In July 2006, a Hezbollah artillery assault on Israel's northern border communities and a
cross-border abduction of two Israeli soldiers precipitated the month-long
Second Lebanon War, including an Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The war wound down in August 2006 after the passage of
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701; Israeli forces mostly withdrew from Lebanon by October 2006 but continued to occupy the Lebanese portion of
Ghajar village.
