During the 2006 Lebanon War, Operation Sharp and Smooth (Hebrew: מבצע חד וחלק), also known as the Baalbek operation, was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raid on hospital in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley which was also a Hezbollah headquarter. According to inquiries by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Lebanese authorities 16 Lebanese residents, most of them civilians, were killed. HRW acknowledged that some of the civilians killed in the operation were "collateral casualties to a legitimate Israeli military strike." According to IDF ten Hezbollah militants, armed and wearing bulletproof vests, were killed in the attack. Five Lebanese civilians believed by Israel to be connected to Hezbollah were abducted to Israel but released after three weeks.
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