2007 Lebanon conflict

Date	20 May – 7 September 2007
Location	Fighting: Nahr al-Bared, Tripoli, Ain al-Hilweh Bombings: Beirut, Aley, Zouk Mosbeh Attack on UNIFIL: Khiam
Result	Lebanese victory

Belligerents

Lebanese Armed Forces

Fatah al-Islam

Jund al-Sham

Commanders and leaders

Abu Youssef Sharqieh (POW)

Abu Hureira (K.I.A)

Strength

4,000 troops

450 Fatah militants,
50 Jund militants

Casualties and losses

Northern casualties:
168–179 killed,
400–500 wounded
Southern casualties:
2 killed, 6 wounded

Fatah al-Islam casualties:
226 killed, 215 captured
Jund al-Sham casualties:
5 killed
Bomber cells: 7 killed, 18 captured

Civilian casualties:
53 killed in the fighting,
12 killed in the bombings

International Red Cross:
2 killed
UNIFIL:
6 soldiers killed, 2 wounded

2007 Lebanon conflict

Timeline
Combatants Fatah al-Islam Jund al-Sham Lebanese Armed Forces
Locations Tripoli Nahr al-Bared Ain al-Hilweh
Related topics Bikfaya bombings
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Civilian casualties:
53 killed in the fighting,
12 killed in the bombings

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, an UNRWA Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli.

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, but minor clashes also occurred in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon and several terrorist bombings took place in and around Lebanon's capital, Beirut. Fighting ended in September 2007.

Lebanon is home to more than 400,000 Palestinian refugees, some 215,000 of whom live in camps, including the descendants of those who fled from Palestine during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1962, Palestinians were categorized as foreigners in Lebanon, regardless of how long they had lived there. Non-Lebanese, which included the refugees, were restricted from working in over 70 skilled professions until 2005, when new legislation officially opened 50 such jobs to them. The civil war left Lebanon's government and the general Lebanese populace deeply suspicious of Palestinian refugees because of their involvement in the Lebanese war. Yet, under a 1969 Arab accord, later annulled by the Lebanese Parliament in the mid-1980s but maintained in principle, the government has been reluctant to enter the camps. The current residents of the camps are currently denied access to their homeland or neighboring Arab nations.

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