Operation Grapes of Wrath

Operation Grapes of Wrath
	Part of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict and the South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
	; Fighting near a UN post
Date	11–27 April 1996
Location	Lebanon, northern Israel
Result	Ceasefire on civilian targets; much Lebanese infrastructure destroyed.
Belligerents
Israel; SLA	Hezbollah; Syria
Commanders and leaders
Shimon Peres; Amnon Lipkin-Shahak	Hassan Nasrallah; Mustafa Tlass
Casualties and losses
No casualties	13 Hezbollah fighters killed
	62 Israeli civilians wounded; 20,000–30,000 Israeli civilians displaced; 149 – 250 Lebanese civilians killed; 354 Lebanese civilians wounded; 350,000–500,000 Lebanese civilians displaced

Operation Grapes of Wrath (Hebrew: מבצע ענבי זעם Mivtsa Enavi Zaam), known in Lebanon as the April Aggression (Arabic: عدوان نيسان, romanized: ʿUdwān Nīsān), was a seventeen-day campaign of the Israeli Defense Forces against Hezbollah in 1996 which attempted to end rocket attacks on Northern Israel by the organisation. Israel conducted more than 1,100 air raids and extensive shelling (some 25,000 shells). A UNIFIL compound at Qana was hit when Israeli artillery fired on Hezbollah forces operating nearby. 639 Hezbollah cross-border rocket attacks targeted northern Israel, particularly the town of Kiryat Shemona. Hezbollah forces also participated in numerous engagements with Israeli and South Lebanon Army forces. The conflict was de-escalated on 27 April by a ceasefire agreement banning attacks on civilians.

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