Event

2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid

7 Oct 2000 · 33.33° N, 35.74° E

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When
7 Oct 2000
Kind
Event
Coordinates
33.33° N, 35.74° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid.

Summary

2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid: Three Israeli soldiers are abducted by Hezbollah while patrolling the Israeli administered side of the Israeli-Lebanese border and Northern Israel is shelled in an attempt to ignite the Israeli-Lebanese border too, but Israelis decide on limited response.

2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid

2000 capture and killing of Israeli border troops by Lebanese militants

The 2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid occurred at the boundary between Lebanon and the Golan Heights on October 7. Hezbollah militants captured three Israeli soldiers while they were patrolling the security fence, and subsequently took them into Lebanon. While the time and circumstances of the three soldiers' deaths remain unknown, their bodies were returned to Israel in a prisoner exchange on 29 January 2004.

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