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2007 Lebanon conflict
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The 2007 Lebanon conflict began when fighting broke out between Fatah al-Islam, an Islamist militant organization, and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) on May 20, 2007 in Nahr al-Bared, a UNRWA Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli.
This article is about the conflict in Lebanon in 2007. For the conflict in 2008, see 2008 Lebanon conflict. For the war in 2006, see 2006 Lebanon war.
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2007 Lebanon conflict | |||||||
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Part of the War on terror[1][2][3] | |||||||
![]() The shelling of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
4,000 troops |
450 Fatah militants, 50 Jund militants | ||||||
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Northern casualties: 168–179 killed,[4][5] 400–500 wounded[6] Southern casualties: 2 killed, 6 wounded |
Fatah al-Islam casualties: 226 killed, 215 captured[5] Jund al-Sham casualties: 5 killed Bomber cells: 7 killed, 18 captured | ||||||
Civilian casualties: 2 killed UNIFIL: 6 soldiers killed, 2 wounded |
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It was the most severe internal fighting since Lebanon's 1975–90 civil war. The conflict revolved mostly around the siege of Nahr el-Bared, in addition to clashes that occurred in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon and other bombings that took place in and around the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Fighting ended in September 2007.