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