Following an earlier shooting near a church, Kataeb gunmen attacked a bus carrying Palestinian and Lebanese passengers. Accounts differ on passenger numbers and the day’s preceding incidents....
Israeli air strikes in the Beirut area were followed by intensive exchanges of fire involving PLO and Lebanese National Movement forces and Israeli forces and their local allies. The UN appealed for a...
Israel launched a major ground invasion of Lebanon after aerial bombardment and cross-border fighting. PLO and Lebanese National Movement forces resisted Israeli advances; UNIFIL attempted to obstruct...
By mid-June Israeli forces had surrounded Beirut after advancing through Lebanon. PLO and allied Lebanese fighters defended positions; residents endured shelling, displacement and shortages. The siege...
