Palestinians in Lebanon
81 events
- 14 May 1948The NakbaOn 14 May 1948 Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel as the British Mandate ended; the Arab armies entered the next…
- 31 March 1959Security clampdown on the Palestinian camps
- 10 October 1959Founding of FatahOn 10 October 1959 the founding of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) was announced in Kuwait by…
- 28 May 1964Founding of the PLOOn 28 May 1964 the first Palestinian National Congress met in Jerusalem, by decision of the Arab summit, and proclaimed…
- 14 April 1968Arafat takes the lead; "Fatahland" takes shapeFatah's central committee named Yasser Arafat its official spokesman and representative. The Palestinian factions began…
- 23 April 1969The 23 April 1969 clashes and the seven-month cabinet crisisOn 23 April 1969 the army clashed with demonstrators supporting the fedayeen in Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, leaving…
- 22 October 1969Army–fedayeen clashes before the Cairo AgreementOn 22 October 1969 wide clashes broke out between the Lebanese army and the Palestinian fedayeen in the South, the…
- 3 November 1969The Cairo AgreementOn 3 November 1969, after clashes between the army and the fedayeen and a government crisis that lasted seven months,…
- 1 January 1970Capture of an Israeli soldier
- 8 May 1970Avivim school-bus attack launched from Lebanon
- 10 July 1970Attempt on Wadie Haddad
- 15 July 1970Attempt on George Habash
- 16 September 1970Black SeptemberFighting between the Jordanian army and the Palestinian resistance, ending with the fedayeen's departure from Jordan to…
- 1 July 1971The PLO leadership and forces move from Jordan to LebanonAfter the Jordanian army settled the battle of the Jerash forests in July 1971, the PLO leadership and thousands of…
- 25 February 1972Four-day Israeli incursion into the south
- 8 July 1972Assassination of Ghassan KanafaniOn 8 July 1972 the novelist and Popular Front spokesman Ghassan Kanafani and his niece were killed by a bomb in his car…
- 10 April 1973The Verdun operationOn the night of 10 April 1973 Israeli commandos landed in Beirut (Operation "Spring of Youth") and assassinated three…
- 2 May 1973The army and the camps
- 8 May 1973Arab boycott of Lebanon
- 17 May 1973The Melkart Agreement
- 11 July 1973Mossad operation in Tripoli
- 11 April 1974Kiryat Shmona attack from Lebanon
- 15 May 1974The Ma'alot operationOn 15 May 1974, the anniversary of the Nakba, three members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine…
- 16 May 1974Bombing of the Nabatieh camp after Maalot
- 1 July 1974Dekwaneh clashesOn 1 July 1974 wide clashes broke out in Dekwaneh, next to the Tel al-Zaatar camp, between Palestinian factions and…
- 4 January 1976Siege of Tel al-Zaatar beginsOn 4 January 1976 the Kataeb and the Ahrar closed a siege around the Tel al-Zaatar camp, Dbayeh and Jisr al-Basha in…
- 14 January 1976Fall of the Dbayeh camp
- 18 January 1976Karantina massacreOn 18 January 1976 the militias of the Kataeb, the Tigers of the Ahrar, the Guardians of the Cedars and the Tanzim…
- January 1976Palestine Liberation Army intervenesIn January 1976, with the fall of Karantina (18 January), units of the Palestine Liberation Army stationed in Syria…
- 20 January 1976Damour massacreIn reply to Karantina: the National Movement and the PLO. 200 Christians killed and driven out of Damour.
- 24 January 1976Siege of Camille Chamoun at Saadiyat; residence looted and burnedDuring the siege of Damour (which began on 9 January 1976) the army kept a single exit open, and some 6,000 civilians…
- 10 March 1976Fedayeen move into Khiyam and its barracksOn 10 March 1976, two days after Lieutenant Ahmad al-Khatib and the "Arab Army of Lebanon" took the southern barracks…
- 6 June 1976Clashes with the Syrian armyConfrontations between the Syrian army and the leftists and the PLO: on 6 June 1976 the Syrian column advancing towards…
- 16 June 1976Assassination of the US ambassadorOn 16 June 1976 the American ambassador Francis Meloy, the economic counsellor Robert Waring and their driver were…
- 29 June 1976Fall of the Jisr al-Basha camp
- 12 August 1976Tel al-Zaatar massacreCarried out by the Tigers and the right, with the cooperation of the Syrian and Lebanese armies and the presence of an…
- 26 September 1976Attack on a Damascus hotel
- 21 October 1976Aishiyeh massacre
- 7 April 1977The fedayeen retake Khiyam
- 17 July 1977The Shtura agreement on applying the Cairo accord
- 16 September 1977Renewed fighting over Khiyam
- 11 March 1978The Coastal Road operation (Dalal Mughrabi)On 11 March 1978 a Fatah group that had set out by sea from Lebanon landed on a beach near Haifa under the command of…
- 14 March 1978The Litani invasionOn 14 March 1978 Israel invaded South Lebanon up to the Litani with some 25,000 troops; about a thousand were killed…
- 9 May 1978Kaukaba clash between the Norwegian battalion and the fedayeen
- 22 January 1979Assassination of Abu Hassan SalamehOn 22 January 1979 the Mossad assassinated Ali Hassan Salameh, "the Red Prince", commander of Force 17, head of…
- 18 April 1979The "State of Free Lebanon"
- 22 April 1979The Samir Kuntar operation
- 27 August 1980Assassination attempt on US Ambassador John Gunther Dean
- 17 July 1981The Fakhani bombingOn 17 July 1981 Israeli aircraft bombed the PLO's headquarters in the Fakhani district of West Beirut, killing some…
- 24 July 1981Fighting in the SouthFighting in the South between the PLO and Israel, then a ceasefire.
- 7 August 1981The Saudi peace initiativeOn 7 August 1981 the Saudi crown prince Fahd put forward an eight-point initiative including Israel's withdrawal to the…
- 17 September 1981Car bomb at the Joint Forces HQ in Sidon, and the Chekka blastOn 17 September 1981 a car carrying some 300 kilograms of TNT exploded outside the regional headquarters of the PLO and…
- 1 October 1981Car bomb outside PLO offices in FakhaniOn 1 October 1981 a car bomb exploded outside the PLO's offices in Fakhani in West Beirut, killing at least 50 people…
- 29 November 1981The Azbakiyah bombing in Damascus
- April 1982Amal fights a pro-Saddam groupIn April 1982 the Amal Movement fought fierce battles in West Beirut, the southern suburbs and the South against…
- 3 June 1982Attempt on ambassador Shlomo Argov in LondonOn 3 June 1982 gunmen of the Abu Nidal group shot the Israeli ambassador in London, leaving him paralysed; Israel took…
- 6 June 1982Battle of Beaufort castleOn 6 June 1982, the first day of the invasion, a Golani unit stormed Beaufort castle, where the PLO fighters held out…
- 6 June 1982Battle of the Ain al-Hilweh camp
- 11 June 1982Battle of KhaldeFrom 11 June 1982 an alliance of fighters of the Amal Movement, the Communist Party's Popular Guard and the PLO fought…
- 14 June 1982The siege of Beirut beginsOn 14 June 1982 Israeli forces reached Baabda, cut the Damascus road and closed the siege around West Beirut, where the…
- 21 August 1982The PLO leaves LebanonOn 21 August 1982 PLO fighters began leaving Beirut by sea and land under the Philip Habib agreement, after a siege of…
- 4 September 1982The Bhamdoun operation: eight Israeli soldiers capturedOn 4 September 1982 a group from Fatah's Jarmaq battalion infiltrated an Israeli observation post north of Bhamdoun and…
- 16 September 1982Sabra and Shatila massacreBetween 16 and 18 September 1982, two days after the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the Lebanese Forces entered the…
- 28 January 1983Car bomb in Chtaura
- 6 February 1983Bombing of the Palestine Research Center in Beirut
- 7 August 1983Car bomb in the Baalbek market
- 3 November 1983Battle of Tripoli: the Palestinian dissidents against ArafatFrom 3 November 1983 Fatah al-Intifada (Abu Musa), with Syrian forces, attacked Arafat's positions in Beddawi and Nahr…
- 5 December 1983The Chiyah bombing
- 20 December 1983Arafat leaves TripoliOn 20 December 1983 Yasser Arafat and some 4,700 of his supporters left Tripoli on five Greek ships under French naval…
- 19 May 1985The War of the CampsBetween the Amal Movement (backed by Syria and the Lebanese army) and the PLO (backed by the Socialist Party and…
- 17 June 1985Damascus ceasefire between Amal and the Palestinian Salvation Front
- 27 March 1986Third round of the War of the Camps
- 27 March 1986Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona hit a school
- 29 September 1986Battle of the Rashidieh campOn 29 September 1986 the battle of Rashidieh in Tyre began between Amal and the Palestinian factions and went on for…
- 24 November 1986Amal's positions in Sidon taken
- 15 December 1986Ceasefire between Amal and the pro-Syrian factions
- 13 February 1987Relief trucks shelled at the entrance of Burj al-Barajneh
- 24 February 1987Fathallah barracks massacreOn 24 February 1987, two days after the Syrian army entered West Beirut, a Syrian force stormed Hezbollah's Fathallah…
- 2 January 1988Air strikes on Ain al-Hilweh and the Sidon coast
- 1 July 1991The Battle of SidonFrom 1 to 4 July 1991 the Lebanese army attacked the Palestinian positions outside the Ain el-Hilweh and Mieh Mieh…
- 6 April 2023Rockets from the South