2026 Lebanon war
| 2026 Lebanon war | ||||||||
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| Part of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict (2023–present) and the 2026 Iran war | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
| Israel |
Lebanon UNIFIL Attacked by Hezbollah: Syria | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Naim Qassem Ali Zadeh X Reza Khazaei X Adham Adnan al-Othman X Ahmad Abdullah X |
Joseph Aoun Nawaf Salam Nabih Berri | |||||||
| Units involved | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
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2 soldiers killed 14 soldiers injured |
3 soldiers killed 3 peacekeepers injured | |||||||
| 773 killed, 1,933 injured, 830,441 displaced in Lebanon | ||||||||
On 2 March 2026, during the ongoing war with Iran between Israel and the United States, Hezbollah, an Iranian-allied proxy in Lebanon, launched strikes on Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Hezbollah later claimed that the attack was a "defensive act" after over a year of near-daily Israeli attacks despite a truce. It added that it restarted fighting to force Israel to stop its aggression and evacuate from seized Lebanese territories, emphasising that the move was unrelated to the Iran war. In response, Israel launched strikes in Beirut, the Lebanese capital. The war is a major escalation in the wider conflict throughout the Middle East.