Security Council Crisis 1999
Introductory Speaker

Saturday, 6 February
• At 0700/1500 this morning, Hezbollah began a massive rocket attack into Israel.
• At 0800/1600 the rocket assault ended. A market was it, inflicting 22 deaths, with 76 more wounded.
• At 0815/1615, IAF began bombing raids into Lebanon. Suspected Hezbollah positions in the buffer zone are targeted for rocket and bomb attack. Israeli radar-guided artillery executes counter-battery fire against the rocket launch positions.
• At 0820/1620, IAF strikes civilian targets in central Lebanon:
  1. Beirut power station, telephone exchange, water pumping stations
  2. Tyr power distribution station, docks
  3. Sidon power stations, sewage plant
  4. Zahle power station, etc.
• These strikes coincided with a message sent to the government of Lebanon stating that these strikes would continue so long as the Lebanese government continues to support the activities of Hezbollah.
• At 1300/2100, UN peacekeepers on patrol from Naqoura to Houle failed to report in.
• At 1600/0000, an observation helicopter was dispatched to locate the lost patrol. At 2200/0600, it located vehicles of the patrol just outside Barish. The vehicles were in the middle of a destroyed refugee camp. They were themselves destroyed.

Sunday, 7 Feb
• At 0000/0800, UN peacekeepers were ordered to the site.
• At 0200/1000, the Secretariat was informed of the damage to the refugee camp. The Council was convened to deal with this serious matter.