Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah since 2006 war
After an escalation of hostilities Sunday amid over 10 months of cross-border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah, here are the major eruptions of violence since their 2006 war.
The devastating month-long war in the summer of 2006 cost Lebanon more than 1,200 lives, mostly civilians, while some 160 Israelis were killed, mostly soldiers.
The following years saw sporadic attacks, which surged following the October 7 attack by Hezbollah's Palestinian ally Hamas on Israel.
- 2007-2013: rocket fire and incursion -
On June 17, 2007, two rockets are fired into northern Israel from Lebanon hitting an industrial zone in the border town of Kiryat Shmona without causing casualties. Hezbollah denies responsibility.
In early August 2010, a move by Israeli troops to uproot trees in a disputed border area at Adaysseh sparks a deadly border battle in which two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist are killed along with a senior Israeli officer.
On August 7, 2013 four Israeli soldiers on patrol are wounded in a blast claimed by Hezbollah 400 meters (yards) inside Lebanese territory.
- 2014-2015: Israeli strikes -
On February 26, 2014 Hezbollah says Israeli warplanes had carried out an air raid on one of its positions at Lebanon's border with Syria.
On October 7, Israel strikes two Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon in response to its bomb attack against Israeli troops on the ceasefire line on the Shebaa hills between the two countries that wounded two soldiers.
On January 28, 2015, two Israeli soldiers are killed in a Hezbollah ambush in the Shebaa hills.
The attack is carried out in retaliation for a raid blamed on Israel 10 days earlier on the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights, which killed at least six members of Hezbollah and an Iranian general.
In retaliation, Israeli tanks and artillery bombard several villages in southern Lebanon.
- 2019: drones and missiles strikes -
On August 25, 2019 two explosive-laden drones hit the southern Beirut suburbs, causing material damage according to Hezbollah, which blames the attack on Israel.
The day before, an Israeli air strike in Syria had killed two Hezbollah members.
On September 1, the Israeli army and Hezbollah trade missile fire along the border.
- 2021: uptick in clashes -
On August 4, 2021 three rockets are fired from Lebanon, of which two fall in Israel. The Israeli army responds with air strikes on southern Lebanon.
On August 6, Hezbollah fires more than 10 rockets at Israel, which responds with artillery fire.
- 2023-2024: October 7 attacks aftermath -
Hezbollah has traded almost daily cross-border fire with Israel since Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.
In southern Lebanon, a Reuters video journalist is killed on October 13, and six other journalists from AFP, Reuters and Al Jazeera wounded in a strike by an Israeli tank.
On January 2, 2024 Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri is killed in Beirut's southern suburbs in a strike blamed on Israel.
On February 26, Israeli strikes Hezbollah targets in the Bekaa Valley in the first such raid on Lebanon's east since fighting erupted in October.
- July, August 2024: Hezbollah, Fatah chiefs killed -
On July 27, a rocket strike kills 12 children aged 10-16 in the Druze Arab town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
Israel blames the strike on Hezbollah, which denies the claim.
The Israeli army responds by striking Beirut's southern suburbs on July 30, killing Hezbollah's top commander in the south, Fouad Shukur.
In an August 21 strike, the Israeli military kills Khalil Maqdah, described by the Palestinian Fatah movement as "one of the leaders" of its armed wing in Lebanon.
- August 2024: hostilities surge -
On August 25, Hezbollah says it launches a barrage of hundreds of rockets and drones on Israel in response to the killing of Shukur. It says its operation "was completed and accomplished."
But Israel says it has thwarted the attack, launching air strikes into Lebanon that the military says destroyed "hundreds" of Hezbollah rocket launchers.
