Israel-Hezbollah war

July 12, 2006

After Hezbollah killed and abducted Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid in July, Israel pounded Lebanon for thirty-four days with airstrikes and a ground invasion while rockets fell on cities across northern Galilee. More than a thousand Lebanese and 158 Israelis died. Hezbollah survived, declared divine victory, and Hassan Nasrallah's portrait went up across the Arab street.