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1948: Lebanon fights alongside other Arab countries against the nascent state of Israel. Lebanon and Israel agree an armistice in 1949.
1968: Israeli commandos destroy a dozen passenger planes at Beirut airport in response to an attack on an Israeli airliner by a Lebanon-based Palestinian guerrilla group.
1973: Disguised Israeli special forces shoot dead three Palestinian guerrilla leaders in Beirut in retaliation for the killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
1978: Israel invades south Lebanon and sets up a narrow occupation zone.
1982: Israel invades Lebanon all the way to Beirut in an offensive that followed tit-for-tat border fire.
1996: Israel mounts a 17-day “Operation Grapes of Wrath” offensive that kills more than 200 people in Lebanon.
2000: Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon, ending 22 years of occupation.
2023-24: Hezbollah begins trading fire with Israel on Oct. 8, a day after Hamas attacked communities in southern Israel and sparked the Gaza war.
Source: Reuters
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