This Monday was Deadliest day in Lebanon since the end of the brutal civil war that devastated the country for 15 years. It was during this conflict that Israel launched its major invasion. They then managed to reach Beirut, which gave rise to one of Israel’s greatest enemies: the Hezbollah militia.
The conflict broke out in 1975The massive arrival of the Palestinian population and the increase in the number of Muslims ended up dividing Lebanon and a civil war broke out between Christian armed groups and Muslim militias.
At that time, blood was flowing in the streets of Beirut and the situation was becoming untenable.
In 1976, Syria entered the scene and two years later Israel launched Operation Litani in which its troops invaded southern Lebanon. With this operation, its objective was expel the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Three months later, the UN forced Israel to abandon the occupied territories, but in 1982, Israel launched the great invasion of Lebanon, occupying Beirut. That same year, one of its greatest enemies to date was born: Hezbollah.
Lebanese Shiite armed militias, along with other armed groups, besieged Israeli forces for a year, until the difficult clashes They forced Israel to withdraw its troops.
The war in Lebanon continued for seven more years and finally, in 1990, a brutal conflict ended. It caused more than 120,000 deaths.
