El Bas

Geiger's paratroop battalion takes a wrong turn and runs into a Palestinian refugee camp. Israeli command was reluctant to use air strikes in populated areas and Geiger was forced to extricate himself from the mess.

1982-06-06

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Geiger's paratroop battalion takes a wrong turn and runs into a Palestinian refugee camp. Israeli command was reluctant to use air strikes in populated areas and Geiger was forced to extricate himself from the mess.

El Bas, Lebanon

The 1982 Lebanon War, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israeli government, later known in Israel as the Lebanon War or the First Lebanon War, and known in Lebanon as "the invasion", began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invaded southern Lebanon, after repeated attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the IDF that had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border. The military operation was launched after gunmen from Abu Nidal's organization attempted to assassinate Shlomo Argov, Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin blamed Abu Nidal's enemy, the PLO, for the incident, and used the incident as a casus belli for the invasion.

Wikipedia: 1982 Lebabon War

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