The popularity of Druse leader Fakhr-al-Din has alarmed the Ottomans, who issue authority for Hafiz Ahmed Pasha, Muhafiz of Damascus, to mount an attack on Lebanon in 1613, in order to reduce Fakhr-al-Din's growing power.

Facing Hafez's army of fifty thousand men, Fakhr-al-Din chooses exile to Italy, where in Tuscany he will be received by the Medici Family, leaving affairs in the hands of his brother Emir Yunus and his son Emir Ali Beg.

Fakhr-al-Din's exile does not prompt the Lebanese army to surrender to Hafiz Ahmed Pasha's army.

They maintain their positions while the military operations rage until Emir Yunus manages through negotiations and persuasion to bring an end to the killings, securing the retreat of the Ottoman army.