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Key events in Lebanon-Israel conflict
(AP)
Updated: 2006-07-14 08:46

- 1978: Israeli forces invade south Lebanon to attack Palestinian
guerrillas, retaliating for an attack on an Israeli bus that killed more
than 35 people near Tel Aviv. U.N. Security Council calls for Israeli
withdrawal and an international peacekeeping force for south Lebanon.

- 1982: Israel invades again, this time occupying part of Beirut. Israeli
attacks leave up to 14,000 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians dead.
Shiite Muslims form the militant group Hezbollah, which becomes the main
opposition to the Israeli occupation.

- 1982: In September, the Israeli army moves into Beirut a day after
Lebanese president-elect Bashir Gemayel is killed in a bomb explosion.
Israeli-allied Christian militiamen massacre hundreds of Palestinians in
Beirut's Sabra and Chatila refugee camps.

- 1985: Israel retreats south, but sets up a border buffer zone in south
Lebanon. Israel trades three Israeli soldiers captured by Palestinian
guerrillas in 1982 for 1,150 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.

- 1986: Israeli warplane shot down in south Lebanon, navigator Ron Arad
captured by Shiite guerrillas. His fate remains unclear, but he is
presumed dead.

- 1992: Israeli jets kill Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas Mussawi. The group
chooses current leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.

- 1993: In July, Israel launches its heaviest artillery and air assault
on south Lebanon since 1982 in bid to eradicate Hezbollah and Palestinian
guerrillas.

- 1994: Israeli troops abduct Lebanese guerrilla leader Mustafa Dirani,
hoping to use him to get information about missing Israeli Ron Arad.
Israeli aircraft strike a Hezbollah base, killing about 50 guerrillas.

- 1996: In April Israel launches an operation in another bid to end
guerrilla attacks. Israeli jets also strike Lebanese power stations.
Israeli artillery kills more than 100 Lebanese civilians sheltering at a
U.N. base in Qana, south Lebanon.

- 1997: Twelve Israeli soldiers killed in commando raid on south Lebanon.

- 2000: In May, Israeli troops withdraw from buffer zone, ending 18 years
of occupation. In October, Hezbollah captures three Israeli soldiers,
later found dead, in a border attack. Later the group kidnaps an Israeli
businessman.

- 2004: Hezbollah swaps the Israeli businessman and the remains of the
three Israeli soldiers for 436 Arab prisoners, including Dirani, and the
bodies of 59 Lebanese fighters. Israel still holds at least three
Lebanese prisoners and Hezbollah vows to win their release.

- 2006: On July 12, Hezbollah kidnaps two Israeli soldiers in
cross-border raid. Israel responds by sending in tanks and by bombing
bridges and roads in south Lebanon to try to prevent the hostages from
being taken north.

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