Lebanon resistance carried out 800 military operations in 1997

The operations undertaken by the Lebanese resistance in 1997 numbered 812. The operations targeted Israeli and Southern Lebanon Army positions and patrols. Due to the attacks, 39 Israelis were killed, 95 injured and 22 SLA fighters were killed, 70 injured. Losses among the resistance numbered 66 killed and 27 injured.

Statistics from the Lebanese resistance showed that Israeli shelling of inhabitant regions caused the death of 48 Lebanese civilians and injured another 130. Six Lebanese soldiers were killed and 10 were injured.

Security sources said that 5 soldiers affiliated with the international forces, 4 Italian and 1 Irish, were killed in an air crash, while 6 Irish were injured in a mine explosion while passing with their cars on El-Torabiah road, which links their position in Yed Esheit with the city of Beit Yahoun.