Operation Density was an Israeli Air Force bombing campaign that was conducted against Hezbollah rocket launchers in Lebanon at the start of the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
The war between Israel and Hezbollah began with Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on 12 July 2006. Israel responded with a series of airstrikes meant to destroy the long-range rocket capability of Hezbollah. In the early hours of 13 July, the Israeli Air Force targeted dozens of stationary missile launchers concealed in the homes of Hezbollah militants and Shia families throughout Lebanon. The IDF hit 59 missile launchers, with between one-half and two-thirds of Hezbollah's Iranian-made long-range rockets being destroyed. The operation was a devastating blow to Hezbollah, which believed that the location of its missile launchers was a safely guarded secret. Within 39 minutes, the IAF devastated Hezbollah's missile stocks.