Editing Improvised explosive device (section)

===Lebanon===
The [[Lebanese National Resistance Front]], the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]], other resistance groups in Lebanon, and later [[Hezbollah]], made extensive use of IEDs to resist Israeli forces after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Israel withdrew from Beirut, Northern Lebanon, and Mount Lebanon in 1985, whilst maintaining its occupation of Southern Lebanon. Hezbollah frequently used IEDs to attack Israeli military forces in this area up until the Israeli withdrawal, and the end of the invasion of Lebanon in May 2000.{{according to whom?|date=October 2024}}

One such bomb killed Israeli [[Brigadier General]] Erez Gerstein<ref>{{cite book|title=The Essence of Longing: General Erez Gerstein and the War in Lebanon|publisher=Miskal&nbsp;– Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books|date=May 2007|first=Ehud|last=Eiran|language=he}}</ref> on 28 February 1999, the highest-ranking Israeli to die in Lebanon since [[Yekutiel Adam]]'s death in 1982.{{according to whom?|date=October 2024}}

Also in the [[2006 Lebanon War|2006 War in Lebanon]], a [[Merkava]] Mark II [[tank]] was hit by a pre-positioned [[Hezbollah]] IED, killing all 4 [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] servicemen on board,<ref>{{cite journal  | last = Arkin  | first = William M.  | author-link = William Arkin  | title = Divine Victory for Whom? Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War  | journal = Strategic Studies Quarterly  | volume = Winter 2007  | page = 9  | publisher = [[United States Air Force]] [[Air Education and Training Command]] [[Air University (United States)|Air University]]  | location = [[Maxwell Air Force Base]], [[Alabama]]  | date = August 2007  | url = http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/ssq/2007/Winter/arkin.pdf  | access-date = 3 December 2008 }}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} </ref> the first of two IEDs to damage a Merkava tank.{{according to whom?|date=October 2024}}