[7] On 13 April 1996, during Operation Grapes of Wrath, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) helicopter attacked a vehicle in Al-Mansouri, killing two women and four children.

[13] In early 2000, environmentalist Mona Khalil – who had inherited her family's beachfront farm that stretches from the main road to the yet unspoiled beaches – moved to Al-Mansouri from the Netherlands, where she had lived in exile for 25 years.

Three months later, the IDF ended two decades of Israeli occupation in the nearby buffer zone and withdrew with its allies of the South Lebanon Army from there.

In the same year, Khalil and her associate Habiba Fayed opened their Orange House Project as a bed-and-breakfast in order to finance their efforts to protect the nesting grounds of endangered sea turtles through ecotourism.

An unidentified assailant disrupted the filming, assaulting cameraman Samir Baitamouni and verbally threatening Khalil, citing affiliations with Hezbollah and Amal.