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Israeli Military Intervention In Lebanon 1982

General Information
Israeli military intervention in Lebanon, 1982
Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, June 1982
Date	From June to September 1982
Location	South Lebanon , in southern Lebanon
Issue	Military victory (and occupation) Israel
Belligerents
South Lebanon Army Phalange Israel	Syria PLO Hezbollah Amal Lebanese Communist Party PSNS
Commanders
Menachem Begin Ariel Sharon David Ivry Ze'ev Almog Rafael Eitan Pierre Gemayel Saad Haddad	Yasser Arafat Hafez al-Assad Mustafa Tlass Abdul Rauf al-Kasm George Hawi Assaad Hardan Marwan Fares Ragheb Harb Nabih Berri
Forces present
76 000 men 800 battle tanks 1.500 troop transport vehicles 634 aircraft 5000 men 70 tanks 8000 men	22 000 men 352 battle tanks 300 vehicles for troop transport 450 aircraft 300 pieces of heavy artillery 225 antiaircraft batteries (100 guns, 125 air defense missiles 15 000 men 300 battle tanks 150 vehicles for troop transport over 350 pieces of heavy artillery More than 250 anti-aircraft batteries
Losses
	2130 dead, rebels and civilians 1600 prisoners
Lebanese civil war - Arab-Israeli Conflict
Battles
Operation mole cricket 19 - Battle of Sultan Yacoub - The Siege of Beirut
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The Operation Peace for Galilee (in Hebrew : - ", transliteration or invasion of Lebanon in 1982 (in Arabic : 1982, transliteration is an episode the Lebanon War in which the Israeli army invaded southern Lebanon from 6 June 1982 officially in order to stop Palestinian attacks from the PLO based in Lebanon.

Summary

1 Background
2 Protagonists
- 2.1 Israel and its allies
- 2.2 The PLO and its allies
3 Casualties
4 Stages
5 References
6 See also

Background

In 1976 , the Syria imposes a cease-fire because she had never accepted that Lebanon is a country ^Protagonists

Israel and its allies

The Israeli army, IDF , is supported by the South Lebanon Army and Lebanese Phalange , mostly Christian Lebanese militias.

The Israeli prime minister at the time was Menachem Begin while Rafael Eitan was chief of Staff of the IDF and Ariel Sharon , the Minister of Defence.

The PLO and its allies

The main opponent of the IDF is the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), allied with the Syrian army and several Lebanese militias, the most important are the Progressive Socialist Party of Walid Jumblatt and the militia of Amal , the nationalist party Syrian Social as well as the Communist Party.

The leader of Fatah and the PLO Yasser Arafat.

Casualties

The Israeli army lost 670 soldiers during the conflict, bringing to 1,216 the total number of soldiers killed between 1982 and 2000. 17 825 Arabs died in this war at least 10,000 were soldiers of the Syrian army and Palestinian militias .

History

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The PLO takes on Israeli towns from Beirut endangering civilians.

From June 11, a first cease-fire was declared between the Palestinian militias and the Israeli army.

The refusal of the PLO to leave Beirut causes renewed fighting until September 1982 .

Bachir Gemayel then ally of Israeli willingness to engage in peace with the State of Israel , is killed by a militant of the SSNP , which will lead to the massacre of Sabra and Shatila.