4.6.82

Israeli Air force bombs West Beirut and the South in retaliation for attempted assassination of Israeli ambassador in London.

5.6.82

PLO-IDF artillery battles in border area. Continued bombardments.

UN Security Council Resolution 508.

6.6.82

‘Operation Peace for Galilee’ begins. Claimed objective: to push Palestinian forces to a 40km distance from Israeli Lebanese border. IDF pushes on three axes into South Lebanon through UNIFIL-controlled territory.

UN SC Resolution 509 Lebanese Govt. seeks Arab Summit Conference to confront Israeli invasion.

7.6.82

IDF enters and captures Tyre, Nabatiyeh, Hasbaiya. 40km line in many places passed. Streetfighting in Sidon. Air-raids on Damour, Naame, West Beirut.

US special envoy Philip Habib starts mission. Begin ‘gives’ Chateau Beaufort to Saad Haddad. Israeli spokesman in Washington says war-aim is complete destruction of PLO influence in Lebanon.

8.6.82

Sidon captured. IDF occupies Chouf province (Druze stronghold).

US vetoes SC Resolution demanding immediate and unconditional retreat of IDF from Lebanon.

9.6.82

Syrian SAM-6 missile sites in Beka’a destroyed by IDF airforce. IDF tanks 10km south of Beirut.

EEC condemns Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

10.6.82

Air-raids on Southern Beirut (UNESCO, Bir Hassan, Corniche Mazra); failure to land airborne units in Beirut Airport. Syrian-IDJ fighting in Beka’a.

Habib meets President Assad in Damascus.

11.6.82

IDF strike (air, sea, land) South Beirut and airport. Bridgehead at Khald