Meidoun (ميدون) is a village in the
West Beqaa District in southern
Lebanon
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. Following the
1982 invasion it was just north of the Israeli
security zone.
Modern history
On 4 May 1988 the Israeli
army
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launched a 48-hour
offensive
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against Meidoun in an operation known as Operation
Law and Order.
UNIFIL
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estimated that the invading force involved 1,500 soldiers with a dozen tanks, armoured vehicles and
Cobra helicopters and that the village was bombarded overnight with over 1000 shells. After several hours of fighting the army blew up the fifty houses that the village consisted of. Over the following days the
South Lebanon Army
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used bulldozers to demolish the ruins. After the raid Israeli statements claimed 40-50 Hezbollah fighters had been killed. Three Israeli soldiers were killed and seventeen wounded. One of the Israeli fatalities was a result of
Lebanese Army
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artillery fire. According to the claim of Hezbollah organization, at that time the captured Israeli navigator Ron Arad was in the village of Nabi Shit in the Lebanon Valley, and on the night of the operation he was killed.
In October 2024 the IDF struck Meidoun as part of the
Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when List of projectile attacks from Lebanon on Israel and the Golan Heights, Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions ...
.
References
External links
Maydoun - Loussia localiban
{{Western Beqaa District
Populated places in Western Beqaa District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon