanon: So far highest losses for Israel . Focus , July 26, 2006
79. ^ WFP dispatches first UN convoy to southern Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. WFP , July 26, 2006 
80. ↑ Middle East: Aid delivery with baby food on the way to Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DRC , July 27, 2006 
81. ↑ ^{a b} Attack on UN soldiers - blue helmets asked for a fire stop . n-tv , July 26, 2006
82. ↑ Iranian Volunteers Set Off for Lebanon . Washington Post , July 26, 2006
83. ^ Middle East Conference in Rome: Timid warnings to Israel . Spiegel Online , July 26, 2006
84. ↑ Lebanon Offensive: EU accuses Israel of misinterpreting the Rome Declaration . Spiegel Online , July 27, 2006
85. ↑ South Lebanon: missile hits aid convoy, UN withdraws soldiers . Spiegel Online , July 28, 2006
86. ↑ Lebanon: UN observer teams in line of fire in south to relocate . UN News Center, July 28, 2006
87. ↑ PM Olmert speaks with UN Secy. Gen. Kofi Annan . Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 26, 2006
88. ↑ US veto prevents condemnation of Israel (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , July 27, 2006
89. ↑ Israel Minister: "Everyone in South Lebanon is a terrorist" . 20 minutes , July 27, 2006
90. ↑ UN soldier: "Hezbollah uses us as a protective shield" .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. israelnetznachrichten (inn), July 28, 2006  
91. ↑ Historian Wolffsohn: Annan is a tragic flop . Stuttgarter Nachrichten , July 26, 2006
92. ↑ Wolffsohn warns of UN “debacle” in the Middle East . ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , July 26, 2006
93. ↑ Chirac and Blair see UN on the move in the Middle East .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. N24 , July 28, 2006  
94. ↑ USA supports Lebanese army with military aid . Der Standard , July 29, 2006 (fee required)
95. ^ UN: Two UN peacekeepers wounded by air strike in Lebanon .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , July 29, 2006  
96. ↑ Israeli army begins partial withdrawal from Hezbollah stronghold - Six children in Lebanon killed in an air strike . Deutschlandradio , July 29, 2006
97. ↑ Rice urges an agreement in the Middle East . Nachrichten.ch, July 30, 2006
98. ^ Rice arrives for peace talks . Herald Sun, July 26, 2006
99. ↑ Lebanon Offensive: What Really Happened in Cana? . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 3, 2006
100. ↑ Israel blames Hezbollah for attack on Cana . ( Memento of August 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , July 30, 2006
101. ↑ Siniora seeks solidarity with Hezbollah (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , July 30, 2006
102. ^ Israel air strike kills 54 civilians . Sydney Morning Herald , July 30, 2006
103. ↑ Islamic Jihad announces suicide attacks (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , July 30, 2006
104. ^ Oil spill off Lebanon's coast . ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , July 30, 2006
105. ^ Armed Palestinians storm UN base in Gaza . ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Basler Zeitung , July 30, 2006 
106. ↑ “Ask you to do the same” - Annan condemns attack . n-tv , July 30, 2006
107. ↑ South Lebanon: Israel plans to suspend air strikes for two days . Spiegel Online , July 30, 2006
108. ↑ ^{a b} Israel halts attacks for 48 hours . CNN , July 30, 2006
109. ↑ Middle East: Despite Cana - Israel wants to continue bombing . Spiegel Online , July 30, 2006
110. ↑ South Lebanon: Israel stops air strikes for 48 hours . Spiegel Online , July 31, 2006
111. ↑ spiegel.de
112. ↑ Lebanon: Israel flies new air strikes . Spiegel Online , July 31, 2006
113. ↑ Israel OKs expansion of Lebanon campaign . CNN , July 31, 2006
114. ^ Israeli Strikes Resume After Brief Lull . ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. San Francisco Chronicle , July 31, 2006 
115. ↑ ^{a b} Air raids despite ceasefire . ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. heute.de , July 31, 2006 
116. ↑ ^{a b} Olmert rules out an early armistice . ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , July 31, 2006
117. ↑ Berlin contacts Damascus - Syria should be on board . n-tv , July 31, 2006
118. ↑ Security Council extends UN mission in southern Lebanon (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , July 31, 2006
119. ↑ Police: No Hezbollah rockets hit Israel .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , July 31, 2006  
120. ↑ Syria's military put in increased readiness (tagesschau.de archive) Tagesschau , August 1, 2006
121. ↑ ^{a b} Olmert: Israel is winning . The Guardian , Aug. 1, 2006
122. ↑ ^{a b c d} Israel strikes deep into Lebanon . CNN , August 2, 2006
123. ^ Minister: Israel still needs up to 14 days in the Lebanon war .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , August 1, 2006  
124. ↑ Israel announces resumption of air strikes . ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Basler Zeitung , August 1, 2006 
125. ↑ Attack in the north . Time online , August 2, 2006
126. ↑ IDF commands nab five low-level Hezbollah men in Baalbek raid . Haaretz , August 2, 2006
127. ↑ Hezbollah Rocket Reaches Farthest Point . Washington Post , August 2, 2006
128. ^ WFP operational update: Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. WFP , August 2, 2006 
129. ↑ Israel / Lebanon: Qana Death Toll at 28 . Human Rights Watch , August 2, 2006
130. ↑ Islamic states insist on a ceasefire . ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , August 3, 2006
131. ^ Israel resumes airstrikes on Beirut . ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CNN , August 3, 2006 
132. ↑ Olmert: forza di pace pronta a combattere . Corriere della Sera , August 3, 2006
133. ↑ Olmert sees Israel almost at its target in the Lebanon war .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , August 3, 2006  
134. ↑ Olmert pleads for the deployment of German soldiers in southern Lebanon .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , August 3, 2006  
135. ↑ Bush and Blair are ready to back plan for peace . The Times , August 3, 2006
136. ^ Lebanon War: New draft resolution presented . Time online , August 3, 2006
137. ↑ Lebanon cancels for Asian Cup qualification . ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fussballweltmeisterschaft.de, August 3, 2006 
138. ↑ Seven people killed in rocket strikes in northern Israel . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 3, 2006 (English) 
139. ^ Lebanon conflict: Hezbollah chief threatens rockets on Tel Aviv . Stern , August 3, 2006
140. ↑ Middle East: Hezbollah boss threatens to attack Tel Aviv . Spiegel Online , August 3, 2006
141. ^ Aid lifeline broken after Israelis hit highway . The Guardian , August 5, 2006
142. ↑ Syria threatens to invade Lebanon . RIA Novosti , August 4, 2006
143. ↑ Israeli air strikes: Dozens of civilians killed in Lebanon . Spiegel Online , August 4, 2006
144. ↑ Middle East War: Heaviest bombing since the start of the attacks . Spiegel Online , August 5, 2006
145. ^ Israeli commandos stage Tire raid . BBC , August 5, 2006
146. ^ ^{A b c} Security Council considers US, French truce plan . CNN , August 5, 2006
147. ^ Coalition: Warning of the use of the Federal Armed Forces in the Middle East . Spiegel Online , August 5, 2006
148. ↑ Lebanon Schutztruppe: Berlin rejects Israel's request for soldiers . In: Die Welt , August 5, 2006
149. ↑ Israel embarrasses Germans . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 5, 2006
150. ↑ USA and France apparently agree on Middle East resolution .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , August 5, 2006  
151. ↑ USA and France agree on UN resolution (tagesschau.de archive), Tagesschau , August 5, 2006
152. ↑ Middle East War: Israel welcomes draft resolution - and continues to bomb . Spiegel Online , August 6, 2006
153. ↑ ^{a b} Hezbollah launches rocket barrage . BBC , August 6, 2006
154. ^ IAF air strike kills six Lebanese family members, wounds two . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 7, 2006 
155. ↑ See YouTube : Interrogation of Hezbollah terrorist , discontinued January 31, 2007
156. ↑ Mother, two daughters killed in rocket strike on Bedouin village . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 6, 2006 
157. ↑ Lebanese government wants to send 15,000 soldiers . ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ZDF , August 7, 2006 
158. ↑ Lebanon War: UN Security Council does not get any further . ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zeit online , August 7, 2006 
159. ↑ Lebanon proposes plan to end violence . CNN , August 8, 2006
160. ↑ The refugees are treated like guests . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 7, 2006
161. ^ Cabinet to meet over expansion of ground operations .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 8, 2006  
162. ↑ Steinmeier will travel to the Middle East again tomorrow .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dpa , August 7, 2006  
163. ↑ Lebanese direct growing anger at US . Christian Science Monitor , August 10, 2006
164. ↑ Hot air pushed me off my chair. I was on the ground. I thought I was dead . The Guardian , Aug. 12, 2006
165. ↑ Bush cautions on Lebanon cease-fire . USA Today , August 8, 2006
166. ^ Al-Khatib: "Arab ministerial meeting adopts Lebanese stand" . ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kuwait News Agency , Aug. 7, 2006 
167. ↑ Arabs demand Israel pullout as more Civilians that . In: The Telegraph - Calcutta, August 7, 2006
168. ↑ Middle East War: Lebanon wants to send troops to the south . Spiegel Online , August 7, 2006
169. ^ Lebanon commits 15,000 troops to south . Washington Post , August 7, 2006
170. ↑ ^{a b c} 15 soldiers killed Wednesday in south Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 10, 2006 
171. ↑ Refugee camp bombed . Time online , August 9, 2006
172. ↑ Friendly fire kills one IDF soldier, may have caused other fatalities . ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 10, 2006 
173. ^ War in Lebanon: Israel decides to massively expand the ground offensive . Spiegel Online , August 9, 2006
174. ↑ ^{a b} Israel stopping offensive until weekend .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CBS , August 10, 2006  
175. ↑ Mother and son killed in rocket attack .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jerusalem Post , August 10, 2006  
176. ↑ Five people hurt in Katyusha rocket strikes in northern Israel . ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 11, 2006 
177. ↑ ^{a b} Security Council: Diplomats expect rapid agreement on Lebanon resolution . Spiegel Online , August 10, 2006
178. ↑ UN Security Council - No agreement on Lebanon resolution . Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 11, 2006
179. ↑ Lebanon: 350 soldiers, police detained . Washington Post , August 10, 2006
180. ↑ UN Human Rights Council condemns Israel's actions . Welt online , August 11, 2006
181. ↑ Lebanon crisis: UN Human Rights Council condemns Israel . In: FAZ , August 11, 2006
182. ^ Hezbollah Claims It Sunk Israeli Gunboat . ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CBS , Aug 11, 2006 
183. ^ Israel Blasts Lebanese Border Bridge .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CBS , Aug 11, 2006  
184. ^ Thousands of southern Lebanese set to quit towns oneindia.in:, August 11, 2006
185. ^ Breakthrough in New York - Agreement on a new draft resolution . Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 11, 2006
186. ↑ Middle East: Israel orders expansion of the ground offensive . In: FAZ , August 11, 2006
187. ↑ UN resolution is apparently available . ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. heute.de , August 11, 2006 
188. ↑ Lebanon: Israeli forces shell refugee convoy . Spiegel Online , August 11, 2006
189. ↑ IDF drone fires on refugee convoy .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Jerusalem Post , August 12, 2006  
190. ↑ Middle East conflict: Israel and Lebanon want to approve UN draft resolution . Spiegel Online , August 11, 2006
191. ↑ Security Council votes unanimously for an end to hostilities in the Middle East . UN NEWS, August 11, 2006
192. ↑ ^{a b} According to UN resolution: The weapons could be silent on Monday . Stern , August 12, 2006
193. ^ Nasrallah and Lebanese Government Approve Resolution . ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Basler Zeitung , August 12, 2006 
194. ^ David Grossman's son killed in battle .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Jerusalem Post , August 14, 2006  
195. ↑ 24 IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon on Saturday . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 14, 2006 
196. ↑ ^{a b} The stories of the fall in Lebanon .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Jerusalem Post , August 14, 2006  
197. ↑ ^{a b} Beirut bombarded hours before the start of ceasefire . The Guardian , Aug. 14, 2006
198. ↑ Hezbollah “will observe UN truce” . BBC , August 12, 2006
199. ↑ IAF strikes and ground assaults kill at least 19 across Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 13, 2006 
200. ↑ Lebanese government unanimously approves UN resolution . ( Memento of September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) APA , August 12, 2006
201. ↑ Annan agrees ceasefire with Israel and Lebanon (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , August 13, 2006
202. ↑ Middle East War: withdrawal only when peacekeepers are stationed . ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Stern , August 13, 2006 
203. ^ Hizbullah leader claims victory . The Guardian , Aug. 14, 2006
204. ^ Peretz: Israel, UNIFIL officials coordinating land handover . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 14, 2006 
205. ↑ Sudden calm . Time online , August 14, 2006
206. ↑ Kidnapped soldiers: Israel now ready for negotiations . Spiegel Online , August 13, 2006
207. ↑ ^{a b c} Israel and Lebanon talk about implementation of the UN resolution . Der Standard , August 14, 2006 (fee required)
208. ↑ Lebanon War: Hezbollah rejects disarmament . Time online , August 13, 2006
209. ↑ List of 180 dead Hezbollah terrorists released of an estimated 530 killed since start of fighting . ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Israel Defense Forces , August 14, 2006 
210. ^ Ceasefire in Lebanon entered into force . Hamburger Abendblatt , August 14, 2006
211. ↑ ^{a b c} ceasefire holds, refugees are returning . Tages-Anzeiger , August 14, 2006
212. ↑ Hizballah's Attack on Israel . ( February 19, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ) Government of Israel - Prime Minister's Office, August 13, 2006 (website shows photos of most of the victims)
213. ↑ Ceasefire in Lebanon largely stable . Deutschlandradio , August 14, 2006
214. ↑ Israel is considering an exchange of prisoners with Hezbollah . Welt online , August 15, 2006
215. ↑ Lebanon: Fight against the oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea begins . Der Standard , August 14th (fee required)
216. ^ Annals of National Security: Watching Lebanon . ( June 15, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) The New Yorker , August 14, 2006
217. ↑ ^{a b} Steinmeier cancels visit to Syria . ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SDA , August 15, 12006 
218. ↑ Comment: "Steinmeier gave away a chance" (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , August 16, 12006
219. ↑ Terrorism: USA blocks accounts of Syrian officers . Spiegel Online , August 16, 12006
220. ^ Israel begins thinning forces in Lebanon; Annan warns Hezbollah and Israel . ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. israelinsider, August 15, 2006 
221. ↑ Israel says it has begun withdrawal from Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CNN , August 17, 2006 
222. ↑ UNIFIL peacekeepers will not disarm Hezbollah .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Jerusalem Post , August 15, 2006  
223. ↑ Middle East - Israel threatens Hezbollah to continue the war .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 16, 2006  
224. ↑ Lebanon: Hezbollah rejects disarmament . Spiegel Online , August 16, 2006
225. ^ Scandal in the Middle East . Saxon newspaper , August 15, 2006
226. ↑ Israel Plans to Remain in Lebanon Until Force Arrives . The New York Times , August 16, 2006
227. ↑ Twelve EU countries basically ready to be deployed in Lebanon .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dpa , August 16, 2006  
228. ↑ ^{a b} France demands the end of the blockade . ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. news.search.ch, August 16, 2006 
229. ↑ Fatfat order house arrest for general videotaped having tea with Israeli officers . In: The Daily Star , August 18, 2006
230. ↑ Lebanon under siege . ( Memento of November 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Higher Relief Commission (official government agency), August 17, 2006
231. ↑ Press Release . (PDF) UNIFIL, August 18, 2006
232. ↑ UN: Little support for the Lebanon reaction force . Spiegel Online , August 18, 2006
233. ↑ Hezbollah compensates Lebanese for war losses . ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Associated Press , Aug. 18, 2006 
234. ↑ No confirmation for missiles in Lebanon .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dpa , August 18, 2006  
235. ^ IDF officer killed in commando raid in east Lebanon; operation aimed to prevent arms deliveries to Hebzollah . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 19, 2006 
236. ^ Statement attributable to the Spokesman of the Secretary-General on Israel and Lebanon . UN Secretary-General, August 19, 2006
237. ↑ UNIFIL troops permitted to open fire on armed Hezbollah militants . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 21, 2006 
238. ↑ Unexploded cluster bombs prompt fear and fury in returning refugees . The Guardian , Aug. 21, 2006
239. ^ Criticism of the Israeli army's mission in Lebanon - The dissatisfied army of the reservists (tagesschau.de archive), tagesschau.de , 21 August 2006
240. ↑ TEXT: Protest petition by IDF reservists back from the war . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 21, 2006 
241. ↑ Olmert Tries to Defuse Public Anger .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. San Francisco Chronicle , August 21, 2006  
242. ↑ Italy offers to lead UN force in Lebanon . The Guardian , Aug. 22, 2006
243. ^ IDF soldier killed, three others hurt, in South Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 23, 2006 
244. ↑ ^{a b} Situation Report . (PDF) UNRWA , 23 August 2006
245. ^ Annan plans Mideast trip to push Lebanon cease-fire . ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CNN , Aug. 24, 2006 
246. ^ Syria opposes UN force on border . ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CNN , Aug. 24, 2006 
247. ↑ Bush'un isteği Türkiye'ye ters . ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radikal , August 24, 2006 (Turkish) 
248. ^ France to Send 2,000 Troops to Lebanon . CBS , August 24, 2006
249. ↑ Nasrallah sorry for scale of war . BBC , August 27, 2006
250. ^ Lebanese Government to Pay $ 40,000 to Each Family to Rebuild Their Homes . ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , August 30, 2006 
251. ↑ Demonstration in Tel Aviv - tens of thousands demand the release of kidnapped soldiers . (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , September 1, 2006
252. ^ In show of unity, 60,000 rally for release of soldiers . ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , September 1, 2006 
253. ↑ Lebanon mission: Paris drives up heavy artillery . Spiegel Online , September 1, 2006
254. ↑ Unifil troops: up to 1900 soldiers for deployment in Lebanon . Spiegel Online , September 1, 2006
255. ^ Israel: Lebanon ignores offers for peace talks .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , September 4, 2006  
256. ↑ Israel: Lebanon must advocate the release of soldiers .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reuters , September 7, 2006  
257. ↑ Israel ends sea blockade . n-tv , September 8, 2006
258. ↑ German FM: It is premature for talks on the release of 2 IDF soldiers . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , September 8, 2006 
259. ^ Maritime blockade ends as UN naval forces start coastal patrols . The Daily Star , September 9, 2006
260. ↑ ^{a b} Olmert lays out his terms for talks on Shebaa Farms . The Daily Star , September 9, 2006
261. ^ Israel / Lebanon: Hizbullah committed War Crimes in attacks on Israel - new report . Amnesty International , September 14, 2006
262. ↑ Israel and Hezbollah - German should mediate . n-tv , September 13, 2006
263. ↑ Ban these Bombs . ( Memento of October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Vatican Radio , September 13, 2006
264. ↑ Lebanon: Hezbollah boss attacks Merkel . Spiegel Online , September 23, 2006
265. ^ Israel: Nasrallah speech "spit in face" for international community .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , September 23, 2006  
266. ^ Lebanese Christians protest Hezbollah .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Associated Press , September 24, 2006  
267. ↑ Israel's army has left Lebanon . Welt online , October 1, 2006
268. ↑ Lebanese army wants to respond to Israeli "aggressions" . Der Tagesspiegel , October 2, 2006
269. ^ A New Fence Is Added to a Border Town Already Split . The New York Times , October 11, 2006
270. ↑ 1,000 km range - Hezbollah is upgrading . n-tv , October 7, 2006
271. ↑ PM signals determination to liberate Shebaa Farms . The Daily Star , October 9, 2006
272. ↑ Press release (PDF) UNIFIL, October 9, 2006 (English)
273. ↑ UN says Israel provides maps of minefields in southern Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , October 10, 2006 
274. ↑ Bundeswehr takes over command off Lebanon's coast . Welt online , October 15, 2006
275. ↑ Commander asks for artillery for UN Lebanon troops - For prevention . Der Standard , October 19, 2006 (fee required)
276. ^ Israel admits using phosphorus bombs during was in Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , October 22, 2006 
277. ^ Israel used phosphorus bombs ( memento from July 22, 2010 on WebCite ) tagesschau.de , October 23, 2006
278. ↑ In southern Lebanon - Israel jets almost shot at . n-tv , November 9, 2006
279. ↑ IDF checking French claim its UN troops almost fired at IAF jets .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , November 9, 2006  
280. ↑ Escalation in Lebanon: France calls Israel to order after a near-skirmish . Spiegel Online , November 9, 2006
281. ^ IDF admits targeting civilian areas in Lebanon with cluster bombs . ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , November 19, 2006 
282. ↑ Middle East: Israel investigates cluster bomb violations in Lebanon . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 20, 2006
283. ^ Analysis: What an IDF Chief of Staff should have known . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , November 20, 2006 
284. ↑ France okays firing at IAF over Lebanon .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Jerusalem Post , November 23, 2006  
285. ^ ^{A b} IDF officials: Mines in Lebanon could have been laid by Syria, Hezbollah . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , November 26, 2006 
286. ↑ Eisenkut: Gal Hirsch helped change face of Lebanese border . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , December 5, 2006 
287. ^ Cluster bomb blast kills man, wounds another in S. Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , December 5, 2006 
288. ^ Dan Chalutz 'letter of resignation as IDF chief of staff . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , January 17, 2007 
289. ↑ After resignation of Halutz - Perez and Olmert under pressure . n-tv , January 17, 2006
290. ↑ Ban Ki-moon calls for restraint from Israel and Lebanon after exchange of fire . United Nations , February 8, 2007
291. ↑ ^{a b} Border with Lebanon quiet after shootout . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , February 9, 2007 
292. ↑ Lebanon slams "border violation" . BBC , February 8, 2007
293. ↑ Middle East Peace Process Could Be Re-energized By Several Positive Factors, Including Palestinian Unity Government, Top Envoy Tells Security Council . United Nations , February 13, 2007
294. ↑ ^{a b} Lebanon mission: Israeli fighter jets set course for the Bundeswehr ship . Spiegel Online , May 11, 2007
295. ^ ^{A b} German ships off Lebanon: Again incidents with Israeli forces . Rheinische Post , May 11, 2007
296. ↑ ^{a b} “Incidents” - Israel's army reacts . n-tv , May 12, 2007
297. ↑ Attack in Lebanon: Madrid suspects Fatah al Islam . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 25, 2007
298. ↑ South Lebanon: Attack on UN soldiers - six dead . Spiegel Online , June 24, 2007
299. ↑ Lebanon blast kills UN soldiers . BBC , June 24, 2007
300. ↑ Haifa this was of critical wounds sustained during Lebanon . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , August 30, 2007