Cika wannan jumla:
Tawayen Palasdinawa a Kudancin Labanon ya kai kololuwa a farkon shekarun 1970, yayin da aka yi amfani da Labanon a matsayin tushe don kaddamar da hare-hare a arewacin Isra'ila da kamfen din satar jirgin sama a duk duniya, wanda ya jawo martani na Isra'ila. A lokacin yakin basasar Lebanon, mayakan Falasdinawa sun ci gaba da kai hare-hare kan Isra'ila yayin da suke yaƙi da abokan hamayya a cikin Lebanon. A shekara ta 1978, kisan gillar da aka yi a kan hanyar Coastal Road ya haifar da mamayewar Isra'ila da aka sani da Operation Litani. Sojojin Isra'ila, duk da haka, da sauri suka janye daga Lebanon, kuma hare-haren da aka kai wa Isra'ila ya ci gaba. A shekarar 1982, bayan yunkurin kisan gilla da Falasdinawa suka yi wa daya daga cikin jami'an diflomasiyyarta, gwamnatin Isra'ila ta yanke shawarar shiga bangaren yakin basasar Lebanon kuma an fara yakin Lebanon na 1982. Isra'ila ta yi nasara da farko. Yawancin mayakan Falasdinawa sun ci nasara a cikin makonni da yawa, an kama Beirut, kuma an kwashe hedkwatar PLO zuwa Tunisia a watan Yuni ta hanyar shawarar Yasser Arafat. Koyaya, sa hannun Isra'ila a cikin yakin basasa ya kuma haifar da sakamakon da ba a zata ba, gami da ƙaramin rikici tsakanin Isra'ila da Siriya. A shekarar 1985, Isra'ila ta janye zuwa kilomita 10 da ke zaune a kudancin Lebanon, yayin da rikici mai rauni tare da mayakan Shia ya karu.