After Hizbullah attacked an IDF border patrol, abducted twosoldiers and began bombarding the North with rockets and missiles, prime minister Ehud Olmert declared that Israel would return to Lebanon and defeat Hizbullah.
The Centcom memo also condemns Israel's July 2006 decision to respond to Hizbullah's unprovoked bombardment of northern Israel and its unprovoked cross-border attack against an IDF patrol in which five soldiers were killed and two were kidnapped and subsequently murdered.
Israel's conflict with Palestinian militants in Gaza spread to Lebanon after the Lebanese Hizbullah party attacked an Israeli patrol on Israel's northern border, captured twosoldiers and killed five more.