July 12: Hizbullah terrorists infiltrated into Israeli territory and attacked two IDF armored jeeps patrolling the border with Lebanon, killing three soldiers and kidnapping two. Ground forces entered Lebanon in the area of the attack. A large explosive device was detonated underneath an Israeli tank, killing all four of the tank crew. An eighth soldier was killed when IDF troops entered Lebanon to try to retrieve the bodies of the tank crew.
Throughout the day, Hizbullah terror organization fired Katyusha rockets and mortar shells at Israel's northern borders' communities and IDF posts.
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Kidnapped soldiers Eldad Regev, 26, of Kiryat Motzkin
and Ehud Goldwasser, 31, of Nahariya
July 13: Monica Seidman (Lehrer), 40, of Nahariya was killed in her home by a Katyusha rocket Thursday morning. In the evening, Nitzan Roseban, 33, was killed in Safed by a direct rocket hit. On Thursday evening Katyushas first landed in Haifa.
- IAF bombs Beirut airport, navy blockades Lebanese ports.
July 14: Shortly after 8:30 p.m. Friday night an Israeli navy ship was severely damaged by an Iran-manufactured missile fired by Hizbullah. Four IDF soldiers were killed.
- Summary of attack on IDF missile ship
- On Friday evening, Omer Pesachov, 7, of Nahariya and his grandmother Yehudit Itzkovitch, 58, of Moshav Meron were killed by a Katyusha rocket in Meron. The family had fled the Katyushas in Nahariya to spend a quiet weekend with their grandparents.
Israelis in a bomb shelter in Haifa (Reuters)
July 15: Katyusha rockets landed for the first time in Tiberias, located 35 kilometers from the Lebanese border on the Sea of Galilee, as well as in nearby communities.
July 16: Rockets began falling on the Haifa area shortly after 9:00 a.m. Eight employees of Israel Railways at the Haifa train depot were killed in a direct hit by a Fajar missile made in Syria. A total of over 50 people were wounded in Haifa and the Haifa Bay area.
Rescue workers at Haifa train depot after Hizbullah rocket
attack (Reuters)
July 17: Over 50 rockets were fired towards the eastern and upper Galilee on Monday night. A Katyusha rocket hit the Rebecca Sieff Hospital in Safed, causing damage to infrastructure; five patients, two doctors and two other hospital employees were injured. Earlier, 11 people were wounded in Haifa when a 3-story apartment building was hit by missile.
- The Israel Air Force destroyed at least ten long-range Iranian-made missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv, targeting a Hizbullah truck carrying the missiles before they could be launched. To date, missiles have been fired up to 40 kilometers into Israel.
Remains of the Iranian Zelzal missile land in Lebanese
residential area (Newspix/News Ltd.).
July 18: Andrei Zelinksy, 36, was killed Tuesday evening in Nahariya outside a bomb shelter.
Some 130 rockets were fired at the north on Tuesday, 100 of them within one hour and a half - also landing in the Haifa area, Karmiel, Tiberias, Safed, Maalot and Rosh Pina. About 60 people injured were evacuated to hospitals in Safed and Nahariya.
Hospital worker collects broken glass from shattered window
after rocket attack in Safed, July 18, 2006 (Reuters)
July 19: Two soldiers were killed and nine wounded in exchanges of fire between IDF and Hizbullah in Maroun al-Ras, in southern Lebanon, near Moshav Avivim. The Israeli force had crossed the border to destroy the Hizbullah rocket-launching position at the former IDF outpost of Shaked.
Rabia Abed Taluzi (3) and his brother Mahmoud (7) who were playing soccer outside their house were killed and dozens were wounded in two Katyusha rocket attacks on the Israeli Arab city of Nazareth.
Katyusha rocket launchers (IDF Spokesman)
July 20: Five IDF soldiers were killed and five wounded in continuing exchanges of fire in the Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras, where two soldiers were killed on Wednesday. The body of the fifth soldier, St.-Sgt. Yonatan (Sergei) Vlasyuk, 21, of Kibbutz Lahav was retrieved on July 22.
An IDF officer was killed and three soldiers were wounded as two Apache (Cobra) combat helicopters on their way to Lebanon to assist IDF forces operating against Hizbullah terrorists near Avivim collided and then crashed south of Kiryat Shmona.
- PM Olmert, DM Peretz and FMLivni approved the establishment of a "humanitarian corridor" between Lebanon and Cyprus.
IDF forces destroyed a vehicle in the village of Mervachin,
in southern Lebanon (July 22), containing anti-tank missiles.
A missile stockpile was found in the basement of the
village mosque, seen on photograph. (IDF Spokesman)
July 23: Shimon Glicklich, 60, of Haifa was killed Sunday morning (11:00) while driving his car in Haifa. Habib Isa Awad, 48, of Iblin, was killed while working in the carpentry shop in Kiryat Ata. Another 12 were wounded in the morning barrage in Haifa, and more later in the day as over 90 rockets were fired at Haifa, Akko, Kiryat Shmona, and elsewhere in northern Israel.
- World diplomats come to Israel for talks: French FM Douste-Blazy, German FM Steinmeier, British Minister of State Howells.
FM Livni meets with French FM Douste-Blazy in Jerusalem
(Reuters)
July 24: An IDF officer and soldier were killed and 14 soldiers were wounded in heavy exchanges of fire between IDF forces and Hizbullah terrorists near the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, which had become Hizbullah's main base of terror operations since Israel's withdrawal in 2000. Two Hizbullah terrorists were taken captive. (IDF Spokesman)
- Two pilots were killed Monday afternoon when their Apache helicopter crashed north of Safed while assisting ground troops in Lebanon.
- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Israel for talks.
July 25: Doua Abbas, a 15-year-old girl, was killed when a rocket struck her home near the mosque in the Galilee village of Maghar, home to Israeli Druze and Moslems.
- PM Olmert meets with Secy of State Rice.
July 26: Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 25 wounded in fighting with Hizbullah terrorists in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, which IDF infantry and armored corps had surrounded a day earlier, and later in fighting near Maroun al-Ras.
- International Conference for Lebanon convened in Rome, co-chaired by Italy and the United States, and attended by the foreign ministers and top representatives of the Lebanon Core Group and other invitees.
A home in Kiryat Shmona hit by a Katyusha rocket (Reuters)
July 28: Long-range missiles hit Afula.
July 29: US Secy of State returns to the region.
July 30: Israel expresses regret at civilian deaths in Kafr Qana but places blame on Hizbullah for using them as "human shields" to fire rockets at Israel.
- Israel agrees to 48-hour suspension of aerial activity in south Lebanon.
- UN Security Council convenes.
Aug 1: IDF broadens ground operations after approval by Political-Security Cabinet. Three IDF soldiers were killed, 25 wounded in IDF operation in Ayta a-Sha'ab.
Aug 2: A record number of rockets (210) hit Israeli population centers A resident of Kibbutz Saar, Dave Lelchook, was killed while riding a bicycle in the kibbutz.
Hizbullah also fired several long-range missiles, one landing between Beit She'an and Jenin, over 70 km from the northern border - the furthest point in Israel hit to date.
Kibbutz Saar (Reuters)
Aug 3: Eight Israelis were killed in Acre and near Ma'alot-Tarshiha as more than 160 Katyushas landed in northern Israel. Dozens were wounded, 13 of them seriously.
- Four soldiers were killed and another seriously wounded by anti-tank missiles in heavy fighting with Hizbullah in Rajamin and Taibeh in southern Lebanon.
Aug 4: Over 200 rockets were fired at northern Israel, killing three people. At least 86 more were wounded, one critically and five seriously. For the first time since the fighting in the north broke out, Hizbullah fired long-range rockets toward the Hadera area.
- Two soldiers and an officer of the Golani Brigade were killed by an anti-tank missile in the south Lebanese village of Markhava.
Manal Azzam, 27-year-old mother of two, is laid to rest in
Maghar (Reuters)
Aug 5: Fadiya Juma'a, 60, and her daughters Sultana and Samira were killed in the courtyard of their home in the Bedouin village of Arab al-Aramshe near the border between Israel and Lebanon. Frida Kellner, 87, of Kiryat Ata died of a heart attack while taking cover in a bomb shelter during the rocket strikes on the Haifa suburbs.
- US and France agree on first draft for UN Security Council resolution.
Fadiya Juma'a and her daughter Sultana
Aug 6: Twelve IDF paratroop reservists were killed and 12 wounded shortly after noon in a direct hit by a Katyusha rocket near Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, north of Kiryat Shmona, as they were preparing to enter Lebanon.
Reuters
- Three people were killed and close to 200 wounded Sunday evening when rockets struck at seven residential locations in Haifa. Some were trapped in an apartment building that collapsed.
Direct hit on apartment building in the mixed Jewish-Arab
neighborhood of Wadi Nisnas in Haifa - Aug 6, 2006 (Reuters)
Aug 9: 15 reserve soldiers were killed and 40 wounded in four different incidents in south Lebanon.
- Political-Security Cabinet approves plans for expanded operation in Lebanon, pending authorization of the prime minister and defense minister.
Aug 11: PM Olmert and DM Peretz give green light to advance to Litani.
- The Security Council passed a resolution (1701) calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities followed by the deployment of Lebanese troops and a significantly expanded United Nations peacekeeping presence across southern Lebanon as well as the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from the area.
Aug 12: 19 IDF soldiers were killed in ground operations on Saturday, and 85 were injured. Five aircrew members were killed when their helicopter was shot down by Hizbullah. (IDF Spokesman)
Aug 13: "The Government of Israel announces its decision to accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, and will act according to its obligations as outlined in the resolution." Cease-fire also approved by the Lebanese government.
- On last day before cease-fire, over 250 rockets were fired at north Israel, killing one and wounding 80. Nine IDF soldiers were killed in south Lebanon.
Aug 14: Cease-fire entered into effect at 8:00 AM.