- 1. Who was the Israel Chief-of-Staff who stated an objective of the war was taking terrorists alive?
A) Alon Friedman
B) Dan Halutz
C) Emmanuel Moreno
D) Benjamin Netanyahu
- 2. Where did the IDF announce the capture of the first two Hezbollah fighters on 24 July?
A) Maroun al-Ras
B) Bint Jbeil
C) Baalbek
D) Rajamin
- 3. What happened to the five Lebanese citizens captured in the 1 August raid on Baalbek?
A) They were killed in captivity
B) They were traded for Israeli soldiers
C) They were released three weeks later
D) They were held until 2008
- 4. How many Hezbollah fighters did Israel claim to capture on August 3 in Rajamin?
A) Twelve
B) Five
C) Zero
D) Two
- 5. What were the Hezbollah fighters doing when captured in the Bint Jbeil area on 8 August?
A) Sleeping
B) Guarding a bunker
C) Driving a vehicle
D) Firing rockets
- 6. Which officer died during the second raid on Baalbek?
A) Dan Halutz
B) Alon Friedman
C) None of the above
D) Emmanuel Moreno
- 7. How many Hezbollah fighters did Israel hold as prisoners at the end of the war?
A) Twelve
B) Zero
C) Five
D) Four
- 8. When were the Hezbollah prisoners released by Israel?
A) 2009
B) 2008
C) 2006
D) 2007
- 9. How many bodies of dead Hezbollah fighters did Israel seize and bring to Israel?
A) Forty-three
B) Twelve
C) Four
D) Five
- 10. How many Lebanese soldiers and policemen were killed during the conflict?
A) 46
B) 44
C) 43
D) 33
- 11. How many Israeli civilians were killed by Hezbollah rockets and mortars during the conflict?
A) 44
B) 43
C) 46
D) 4,262
- 12. How many Israeli Arabs were among the 46 Israeli civilians killed by Hezbollah?
A) 44
B) 33
C) At least 19
D) 4
- 13. What was the total number of Israeli civilians injured according to the text?
A) 350,000
B) 1,388
C) 4,262
D) 46
- 14. How many people were evacuated in northern Israel during the conflict?
A) 4,262
B) 19
C) 46
D) More than 350,000
- 15. Who did the Israeli government hold responsible for the Hezbollah attacks?
A) The United Nations
B) The Lebanese government
C) The Syrian government
D) The Iranian government
- 16. Which UN resolution did Israel claim Lebanon failed to implement?
A) Resolution 242
B) Resolution 1559
C) Resolution 338
D) Resolution 1701
- 17. What did Lebanese President Emile Lahoud credit Hezbollah for doing?
A) Ending Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon
B) Securing border treaties with Israel
C) Building national infrastructure
D) Overthrowing the Lebanese government
- 18. Who was the Lebanese ambassador to the US interviewed by PBS on 12 July 2006?
A) Farid Abboud
B) Fouad Siniora
C) Emile Lahoud
D) Elias Murr
- 19. Did Israel declare war on Lebanon?
A) Yes, on 12 July
B) Yes, but only verbally
C) No
D) Yes, after the Qana attack
- 20. Who did Prime Minister Fouad Siniora call upon to exert effort to stop Israel's attacks?
A) The United Nations
B) The French President
C) George W. Bush
D) The Syrian President
- 21. What percentage of poll respondents supported Hezbollah's fight against Israel two weeks into the conflict?
A) 95%
B) 50%
C) 8%
D) 87%
- 22. Which US official did Prime Minister Siniora snub after the attack on Qana?
A) George W. Bush
B) Hillary Clinton
C) Condoleezza Rice
D) Colin Powell
- 23. What was the primary role of the Lebanese Armed Forces during the war?
A) Disarmed Hezbollah forces
B) Launched a full-scale invasion of Israel
C) Mostly stayed out of the fighting
D) Conquered southern Israel
- 24. What action did the Lebanese Army take toward Israeli aircraft?
A) Fired anti-aircraft weapons
B) Ignored them entirely
C) Provided air support to Hezbollah
D) Successfully shot down all of them
- 25. According to a Time editorial, why did the Lebanese Army not stand up to Israeli armored columns?
A) They lacked modern weapons
B) They did not have enough fuel
C) It would have been suicidal
D) They were ordered to help Israel
- 26. In June 2005, what kind of unit engaged three Lebanese individuals near the Shebaa Farms?
A) United Nations peacekeeping force
B) Israeli naval commandos
C) Hezbollah infantry
D) IDF paratroop unit
- 27. On 21 November 2005, where did Hezbollah attempt to attack an Israeli outpost?
A) Shlomi
B) Ghajar
C) Zar'it
D) Shebaa Farms
- 28. Who was the Israeli sniper involved in the 21 November 2005 incident?
A) David Markovich
B) Ehud Goldwasser
C) Eldad Regev
D) Hassan Nasrallah
- 29. How did the three Hezbollah militants die during the 21 November 2005 attack?
A) They were killed in a helicopter strike
B) They were shot by artillery fire
C) Their rocket-propelled grenade exploded after being shot
D) They stepped on a land mine
- 30. At what time did the Hezbollah cross-border raid occur on 12 July 2006?
A) Around 9 am
B) At sunset
C) At dawn
D) Around midnight
- 31. Which town was targeted by Hezbollah rocket attacks during the 12 July 2006 diversion?
A) Haifa
B) Tel Aviv
C) Shlomi
D) Beirut
- 32. How many Israeli soldiers were captured by Hezbollah on 12 July 2006?
A) Five
B) Two
C) Three
D) One
- 33. Who were the two Israeli soldiers captured on 12 July 2006?
A) Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev
B) Ali Faratan and Hassan Nasrallah
C) David Markovich and Samir Kuntar
D) Nasim Nisr and Yahya Skaf
- 34. How did the Hezbollah contingent infiltrate the border?
A) Via a paraglider
B) Through a dead zone in the fence
C) By climbing over the main gate
D) By using a tunnel
- 35. What was the name Hezbollah gave to the 12 July 2006 attack?
A) Operation Iron Fist
B) Operation Defensive Shield
C) Operation Peace for Galilee
D) Operation Truthful Promise
- 36. Which prisoner was captured by Israel in 1979 and convicted of murdering civilians?
A) Samir Kuntar
B) Ali Faratan
C) Yahya Skaf
D) Nasim Nisr
- 37. What was the charge against Nasim Nisr by the Israeli government?
A) Abduction
B) Spying
C) Rocket smuggling
D) Murder
- 38. What is the official Israeli position regarding Yahya Skaf?
A) He escaped to Syria
B) He is currently held in an Israeli prison
C) He was never captured
D) He was killed in action
- 39. According to Hassan Nasrallah, what was the only way to release the prisoners?
A) Paying a ransom
B) Indirect negotiations and a swap
C) International diplomatic intervention
D) A direct military assault
- 40. How many Israeli soldiers were killed by mortar fire while attempting to recover bodies?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Two
D) One
- 41. How long did the 2006 Lebanon War last?
A) 45 days
B) 34 days
C) 20 days
D) 60 days
- 42. When did the 2006 Lebanon War formally end?
A) 8 September 2006
B) 12 July 2006
C) 1 October 2006
D) 14 August 2006
- 43. What triggered the start of the conflict on 12 July 2006?
A) The collapse of the Lebanese government
B) An Israeli invasion of Beirut
C) A rocket strike on Tel Aviv
D) Hezbollah ambushed Israeli soldiers
- 44. Which international resolution was passed to end the hostilities?
A) UNSCR 1701
B) UNSCR 1244
C) UNSCR 1559
D) UNSCR 1700
- 45. What did Israel lift on 8 September 2006 to mark the formal end of the war?
A) Air blockade
B) Ground occupation
C) Economic sanctions
D) Naval blockade
- 46. What name is the war known by in Lebanon?
A) The Border War
B) Second Lebanon War
C) July War
D) The 34-Day Conflict
- 47. Which commission deemed the war a missed opportunity for Israel?
A) Lebanese Defense Committee
B) UN Commission
C) Winograd Commission
D) Israeli Security Council
- 48. When did the PLO begin cross-border attacks into Israel from southern Lebanon?
A) 1975
B) 2000
C) 1968
D) 1982
- 49. What event preceded the PLO's arrival and establishment of a base in southern Lebanon in 1971?
A) Lebanese Civil War
B) Six-Day War
C) Israeli invasion of 1978
D) Expulsion from Jordan
- 50. In what year did the Lebanese Civil War begin?
A) 1975
B) 1982
C) 1978
D) 1968
- 51. When did Israel first invade southern Lebanon to stem Palestinian attacks?
A) 1982
B) 1971
C) 2006
D) 1978
- 52. In what year did Hezbollah establish itself politically?
A) 1985
B) 1982
C) 1978
D) 2000
- 53. When did Israel withdraw to the UN-designated Blue Line border?
A) 2006
B) 2005
C) 1985
D) 2000
- 54. What territory, occupied by Israel from Syria in 1967, is considered by Hezbollah to be part of Lebanon?
A) The Golan Heights
B) Shebaa farms
C) The Blue Line
D) South Lebanon
- 55. When did Syrian forces withdraw from Lebanon?
A) 2006
B) 2000
C) 1990
D) 2005
- 56. According to Seymour Hersh's article in The New Yorker, who supposedly gave the green light for an Israeli attack on Hezbollah?
A) The Lebanese Government
B) The United Nations
C) The White House
D) The Winograd Committee
- 57. What facility in Beirut had its runways destroyed by an Israeli airstrike?
A) The main naval port
B) The national railway hub
C) The Lebanese Parliament building
D) Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport
- 58. How many combat missions did the Israeli Air Force fly during the war?
A) 6,052
B) 11,897
C) 11,223
D) 5,000
- 59. How many Katyusha launchers did the IDF shelling successfully destroy according to post-war investigations?
A) 5,000
B) 12,000
C) About 100
D) 1,200
- 60. How many kilometres of roads were reported as destroyed in Lebanon during the conflict?
A) 640 kilometres
B) 250 kilometres
C) 1,200 kilometres
D) 100 kilometres
- 61. What percentage of Hezbollah rockets were estimated to have hit cities and built-up areas?
A) 95%
B) 50%
C) 23%
D) 10%
- 62. What type of rocket comprised about 95% of the missiles fired by Hezbollah?
A) Grad
B) Katyusha
C) Ra'ad 1
D) Fajr-3
- 63. Which station warned Israeli residents of future rocket attacks in both Arabic and Hebrew?
A) Haaretz
B) IDF Radio
C) Lebanon News
D) Al-Manar
- 64. What was the maximum range of the Katyusha rockets used by Hezbollah?
A) 15 km
B) 30 km
C) 50 km
D) 100 km
- 65. On which date did a rocket attack kill twelve IDF reservists in Kfar Giladi?
A) 14 July
B) 12 August
C) 16 July
D) 6 August
- 66. According to the text, how many targets were on the alleged range card found outside Shihin?
A) 100
B) 91
C) 56
D) 27
- 67. What was the maximum warhead weight of the 122 mm Katyusha rockets?
A) 66 kg
B) 50 kg
C) 30 kg
D) 10 kg
- 68. Which country provided the Fajr-3 and Ra'ad 1 missiles mentioned in the report?
A) Russia
B) Iran
C) China
D) Syria
- 69. What reason did Hassan Nasrallah give for targeting Israeli cities?
A) To force a ceasefire
B) Lack of military targets
C) Accidental targeting
D) Israel bombed civilian targets
- 70. What kind of warfare did Hezbollah use against IDF ground forces?
A) Naval blockades
B) Guerrilla warfare
C) Conventional trench warfare
D) Aerial dogfights
- 71. What equipment did Hezbollah fighters use to see in the dark?
A) Flare guns
B) Infrared drones
C) Night-vision goggles
D) Searchlights
- 72. What was the origin of the anti-tank guided missiles used by Hezbollah?
A) Russian-made
B) North Korean-made
C) Iranian-made
D) Chinese-made
- 73. How many Merkava main battle tanks were damaged in total during the war?
A) 22
B) 52
C) 45
D) 5
- 74. What weapon was responsible for destroying one of the five destroyed Merkava tanks?
A) Aerial bombardment
B) Sniper fire
C) Mortar fire
D) Improvised explosive device
- 75. How did Hezbollah cause casualties to Israeli troops sheltering inside buildings?
A) By using ATGMs to collapse the buildings
B) By flooding the basements
C) By using human shields
D) By deploying poison gas
- 76. What tactic did Hezbollah use to move quickly and conduct surprise attacks?
A) Tunnels
B) High-speed boats
C) Armored transports
D) Parachutes
- 77. Which specific Merkava tank model did the IDF express satisfaction with regarding its performance?
A) Mark I
B) Mark II
C) Mark III
D) Mark IV
- 78. What percentage of Israeli cluster munitions were fired in the final 72 hours of the war?
A) 10%
B) 50%
C) 90%
D) 25%
- 79. Where did Israel source some of its older cluster bombs used in the conflict?
A) Domestically produced 1970s stocks
B) Captured enemy supplies
C) Aging American stockpiles
D) European surplus warehouses
- 80. How many people have been killed or maimed by unexploded cluster munitions since the war ended?
A) Almost 200
B) Exactly 50
C) Less than 10
D) Over 1,000
- 81. What type of rockets did Hezbollah use to fire submunitions?
A) Israeli produced cluster missiles
B) Soviet era Katushya rockets
C) American made 155 mm artillery
D) Chinese made Type-81 122 mm rockets
- 82. What primary purpose were phosphorus shells originally designed for?
A) Clearing minefields
B) Illuminating the battlefield
C) Generating a smoke screen
D) Destroying armored vehicles
- 83. How many separate strikes did Israel conduct using cluster munitions?
A) 72
B) 113
C) 4,407
D) 962
- 84. In what year were the munitions still being cleared by volunteers?
A) 2015
B) 2008
C) 2006
D) 2011
- 85. Which organization labeled Israel's use of cluster munitions as indiscriminate and disproportionate?
A) Human Rights Watch
B) Amnesty International
C) The United Nations
D) Red Cross
- 86. How many Lebanese soldiers and police officers were included in the 1,123 death toll cited by the Lebanese top police office?
A) 894
B) 192
C) 1,191
D) 37
- 87. Approximately how many people were killed by cluster bombs between the end of the war and November 2008?
A) 270
B) 15
C) 40
D) 100
- 88. How many Hezbollah fighters were officially acknowledged as dead by the party in an Associated Press tally?
A) 500
B) 250
C) 184
D) 70
- 89. What was Hezbollah's official estimate of its own fighter losses as presented by Mahmoud Qomati?
A) 70
B) 250
C) 650
D) 500
- 90. How many Lebanese fatalities did Human Rights Watch document in total?
A) 1191
B) 1035
C) 1123
D) 1109
- 91. What was the estimate of Hezbollah fighter deaths provided by the Israeli Military Intelligence (AMAN) in November 2006?
A) 800
B) 500
C) 650
D) 440
- 92. How many fighters did the Amal movement lose in the 2006 Lebanon War?
A) 2
B) 70
C) 17
D) 12
- 93. According to the Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry summary, how many Hezbollah fighters were killed?
A) Less than 250
B) Over 600
C) Over 800
D) Exactly 500
- 94. Which senior Hezbollah member was falsely reported as killed in the bunker attack?
A) Nabil Qaouk
B) Khalid Bazzi
C) Imad Mughniya
D) Hassan Nasrallah
- 95. Who was the regional commander of the central sector that the IDF claimed to have killed in Maroun ar-Ras?
A) Muhammad Qanso
B) Rani Adnan Bazzi
C) Abu Jaafar
D) Muhammad Sorour
- 96. Who was identified by the IDF as a logistical coordinator whose identity could not be confirmed after the war?
A) Muhammad Sorour
B) Khalid Bazzi
C) Jihad Attiya
D) Nour Shalhoub
- 97. Khalid Bazzi was known by what pseudonym?
A) al-Hajj Qasim
B) Jihad al-'Amili
C) Bilal
D) Sajid ad-Duwayr
- 98. What was Muhammad Sorour's role within Hezbollah?
A) Logistics officer
B) Arms transporter
C) Operations officer
D) Special Force commander
- 99. Which Hezbollah commander was the only one correctly identified by the IDF during the war?
A) Ali Mahmoud Salih
B) Khalid Bazzi
C) Muhammad Sorour
D) Muhammad Qanso
- 100. What was the result of the raid on the building in Tyre in early August, according to the IDF four years later?
A) The target was killed
B) The target had escaped
C) The target was captured
D) The target was never there
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