Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Israel Current Events

I looked around on the internet and found this webpage : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict
This webpage is about the Lebanon War in 2006. The war stated on July 12th of 2006, and formally ended on September 8th of 2006. It was a 33-day military conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel. The conflict began when Hezbollah soldiers fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence. Of the seven Israeli soldiers in the two jeeps, two were wounded, three were killed, and two were captured and taken to Lebanon. Five more were killed in a failed Israeli rescue attempt. Then Israel fight back with abundant of airstrikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon and damaged Lebanese civilian infrastructure. Hezbollah then launched more rockets into northern Israel and engaged the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in guerrilla warfare from hardened positions. There are a thousand and more people died in Lebanon War, and most of them were Lebanese civilians. Moreover, there was a severely damage of Lebanese infrastructure, and displaced 974,184 Lebanese and 300,000-500,000 Israelis. After the ceasefire, some parts of Southern Lebanon remained uninhabitable due to unexploded cluster bomblets. On 11 August 2006, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved UN Resolution 1701 in an effort to end the hostilities. The resolution was approved by both Lebanese and Israeli governments the following days, called for disarmament of Hezbollah. It was for withdrawal of Israel from Lebanon, and for the deployment of Lebanese soldiers and an enlarged United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) force in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese army began deploying in southern Lebanon on 17 August 2006. The blockade was lifted on 8 September 2006. On 1 October 2006, most Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon, though the last of the troops continued to occupy the border-straddling village of Ghajar. In the time since the enactment of UNSCR 1701 both the Lebanese government and UNIFIL have stated that they will not disarm Hezbollah.

I think that we must stop wars, because it could kill many people, break many families, waste a lot of resources, contaminate the Earth and even a lot more problems......etc. Furthermore, the science is developed forward a lot, and the nuclear weapons would make a lot more damage and contamination in the world. Therefore, I think we should stop the wars and live peaceful. Not only for our own selves, but also for everyone in the world.

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