Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon

The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon takes place after Israel invaded Lebanon during the 1982 Lebanon War and subsequently retained its forces to support the Christian South Lebanon Army in Southern Lebanon

In 1982, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and allied Free Lebanon Army Christian militias seize large sections of Lebanon, including the capital of Beirut, amid the hostilities of the wider Lebanese Civil War.

Later, Israel withdrew from parts of the occupied area between 1983 and 1985, but remains in partial control of the border region known as the South Lebanon Security Belt, initially in coordination with the self-proclaimed Free Lebanon State, which executes a limited authority over portions of southern Lebanon until 1984, and later with the South Lebanon Army (transformed from Free Lebanon Army), until the year 2000.

During the stay in the security belt, the IDF holds many positions and supports the SLA.

The SLA takes over daily life in the security zone, initially as the official force of the Free Lebanon State and later as an allied militia.

Notably, the South Lebanon Army controls the prison in Khiam.

In addition, United Nations (UN) forces and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are deployed to the security belt (from the end of Operation Litani in 1978).

The strip is a few kilometers wide, and consists of about ten percent of the total territory of Lebanon, which houses about 1one hundred and fifty thousand people who live in sixty-seven villages and towns made up of Shiites, Maronites and Druze (most of whom live in the town of Hasbaya).

In the central zone of the Strip is the Maronite town Marjayoun, which is the capital of the security belt. Residents remaining in the security zone have many contacts with Israel, many of whom have worked there and received various services from Israel.

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