Israeli barbarity on the front pages of the newspapers. (Credit: L’OLJ Archives) Israeli barbarity on the front pages of the newspapers. (Credit: L’OLJ Archives)
Lebanon and Israel, since its inception in 1948, have fought on-and-off wars with one another for the better part of these 75 years. Each war was punctuated by UN Security Council resolutions to honor borders, create demilitarized zones and establish some semblance of peace.
Yet the cycle of war continues and Israel’s latest breach, deep into Beirut, to assassinate senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri on Jan. 2 is another incident to add to the history books.
L'Orient Today takes you back in time to look at key moments in the long history of tension and conflict between Lebanon and Israel.
The Lebanese delegate signs the Lebanese-Israel armistice on March 23, 1949. (Credit: ACME NEWSPICTURES / AFP)
Artistic rendering of burnt airplanes at the Beirut International Airport. (Credit: Jaimee Lee Haddad / L'OLJ)
Picture taken in Beirut in 1973 shows Yasser Arafat at a rally organized by the Nasserite Party in tribute to three Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leaders who were assassinated by Israeli commandos in the heart of Beirut the same year. (Credit: AFP)
Antoine Lahd (2nd from left) speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, July 19, 1985.(Credit: AFP Archives)
French paratroopers, part of the contingent of UN troops of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), are embarked on a UN boat, in April 1978, to return to France. (Credit: AFP)
After a siege of three months, the Fédayins leave Beirut brandishing the portrait of their Yasser Arafat head of the PLO. Lebanon, Beirut - August 1982. (Credit: José Nicolas / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas/AFP)
Saad Haddad (left) and his men. (Credit: L’OLJ Archives)
“Please. Help me,” Ibrahim el-Aabed says in a whisper. His mother and seven brothers and sisters were struck by Israeli missile at their home in Nabatiyeh. (Credit: Ramzi Haidar/AFP)
A group of women in southern Lebanon celebrates liberation day. (Credit: L'OLJ Archives)
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud decorates Mustapha Dirani, who was kidnapped by Israeli commandos in 1994 and freed in a prisoner swap recently, with the order of the cedar at the Baabda presidential palace, outside Beirut, 10 February 2004. Dirani was freed along with 400 others, including Palestinians and other Arab nationals on January 29, from Israeli jails as part of a prisoner swap between Israel and the Lebanese Islamic group Hezbollah. (Credit: DALATI & NOHRA / AFP)
The destruction of a bridge in Damour in Al Chouf during the 2006 Lebanon war. (Credit: L'OLJ Archives)
A man walks down a crater left by a rocket following Israeli air strikes in Qlaileh, on the outskirts of the city of Sour, south of the Lebanese capital Beirut on April 7, 2023. Israel launched air strikes before dawn on April 7 in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, saying it was targeting Hamas in retaliation for several dozen rockets fired at Israel from both territories. (Credit: Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)