Lebanese press and officials often refer to the northern, higher part of the Shaba Farms, just southeast of the Lebanese village of Kafr Shuba, as the Kafr Shuba Hills.

Senior Lebanese officials also linked the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Shebaa to Hezbollah ’ s disarmament.

:" When it was clear the Israelis were going to withdraw fully from Lebanon, Syrian and Lebanese officials fabricated the fiction that this small, sparsely populated area was part of Lebanon.

A mechanism has been set up for both forces to work together, Rød-Larsen said, with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora agreeing with UNIFIL force commander Gen. Alain Pellegrini to meet weekly with top security officials from both forces.

The CIA reportedly paid Hobeika ( through Lebanese army intelligence officers ) to assassinate Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of the militant Shi ' ite group Hezbollah because Fadlallah was considered by US officials to have taken part in planning the October 1983 bombing of the US marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 servicemen.

The conference, which took place at the start of February, was also said to have been attended by senior members of the Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian intelligence services who presented a list of Israeli intelligence officials to be assassinated.

Lebanese officials have filed over 1600 air space violations by Israel since the 2000 withdrawal.

Arriving in Beirut on 25 February, the mission interviewed Lebanese officials and politicians, from both the government and opposition, studied the Lebanese investigation and legal proceedings, examined the crime scene and collected evidence.

A United Nations investigation of the incident by Detlev Mehlis, released in October 2005, pointed the finger at Syrian and Lebanese officials.

The report concluded that top Syrian and Lebanese officials planned the assassination beginning in mid-2004.

The highest point in Syria is Mount Hermon ( 2, 814 m ; 9, 232 ft ) on the Lebanese border.

The Lebanese Civil War would continue until 1990, at which point Syria had established complete dominance over Lebanon.

The same report defines the southwestern limit as a line roughly following the foot of the ridge and starting at just over a kilometer northwest of Banias, then running northwest to the international Lebanon-Syrian border's sharp turning point 3. 4 km east of Ghajar and 1. 0 km " south of the ( Lebanese ) village of El Majidiye.

Hadera is 50 miles ( 80 km ) south of the Lebanese border and marked the farthest point inside Israel hit by Hezbollah.

Many commentators consider the murder of Tony Frangieh to be one of the factors in the longevity of the Lebanese Civil War and as the starting point of a deep divide between Lebanese Christians.

Baskinta () is a Lebanese village situated at an altitude ranging from 1250 meters above sea level at its lowest point, to 1800 meters at Qanat Bakish.

However, the breaking point did not come until 1976 and the Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War on the side of rightist, Maronite-led elements against the nationalist bloc and its allies in the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The young man, knowing of Andrews ' new thinking on the situation in the country, asked him point blank what he felt about the fact that the economy of the country was controlled by Lebanese traders who had settled in Liberia after fleeing war in Lebanon.

Metula lies in the northernmost point of Israel ( although the municipal borders of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights exceed it ), next to the Lebanese border at 520 m above sea level.

Although Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, and their complete withdrawal was verified by the United Nations, Lebanon now considers the Shebaa farms — a 26-km² ( 10-mi² ) piece of land captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 war and considered by the UN to be disputed territory between Syria and Israel — to be Lebanese territory.

The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon, leaving more than 1500 dead civilians and still the Israeli army couldn't penetrate the Lebanese land borders and was driven back by Hezbollah suffering heavy casualties and defeated.

Documents from the 1920s and 1930s indicate that some local inhabitants regarded themselves as part of Lebanon, but after the French mandate ended in 1946, the land was administered by Syria, and represented as such in all maps of the time, including 1949 Armistice Agreement maps and Syrian and Lebanese military maps.

A Lebanese newspaper, however, described the land deed of one Shebaa resident as " handwritten and signed on a yellowing piece of paper in pencil and ink.

" Moreover, it is quite common for Lebanese to own land in Syria, and vice versa and it is also common for many people of a country to not know the name of one region.

The area also witnessed an increase in the price of land from an average of seven to nine Lebanese pounds per square meter between 1950 and 1960 to an average of 25 to 35 Lebanese pounds in 1965.

* 1991-He became defence attaché ( land, sea and air forces ) at the Lebanese Embassy in Paris.

The Lebanese government, which at the time was under French Mandate, partitioned the land in Achrafieh to build roads and highways, forcing these families to eventually sell large parts of their land.

The plan they came up with was to land from navy ships on the Lebanese coast and infiltrate into Lebanon disguised as tourists, with some of the commandos to be disguised as women ( Barak was disguised as a brunette woman ).

In regard to Hezbollah, the Siniora cabinet's official stance in the Pre-Doha Government was that " The government considers the resistance a natural and honest expression of the Lebanese people ’ s national rights to liberate their land and defend their honour against Israeli aggression and threats ".

Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with just as few veils across their bodies as in nightclubs.

The 1986 film The Delta Force starred Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of special forces troops tasked with retaking a plane hijacked by Lebanese terrorists.

Smaller businesses are privately owned by Beninese citizens, but some firms are foreign owned, primarily French and Lebanese.

A checkpoint manned by the Lebanon | Lebanese army and United States Marine Corps | US Marines, 1982.

The Lebanese Civil War ( 1975 – 1990 ) was characterized by multiple foreign interventions.

* Arabs ( i. e. Palestinians, followed by Moroccans, Syrians, Lebanese, Yemenis, Egyptians, Iraqis and Jordanians )

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

The aim of the operation was to eradicate the threat posed by Hezbollah and to force the civilian population north to Beirut so as to put pressure on the Lebanese Government to restrain Hezbollah.

Over 100 Lebanese refugees were killed by the shelling of a UN base at Qana, in what the Israeli military said was a mistake.

In July 2012, a Lebanese man was detained by Cyprus police on possible charges relating to terrorism laws for planning attacks against Israeli tourists.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

* 1982 – Iranian diplomats kidnapping ( 1982 ): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.

* 2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets ' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.

Before the Lebanese Civil War ( 1975 – 1990 ), the country experienced a period of relative calm and prosperity, driven by tourism, agriculture, and banking.

After gradual decline of its strength, Phoenician city states on the Lebanese coast were conquered outright by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy, though many of Phoenician colonies continued their independent existence-most notably Carthage.

He won the confidence of the Ottomans by fighting on their side at Marj Dabaq and, apparently pleased with the behavior of the Lebanese amirs, introduced them to Salim I when he entered Damascus.

Salim I, moved by the eloquence of the Lebanese ruler Amir Fakhr ad Din I ( 1516 – 44 ), decided to grant the Lebanese amirs a semiautonomous status.

Impressed by the victory of the Lebanese ruler, the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul gave him the title of Sultan al Barr ( Sultan of Land ).

Israel defended its actions by informing the Lebanese government that it was responsible for encouraging the PFLP.