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Lebanon War

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A repeat of the Israel-Lebanon war? 15 posts built by a Lebanese terror group | English News | WION

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Understanding Lebanon in 3 minutes

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Lebanon's Minefields | Clearing the Hidden Remnants of War | United Nations

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Israel's army veteran grapples with scars of first Lebanon war

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15 Years Since 2nd Israel-Lebanon War

The 1982 Lebanon War, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israeli government, later known in Israel as the Lebanon War or the First Lebanon War, and known in Lebanon as "the invasion", began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invaded southern Lebanon, after repeated attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the IDF that had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border. The military operation was launched after gunmen from Abu Nidal's organization attempted to assassinate Shlomo Argov, Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin blamed Abu Nidal's enemy, the PLO, for the incident, and treated the incident as a casus belli for the invasion.