2024 in Lebanon

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Events in the year 2024 in Lebanon.

Incumbents

Events

Lebanon was involved in the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present).

January

• 2 January – Assassination of Saleh al-Arouri: Israel conducts an airstrike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, resulting in the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau.^[1]
• 8 January – Israel assassinates Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy commander of Hezbollah's Redwan Force, in Majdel Selm.^[2]
• 9 January – Hezbollah launches a drone attack on the Northern Command headquarters in Safed, Israel, marking its deepest incursion into Israeli territory since the outbreak of hostilities. In retaliation, Israel assassinates Ali Hussein Barji, the commander of Hezbollah's air force in Southern Lebanon.^[3]

February

• 8 February
  • An IDF drone targeted a car in Nabatieh. Israeli news sources says Abbas al-Dabs, a regional Hezbollah commander, was assassinated in the attack.^[4]
  • Lebanese veterans protesting outside the Lebanese parliament and the Prime Minister's residence are met with tear gas by security forces.^[5]
• 11 February – A five-story building collapses in the town of Choueifat.^[6]
• 14 February – A rocket attack from Lebanon against a military base kills a person and injures others in Safed, Israel, while Israeli airstrikes kills three civilians in Souaneh and a Hezbollah fighter in Aadchit, in southern Lebanon; eleven others are wounded.^[7] A total of 7 people were killed in a rocket attack on an apartment building in Nabatiye.^[8]
• 26 February – Israeli Air Force jets conduct strikes on Lebanese Hezbollah positions.^[9]

March

• 2 March – An IDF strike on a car in the coastal road of Naqoura killed a senior Hezbollah official and two other members of Hezbollah's Imam Hussein Division.^[10][11] It was reported that among them was the grandson of Hassan Nasrallah.^[12]

• 4 March
  • An anti-tank missile from Lebanon killed an Indian foreign worker and wounded seven others in Margaliot.^[13][14]
  • Three volunteer rescue workers were killed in an attack on an Islamic Health Authority center in Odaisseh.^[15]
• 5 March – 2 Hezbollah members and a woman were killed in an IDF raid in Houla in response to yesterday's attack.^[16]
• 26 March – Israeli warplanes launch airstrikes against Hezbollah targets near the towns of Ras Baalbek and Hermel in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, killing at least three Hezbollah members.^[17]

April

• 8 April – Killing of Pascal Suleiman: Pascal Suleiman, a Lebanese Forces coordinator in the Byblos District, is abducted and murdered by a Syrian gang in a car theft. Activists blocked roads and attacked Syrians refugees demanding them to leave the country.^[18]
• 10 April – Body of a man sanctioned by the United States for smuggling money to Iranian-backed groups is found killed in Beit Mery.^[19]
• 16 April – The Israeli military conducts an airstrike and assassinates Ismail Yusuf Baz, the commander of Hezbollah's coastal sector in Lebanon.^[20]
• 23 April – An Israeli Air Force airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine.^[21]
• 30 April – An explosion and subsequent fire at a Beirut restaurant kills 9 people.^[22]

May

• 5 May – Israeli air raids in Meiss Ej Jabal caused "massive destruction," according to a Lebanese state-run agency, killing four civilians and wounding two others.^[23][24] In response, Hezbollah fired dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets towards Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.^[25]
• 16 May – An army raid to arrest drug traffickers in the Shatila camp lead to the death of one and the injury of another.^[26]

Holidays

Source:^[27]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 6 January – Epiphany and Armenian Christmas
• 9 February – St. Maroun Day
• 25 March – Annunciation Day
• 29 March – Good Friday
• 31 March – Easter Sunday
• 10 April – Eid al-Fitr
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 25 May – Liberation and Resistance Day
• 17 June – Eid al-Adha
• 7 July – Islamic New Year
• 15 August – Assumption Day
• 16 September – The Prophet's Birthday
• 22 November – Lebanese Independence Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day

Deaths

• 8 January – Wissam al-Tawil, 53–54, militant, senior commander of Hezbollah.
• 9 January – Ali Hussein Barji, militant.
• 17 January – Hussein Madi, 85, painter and sculptor.
• 26 February – Fadi Ibrahim, 67, actor and director
• 8 April – Pascal Suleiman, IT specialist and politician, Lebanese Forces official

References

External links

• Online calendar