Hezbollah has emerged as a leading political…
July 1993 CE
Hezbollah has emerged as a leading political party in post-civil war Lebanon.
During the summer of 1993, attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas on Israel and its client South Lebanon Army lead to a sudden escalation of violence.
On July 25, Israel launches its largest artillery, naval, and air strike since 1982.
The attack lasts six days and leaves more than one hundred and thirty dead, five hundred wounded, and three hundred thousand homeless from seventy-five villages.
A cease-fire on July 31 is followed by Lebanese action to revoke all gun permits in the south and by the deployment of an army battalion to help maintain peace; ...
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