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Damour

During Israeli invasion of 1982, the Israeli air force bombed the city which was under the control of the Palestinian militias.

Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners

FLLF operations came to a sudden halt just prior to the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, only to be resumed the following year with four huge car-bomb attacks: the first one on 28 January 1983 struck a PLO headquarters at Chtaura in the Syrian-controlled Beqaa Valley, killing 40, coupled by a second on 3 February at West Beirut that devastated the Palestine Research Center offices and left 20 people dead.

Front of Patriotic and National Parties

The alliance lasted until mid-1982, when it collapsed together with their LNM rival in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Islamic Jihad Organization

Based at Baalbek in the Beqaa valley, the group aligned 200 Lebanese Shiite militants financed by Iran and trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ contingent previously sent by Ayatollah Khomeini to fight the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Islamic Unification Movement

A hardliner who believed that force was a good solution in politics, the radical Shaaban broke away from the Islamic Group soon after the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, in protest for that Party’s leadership decision of adopting a non-violent, moderate political line in the early 1980s.

Israeli invasion of Lebanon

2006 Lebanon War, a military conflict in Lebanon, northern Israel and the Golan Heights

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1978 South Lebanon conflict, an invasion of Lebanon up to the Litani River carried out by the Israel Defense Forces

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1982 Lebanon War, Israel Defense Forces invasion of southern Lebanon

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Operation Accountability, week-long attack by Israeli forces against Lebanon in July 1993

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Operation Grapes of Wrath, 1996 Israeli Defense Forces campaign against Lebanon

Sixth of February Movement

However, the political collapse of the LNM in the wake of the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent departure of the PLO from Beirut meant that the smaller Nasserist militias (‘6th FM’ included) had to fend for themselves.

The Fateful Triangle

New developments that have been incorporated are such as the Palestinian uprising, Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the ongoing peace process.