2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
| 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon | ||||||||||
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| Part of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) | ||||||||||
Israel Attested Hezbollah presence in Lebanon Lebanese territory under Israeli control Syria Areas ordered evacuated by Israel See here for a more detailed map | ||||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||||
| Israel |
Hezbollah Allies: Lebanon | UNIFIL | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||||
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Benjamin Netanyahu Israel Katz Herzi Halevi Ori Gordin Guy Levi Elad Tzuri Yeftah Norkin |
Naim Qassem Hashem Safieddine X Maurice Sleem Joseph Aoun |
Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz Chok Bahadur Dhakal Jean-Jacques Fatinet Axel Schulz M Ghoffar Ngismangil Johan Effendi Mohd Salleh | ||||||||
| Units involved | ||||||||||
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List of units:
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Garuda Contingent MALBATT 121st/125th Infantry Battalion | ||||||||
| Strength | ||||||||||
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15,000 Per Hezbollah: 70,000+ soldiers 100+ military vehicles |
20,000–100,000 80,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||||
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Per IDF: 60 soldiers killed 900 soldiers injured Per Hezbollah: 95+ soldiers killed 900+ soldiers injured 42 Merkava tanks destroyed 4 military bulldozers destroyed |
Per Lebanon: 2,720 Lebanese killed (mostly civilians) 41 Lebanese Army soldiers killed 28 medics killed (including medics affiliated with Hezbollah, and the Amal Party) 40 search and rescue personnel killed Per Hezbollah: 5,000 Hezbollah fighters killed and 13,000 wounded Per IDF: 2,762 Hezbollah fighters killed 8 surrendered Thousands injured, at least 7,000 severely or moderately 80% of pre-war Hezbollah rockets and missiles destroyed (denied by Hezbollah) |
Per UNIFIL: 42 UN peacekeepers wounded | ||||||||
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1.4 million+ Lebanese civilians displaced | ||||||||||
A war between Israel and Hezbollah took place in Southern Lebanon during 2024 amid the Middle Eastern crisis. The war began on 1 October when Israel crossed the Blue Line in its sixth invasion of Lebanon since 1978, following nearly 12 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. On 26 November, Israel and Lebanon signed a ceasefire agreement, mediated by France and the United States. The ceasefire went into effect on 27 November, though some attacks continued as part of the broader conflict.
Hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel erupted shortly after Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, when Hezbollah joined the conflict in support of Hamas, launching rockets into northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Cross borders attacks resulted in a large number of displaced people on both sides of the border. Prior to the incursions, Israel had conducted major attacks in Lebanon including an attack on pagers and electronic devices, and assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel had also conducted an aerial bombing campaign throughout Lebanon, killing over 800 Lebanese people in one week in late September. Israel stated that it had been operating to remove the threat that Hezbollah's military capabilities was posing.
At the start of the invasion, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) withdrew from parts of the Blue Line. On 27 November, the ceasefire agreement came into effect. Israel has reported 56 of its soldiers and 2,762 Hezbollah militants killed in the invasion, while the Lebanese government has reported Israel killing 2,720 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces were to withdraw from Lebanon by 26 January 2025, but Israel refused to do so, leading to a new deadline of Israeli withdrawal by 18 February 2025. Israel did not fully withdraw by the new deadline, as it withdrew troops from Lebanese villages but kept Israeli forces maintaining five military outposts on highlands in Southern Lebanon.