Hezbollah and Israel: A timeline of conflict
Al Jazeera
Yesterday’s dramatic pager attack on Hezbollah operatives was just the latest salvo in a decades-long battle.
On Tuesday evening, some 2,800 people in Lebanon were injured when their pager devices exploded – at least nine people were killed, among them three children.
Most of the people injured were members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which blamed the attack on Israel.
Hezbollah has been trading attacks across the southern Lebanese border with Israel for nearly a year, since October 8 when it began its attacks to deter Israel from its war on Gaza, which has killed at least 41,000 people.
Israel has returned fire, escalating and slowing in turn against one of the region’s most experienced nongovernmental fighting groups, which is well-armed and battle-tested against it.
The conflict between the two is not new, rather it goes back nearly half a century.
