Instead of confronting a group of Muslim emirates and being able to play them off against one another, the Crusader states (Kingdom of Jerusalem, County of Tripoli and Principality of Antioch) faced a unified threat to their existence.

Infuriated, Nur ad-Din immediately began launching raids on the Franks in the vicinity and, in the battle of Lake Huleh in June 1157, defeated the Crusaders' army.

[1] The next larger clash of the war occurred on 15 July 1158 on the plains near the village of Butaiha, northeast of Lake Tiberias.

An army led by Baldwin and Thiery of Alsace, Count of Flanders, defeated the forces of Nur ad-Din[2] during their raid on the border within the Zengid territory.

Event is pictured on the large-scale painting by French artist Éloi Firmin Féron (1802–1876), named The Battle of Putaha on July 15, 1159, between King Baldwin III of Jerusalem and Emir Nur ad-Din, while incorrectly dated to the year after.