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2024 in Lebanon

2024 in Lebanon

Lebanon-related events during 2024


Events in the year 2024 in Lebanon.

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

January

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]

Holidays

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Deaths


References

  1. "Hamas deputy head killed in alleged Israeli drone strike in Beirut". The Jerusalem Post. 2024-01-02. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  2. "Hezbollah says senior commander killed in Israeli strike". Al Jazeera. 2024-01-08. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
  3. Beaumont, Peter (2024-01-09). "Israel and Hezbollah edge closer to war as drone hits key Israeli command base". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  4. Lebanon, William Christou ــ (2024-02-08). "Israeli drone strikes car in south Lebanon's Nabatieh". www.newarab.com/. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  5. Prentis, Jamie (2024-02-08). "Lebanese veterans hit with tear gas in Beirut protest over pensions". The National. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  6. "Five-story building collapses in Lebanon". en.royanews.tv. 2024-02-11. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
  7. "Mother, two children among Lebanese killed by Israel in air raids". Al Jazeera. 2024-02-14. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
  8. Atallah, Nada Maucourant (2024-02-16). "'They were only civilians': shock in Lebanon's Nabatieh after Israel's air strikes". The National. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  9. "1 killed, 7 wounded by anti-tank missile fire from Lebanon at northern community". The Times of Israel. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  10. "Hezbollah says two members killed in southern Lebanon town". The Times of Israel. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  11. Ula, enab10 (2024-04-11). "Wave of attacks against Syrians in Lebanon, Syrian opposition condemns, while regime is silent". Enab Baladi. Retrieved 2024-04-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. Staff (2024-04-10). "Lebanese man under US sanctions for allegedly funding Hamas found dead". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  13. "Israeli drone strike on car kills Hezbollah commander in Lebanon". The Salamanca Press. 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  14. "ضحايا بانفجار مطعم في بيروت | الشرق للأخبار". asharq.com (in Arabic). 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
  15. "Netanyahu Says Israel Won't Give in to Hamas Demand to End War". Bloomberg. 2024-05-05. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
  16. "Hezbollah claims responsibility for rocket barrage on Kiryat Shmona". The Times of Israel. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  17. "Lebanon Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 12 December 2023.

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