Lebanon-Israel War
In 2006 the capture by Hezbollah of two Israeli soldiers triggered the start of a month-long conflict with massive airstrikes, an air and sea blockade, and the ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
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A chess board and unemptied ashtrays are seen in an abandoned house in the near-deserted and heavily-bombed village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Aziza Ousayran, 77, raises her hands in the air to God and asks how she will get out of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon Friday, July 21, 2006. After over a week of sustained Israeli airstrikes on the previously densely-populated Hezbollah-controlled area of the capital, few civilians remain. The woman was later offered a ride out of the area by western journalists. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A blind woman, who had lost both her eyes through an unknown cause and was unable to give her name, wails after failing to find transport to take her back to her village, outside a hospital in Tibnin where she and others had taken refuge, in southern Lebanon Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
** EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT ** A man carrying a pistol in his right pocket rushes to the scene seconds after a double Israeli missile attack, believed to have originated from a drone, struck and killed two men on a motorcycle in a street in Tyre, southern Lebanon Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006. Tyre was the scene of an overnight gunbattle between Israeli naval commandos and Hezbollah fighters, and the two men on the motorcycle appeared to have been specifically targeted. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Hezbollah supporters furious over an Israeli airstrike in Qana that killed up to 50 refugees, one carrying a Lebanese flag, smash through glass as they storm their way into the main United Nations building in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, July 30, 2006. Thousands of Hezbollah supporters, many burning U.S. and U.N. flags, scaled fences, smashed bulletproof glass, and threw rocks at the building before storming through barriers and entering the ground floor of the building itself. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A woman cries as she walks after returning to see the damage to her house in the near-deserted village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Relatives carrying portraits of some of those killed walk to a mass funeral procession in Qana, southern Lebanon Friday, Aug. 18, 2006. The funeral of 29 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 30th - half of them children - took place about half a kilometer from the two-story home which was destroyed in the attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A relative of one of the dead recovers after fainting with emotion, center, as a young boy dressed in clothes intended to represent a Hezbollah uniform and carrying a toy gun watches the coffins pass by, during the funeral procession of nine Hezbollah fighters in the village of Deir Qanoun en Nahr, east of Tyre in southern Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006. The nine Hezbollah fighters died during the war and had been buried in a makeshift mass grave in Tyre whilst it was too dangerous to hold funerals, and were subsequently exhumed and reburied at the mass funeral in Deir Qanoun en Nahr where they originated from. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A relative walks amongst the graves in advance of a mass funeral in Qana, southern Lebanon Friday, Aug. 18, 2006. The funeral of 29 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 30th - half of them children - took place about half a kilometer from the two-story home which was destroyed in the attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
American citizens walk to board the Orient Queen cruise ship to be evacuated from the capital Beirut in Lebanon Thursday, July 20, 2006 as thousands of foreigners continued their attempts to flee the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Hezbollah supporters furious over an Israeli airstrike in Qana that killed up to 50 refugees, smash through glass with rocks as they storm their way into the main United Nations building in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, July 30, 2006. Thousands of Hezbollah supporters, many burning U.S. and U.N. flags, scaled fences, smashed bulletproof glass, and thew rocks at the building before storming through barriers and entering the ground floor of the building itself. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Ghadir Shaito, 15, left, lies in a hospital bed accompanied by an unidentified relative at the Rafik Hariri hospital in Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, July 25, 2006. The injured said three members of the Shaito family were killed and nine injured oustide their village near Bent Jbail in southern Lebanon, when their convoy was struck by an Israeli airstrike after they ventured from their houses after running out of food and water. The family claimed that a U.N. convoy stopped to take their photographs but did not provide assistance and they were finally taken to Beirut by the Lebanese Red Cross. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)