Reportedly when Israel took back the west bank in 1967 Palestinian fighters moved their bases to Jordan. During the Jordanian occupation, Palestinians were said to have made up part of a government of east and west bank. Reported battles with Israel resulted in the support of Arabs, said to be for recruitment and financial aid. Acting independently of Jordan possibly brought conflict between the plo and the Jordanian armed forces. According to a report Jordan allowed Palestinians to leave for Lebanon via Syria.
The plo were said to be opposed to the Lebanese government. According to a report the Lebanese civil war was a conflict between sunni and shia muslims, and christians who were the majority in government. Reportedly Israel entered Lebanon in 1982 following several exchanges with the plo, and fought alongside a christian dominated army. They were said to have forcibly deported the plo in 1983. An outcome of the war was the Taif agreement and a balanced power share of christians and muslims. Israel withdrew in 2000. Reportedly, in 2005 Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri was killed by a bomb attack, dna evidence suggested it may have been the work of a young male suicide bomber. Syria withdrew from Lebanon the same year.
Reportedly a cross border raid by hezbolla in 2006 began an Israeli-Hezbolla conflict in Lebanon, Israel and the Golan heights. According to reports it resulted in the deaths of up to 1,300 Lebanese and 165 Israelis, and severely damaged civil infrastructure resulting in around a million Lebanese and 300-500,000 Israelis being displaced.
Hezbolla was said to have emerged from shia clerics in a model set out by Ayatolla Khomeini following the Iranian revolution. Reportedly sunnis disagree with the agenda. Said to be pro nationalism, hezbolla supports shia minorities, is active in Samaria, has seats in the Lebanese government and is said to be part of the united Iraqi coalition.
Palestinians living in southern Lebanon are said to be strictly controlled by hezbolla. Reportedly rocket attacks on 5 August were the fourth of a series targeting Israel over three months, resulting in Israeli airstrikes, the first against Lebanon since 2006. Hezbolla have admitted responsibility for the latest attack.
Hezbolla reportedly supported the Syrian government during the war in Syria, said to have begun as part of a broader arab uprising in 2011. In 2014, according to a report the cia estimated there were 20,000-31,500 members of isis in Iraq and Syria. Christians were being persecuted. Reportedly, in 2015 the uk house of commons approved a bombing campaign against Syria. According to a Whitehouse report, defeated rebel groups were being retrained by u.s. forces. The war was said to have resulted in over half the Syrian population seeking asylum, an estimated 6.8 million people.