Both sides agreed that civilians should not be targeted, which meant that Hezbollah would be allowed to continue its military activities against IDF forces inside Lebanon.

In the late 1960s, Ze ' evi formed the elite Sayeret Kharuv, an anti-terror battalion, at the time when IDF Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev had begun to focus manpower and budget on armoured tank units, resulting in huge cutbacks in infantry forces.

In 1993 he was made commander of the IDF forces in the West Bank.

The IDF achieved this goal, and Arafat withdrew PLO forces north into Beirut.

* May 25 – Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 years.

* Israeli withdrawal from the Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon – on May 25, 2000 Israel withdrew IDF forces from the Israeli Security Zone in southern Lebanon after 22 years.

Unit 101 ( Hebrew: יחידה 101 ) was a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ), founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953.

After a series of unsuccessful retribution infiltrations by existing IDF units, Ben Gurion pressed Chief of Staff Mordechai Maklef to establish such a special forces unit in the summer of 1953.

Israel sent over a mission to jumpstart Singapore's economy and create, from scratch, Singapore's armed forces and its Ministry of Defence ( MINDEF ), the former modeled after the IDF in both doctrine and order of battle.

It was carried out by two Israeli units at night: a paratroop company and Unit 101, a special forces unit of the IDF.

All combat brigades in the IDF have a unit with improved weaponry and training used for reconnaissance and special forces missions, trained to use advanced weapons and reconnaissance technology, as well as hand-to-hand combat.

* Sayeret Haruv-former IDF Central Command special forces unit.

* Sayeret Shaked-former IDF Southern Command special forces unit.

IDF forces reentered Nablus during Operation Determined Path in June 2002, remaining inside the city until the end of September.

It remained in effect until January 17, 1997, when the IDF forces redeployed.

Although Morris dismisses the claim that the Palestinians were systematically expelled due to orders from Israeli officials, he nevertheless cites an IDF Intelligence Report that concludes that 70 % of the exodus was caused by Israeli forces and ' Jewish dissidents

An armored IDF Caterpillar D9 | Caterpillar D9R Bulldozer used by Israel Defense forces

The main forces fighting against the IDF were the Arab Legion and Palestinian irregulars

It covered the establishment of the IDF, conscription duties, the oath of allegiance, and the prohibition of any other armed forces.

Meanwhile, the IDF ground forces quickly overran the Egyptian army in Sinai and were about to reach Alexandria.

After three weeks of fighting, though, and with U. S. air-lifted reinforcements of weapons and equipments ( first shipment arrived on 9 October 1973 ), the IDF pushed the Syrian forces beyond the original lines.

By 10 October, the IDF recaptured the entire Golan Heights and on 11 October Israeli armored forces invaded Syria and destroyed the Iraqi reinforcements.

Phase 1, went according to plan, with IDF forces capturing three important Egyptian positions without major combat or casualties, on the operation's first day ( December 5, 1948 ).

Givati forces, combined with a special combat engineering tunnels unit, and IDF Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozers, managed to suppress most of Rafah's tunnels.

Following the demobilisation at the end of the war he was the most senior ( former ) member of the Palmach that remained in the IDF.

In March 2002 the IDF returned to Bethlehem as part of Operation Defensive Shield and remained there for an extended period of time.

After the war, he remained in the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ), rising through the ranks of the Armored Corps.

Nirim remained an Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) outpost against the Egyptian army throughout the war.

Hezbollah waged an asymmetrical guerrilla war against Israel using suicide attacks against the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) and against Israeli targets outside of Lebanon.

* A spate of attacks on IDF troops and SLA militiamen in southern Lebanon.

* On July 25, 1993, following Hezbollah's killing of seven Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Israel launched Operation Accountability ( known in Lebanon as the Seven Day War ), during which the IDF carried out their heaviest artillery and air attacks on targets in southern Lebanon since 1982.

These weapons have been used against IDF soldiers, causing many of the deaths during the 2006 Lebanon War.

Palestinian terror claimed 106 lives in northern Israel from 1967, according to official IDF statistics, while the Lebanese army had recorded " 1. 4 Israeli violations of Lebanese territory per day from 1968 – 74 " Where Lebanon had no conflict with Israel during the period 1949 – 1968, after 1968 Lebanon's southern border began to experience an escalating cycle of attack and retaliation, leading to the chaos of the civil war, foreign invasions and international intervention.

In response, the IDF launched Operation Litani three days later, with the goal of taking control of Southern Lebanon up to the Litani River.

One incident that was often claimed as a motivation is the perceived IDF failure in the " Night of the Gliders ", or the " Kibia action ", in which a Palestinian guerrilla infiltrated an IDF army camp from Lebanon and killed six soldiers.

Nevertheless, Anglo-Israeli relations became turbulent in the summer of 2006 when Prime Minister Tony Blair, along with many other European leaders criticized IDF airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, which had high civilian casualties.

Al-Nabi Rubin inhabitants were expelled to Lebanon in two waves, the aged and infirm were the last to depart when the IDF trucked them to the Lebanese border.

During Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Hobeika acted as the principal military liaison to the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ).

The citizens of the town had suffered almost daily attack from the mid-1970s until 2000, when the IDF left Lebanon.

In those years the IDF invested most of its efforts in countering international terror, such as the Munich Massacre, committed by the PLO following its deportion from Jordan to Lebanon in the " Black September " of 1970.

Because of waves of terrorist attacks ( most notable is the road massacre of 37 civilians ) coming from the PLO in Lebanon, the IDF undertook Operation Litani, a wide-ranging and thorough anti-terrorist operation that included occupying part of Southern Lebanon in 1978.

" In response, the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) launched a military offensive into Lebanon.

IDF Special Operations took place within the borders of Lebanon.

* Ron Arad, an IDF F-4 Phantom II navigator, was lost over Lebanon on October 16, 1986.