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162 ai r p o w e r in 20 t H Ce n t u ry do C t r i n e s a n d em p l o y m e n t - nat i o n a l ex p e r i e n C e s army against the Israeli ground forces, the road to all out conflict was short. The IAF attacked and destroyed the missile system in the Beka’a Valley in a fast concentrated operation. The Syrian air force intervened in order to defend its ground forces, and in three days of air-to-air battles, the Syrians lost approximately 90 aircrafts, with no losses to the IAF. 9 more Syrian aircrafts were shot-down by anti-aircraft units, one of them was MiG25. The war ended with a total defeat of the Syrian army and the PLO while the IDF controlled half of the country including the capital Beirut. Throughout the war, the fighting was limited to Lebanon alone, while the Golan Heights, which formed a direct border between Israel and Syria, remained totally silent. b. “The Second Lebanon War” (2006) The result of the First Lebanon War (1982) was the removal of the PLO with there leader Yasser Arafat from Lebanon, leading to the rise of a new terror force – The destruction of the Iraqi nuclear reactor that had been hit by the IAF in 1981.
tH e mi l i ta ry do C t r i n e o f t H e is r a e l i air fo r C e 163 Hezbollah. This time made up of Lebanese Shiite Moslems supported by Syria and Iran who supplied the organization with modern ground-to-ground missiles, Katyusha rockets and other armaments. Once again, Israel found itself fighting a terrorist organization on its northern border. Despite these attacks, Israel refrained from another all out campaign, limiting itself to counter attacks mainly through use of the air force. This situation lasted for many years with the Hezbollah growing stronger and being supplied with both medium and long-range missiles by Iran and Syria, and the Lebanese authorities being helpless against it. In the year of 2006, in an attack on an Israeli patrol on the border, the Hezbollah killed 8 soldiers and kidnapped two others. This time Israel decided to react with force against the terrorists. The IAF opened a massive attack on the long range missiles that were in the center and north of Lebanon and destroyed them in the first wave. The terrorists retaliated with a massive barrage of missiles on the north of Israel causing extensive damage and loss of life. Dozens of houses and factories were damaged and the population was forced to remain in shelters. The IAF attacked the Hezbollah and Shiite Center in Beirut with full force and totally destroyed it. The war ended with the intervention of the UN. An agreement was reached in which the Hezbollah would no longer have bases on the Israeli border with a UN force being stationed in south Lebanon to ensure its implementation. Up to this day (2010), the northern border has remained quiet. The Gaza War 2008 “Oferet Yetsuka Operation” (Cast Lead) The south of the country was also not quiet considering that the terror organizations were active in the overcrowded refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. After Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Strip in August 2005, the extremist group Hamas gained control and vowed to continue the fight against Israel. When Israel built fences that prevented infiltration from the Strip, the Hamas group started to fire home made rockets against the civilian Israeli population of the towns and settlements around the Strip. This situation lasted for eight years, in which time thousands of rockets and mortars were fired from the strip, and although the loss of life and damage to property was not very serious, it resulted in trauma to all the civilian population in the south area of the country. The political decision not to attack the Gaza Strip was seen by Hamas as a sign of weakness and fear on the part of Israel. The mortar and missile fire from the Strip, escalated in the absence of any reaction from Israel, until eventually, there was no choice other than to put a stop to it once and for all. At the end of December 2008 the IDF was activated against Hamas, the Israeli Army and the IAF attacked and destroyed numerous Hamas targets, and the result was that from that time on the border with Gaza is relatively quiet (2010).
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