July 13 - Israeli aircraft bomb runways at Beirut airport. Israel's navy blockades Lebanese ports.
July 14 - Israeli warplanes blast the main Beirut-Damascus highway, tightening an air, sea and land blockade of Lebanon.
July 15 - Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora demands an immediate U.N.-backed ceasefire, denouncing Israel for turning his country into a "disaster zone". He appeals for foreign aid.
July 16 - Rockets fired by Hizbollah kill eight in the Israeli city of Haifa. Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warns Lebanon of "far-reaching consequences" after the attack.
-- Group of Eight leaders at their annual summit blame an upsurge in violence on "extremists" and while accepting Israel's right to self-defence say Israel must exercise restraint. July 17 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan call for the deployment of a security force in Lebanon. July 19 - Israeli troops cross the border to raid Hizbollah posts. Annan calls for an immediate end to hostilities. July 22 - Israel ousts Hizbollah guerrillas from the hilltop village of Maroun al-Ras, a stronghold just inside Lebanon. July 23 - U.N. emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland says Israeli bombing of a Beirut neighbourhood where Hizbollah had its headquarters has breached humanitarian law. He says rockets going into Israel have to stop. July 24 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flies to Lebanon from Cyprus and meets Siniora. July 25 - Olmert meets Rice to discuss war in Lebanon. -- Israeli air strike kills four unarmed U.N. observers. July 26 - Hizbollah kills nine Israeli soldiers advancing on the town of Bint Jbeil near the frontier. -- An international conference in Rome papers over cracks by pledging to work for an urgent, but not immediate, ceasefire and agreeing on the need for an international peacekeeping force. July 29 - Rice holds talks in Israel to seek a deal on an international force to end fighting. July 30 - Lebanon says at least 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children are killed by an Israeli air strike in the village of Qana. Lebanon cancels Rice visit. -- Rice wins a 48-hour halt to aerial attacks from Israel. July 31 - Rice ends her peace mission in Israel. Aug 1 - Israel's security cabinet approves an expansion of its military operations. Aug 2 - Israeli commandos snatch five suspected Hizbollah members from the ancient Lebanese city of Baalbek, 100 km (60 miles) from Israel. -- Following expiry of a 48-hour bombing pause, Olmert says Israel will keep fighting Hizbollah until a strong international force is deployed. -- Hizbollah fires 231 rockets into Israel, the highest number so far in one day, killing one and wounding 124. Aug 3 - Siniora says Israeli offensive has killed 900, wounded 3,000 in the 23-day old war. -- Hizbollah fires at least 130 rockets into Israel, killing eight people. -- Israel makes two fresh forays into Lebanon and now holds seven positions. Aug 4 - Israeli air strike hits farm close to Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley where workers were loading fruit on to trucks. Officials say 33 people were killed and 20 wounded. -- Several Hizbollah rockets land in or near the Israeli city of Hadera, about 80 km (50 miles) from the Lebanese border -- the deepest rocket attack of war so far. -- The United States and France inch closer to a deal on a U.N. resolution calling for an end to the fighting. Aug 5 - Helicopter-borne Israeli commandos attack Hizbollah guerrillas near Tyre; Israeli army says eight Israeli naval commandos wounded in the raid; seven Lebanese reported dead. -- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch meets Lebanese leaders on a possible deal to end the war. -- The U.S. and France reach agreement on a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to fighting in Lebanon as a first step toward a political settlement of the conflict. Aug 6 - Israeli minister says Israel will keep hitting Hizbollah targets, soldiers will stay in Lebanon until an international force takes over. -- Lebanon says the text falls short of what it wants to halt the war that has killed more than 800 people, mostly Lebanese civilians. -- Israel views favourably the draft U.N. resolution, a senior government official and Israeli media say. -- U.N. Security Council envoys attempt to put finishing touches on the Franco-American resolution.-- Ten Israeli soldiers killed and at least 9 others wounded in a Hizbollah rocket strike on reservists in northern Israel.
Source: Reuters
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