2006 · Lebanon History
- 5 February 2006Burning of the Danish consulate in Ashrafieh
- 6 February 2006The Mar Mikhael understandingOn 6 February 2006 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and General Michel Aoun signed in the Mar Mikhael church in Chiyah the…
- 9 February 2006Ashura speech against the cartoons of the Prophet
- 22 February 2006Bombing of the al-Askari shrineOn 22 February 2006 al-Qaeda in Iraq blew up the dome of the shrine of the two Askari Imams in Samarra, setting off a…
- 23 February 2006The "shrouds" demonstrations in DahiyehOn 23 February 2006, the day after the bombing of the shrine of the two Askari Imams in Samarra, Hezbollah held a mass…
- 2 March 2006The national dialogue table
- 26 May 2006Assassination of the Majzoub brothersOn 26 May 2006 the Islamic Jihad leaders Mahmoud and Nidal al-Majzoub were assassinated by a car bomb in Sidon. The…
- 1 June 2006Dahieh protests over the "Basmat Watan" sketch
- 5 June 2006Nasrallah's press conference after the "Basmat Watan" protests
- 7 June 2006Killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
- 10 June 2006The Mahmoud Rafeh network exposed: a Mossad cell behind assassinations since 1999On 10 June 2006, after the assassination of the Majzoub brothers, the Lebanese army arrested Mahmoud Rafeh and members…
- 25 June 2006Capture of Gilad ShalitOn 25 June 2006 Hamas and two other factions captured the soldier Gilad Shalit in an attack through a tunnel on a…
- 28 June 2006Assault on GazaOn 28 June 2006 Israel began Operation "Summer Rains" in Gaza after the capture of Shalit, invading parts of the Strip…
- 12 July 2006Operation "Truthful Promise"
- 12 July 2006The July 2006 warFrom 12 July to 14 August 2006 Israel waged an air and ground war on Lebanon after the capture of the two soldiers:…
- 12 July 2006Nasrallah's press conference after the captureAt noon on 12 July 2006 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced at a press conference the execution of "the Truthful Promise"…
- 13 July 2006Airport and bridges bombed, the blockade begins: Dweir the first massacreOn 13 July 2006 Israel began its policy of displacement: a massacre in Dweir raised the number of martyrs to fifty; the…
- 13 July 2006Saudi statement: "uncalculated adventures", full responsibility on the resistanceOn 13 July 2006 Saudi Arabia laid "full responsibility" on the resistance for its "irresponsible actions" and called on…
- 14 July 2006Nasrallah: "look at it burning" (INS Hanit hit)On the evening of 14 July 2006 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed the Lebanese and announced, during the speech, that…
- 14 July 2006The corvette Hanit hit off BeirutOn the evening of 14 July 2006 a C-802 naval missile hit the Israeli corvette "Hanit" off the Beirut shore, killing…
- July 2006Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq founded
- 15 July 2006Marwahin massacre: a convoy of displaced villagers under UNIFIL's eyesOn 15 July 2006 Israel warned the people of Marwahin to evacuate and the UN forces refused to take them in, so they…
- 16 July 2006Second wartime appeal: Haifa and beyond
- 16 July 2006First rocket barrage on Haifa: eight killed at the train depotOn the morning of 16 July 2006 the Islamic Resistance fired Iranian-made "Raad" rockets at Haifa for the first time,…
- 17 July 2006Jamhour barracks strike: 11 Lebanese soldiers killed, the Rmeileh convoy massacre
- 18 July 2006Jumblatt and Hariri: "the adventurers" and "monopolising the decision of war"On 17 and 18 July 2006, with the war in its first week, Saad Hariri told "Okaz" that "the adventurers have put us in an…
- 18 July 2006Aitaroun massacre: nine killed in the Awada house
- 19 July 2006The day of seventy martyrs: Srifa, Nabi Sheet and Salaa
- 20 July 2006Battle of Maroun al-Ras: the first ground engagementFrom 20 to 23 July 2006 Israeli forces tried to advance on the Maroun al-Ras axis near Avivim; the resistance fighters…
- 20 July 2006Nasrallah: "if the whole universe came it could not recover the two prisoners without negotiations"
- 21 July 2006Al Jazeera interview: no release without an exchange; Berri the only channel
- 21 July 2006Rice: "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"On 21 July 2006, at a press conference in Washington before leaving for the region, Condoleezza Rice rejected the calls…
- 22 July 2006Broadcast masts bombed, bunker-busting bombs rushed in
- 23 July 2006Destruction of the Qaem, Sayyed al-Shuhada and Zahraa complexes
- 24 July 2006Rice's surprise visit to Beirut and the "Siniora kiss"On 24 July 2006, the thirteenth day of the war, the American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice arrived by helicopter…
- 24 July 2006Apache downed, raid into AvivimOn 24 July 2006, after 4,500 raids and with the war entering its third week, Israel pushed special units and…
- 25 July 2006The "beyond beyond Haifa" address: no humiliating terms
- 25 July 2006Four UN observers killed at the Khiam postOn 25 July 2006 heavy missiles destroyed the international observers' post near the Khiam prison (which the raids had…
- 26 July 2006The Rome conference and Siniora's seven pointsOn 26 July 2006 the international Rome conference on Lebanon met, and Fouad Siniora presented a seven-point plan: a…
- 26 July 2006The Bint Jbeil epic: the Saff al-Hawa ambushesOn 26 July 2006 Israel announced the occupation of Bint Jbeil overnight, and its soldiers woke to tight ambushes at the…
- 27 July 2006Security cabinet: no wider ground push, tens of thousands of reservists called up
- 28 July 2006First Khaibar-1 rocket on Afula: "beyond Haifa" beginsOn 28 July 2006 the Islamic Resistance fired a "Khaibar 1" rocket for the first time, at Afula, 47 kilometres from the…
- 28 July 2006The fighters' letter from the border: "we are your truthful promise"
- 29 July 2006Appeal: "in the battle of wills we will not break"
- 29 July 2006Nmairiyeh and Ain Arab massacres, humanitarian truce refused
- 30 July 2006The second Qana massacreAt dawn on 30 July 2006 Israeli aircraft bombed a building sheltering displaced families in Qana; 54 were martyred,…
- 30 July 2006Berri and Siniora after Qana: negotiations halted, ceasefire firstOn 30 July 2006 Nabih Berri and Fouad Siniora announced a united position at a joint press conference: a halt to all…
- 31 July 2006Second Saar corvette hit off Bayyada, five tanks destroyed
- 1 August 2006The Dar al-Hikma raid in Baalbek: 18 killed and five abductedOn the night of 1–2 August 2006 more than two hundred soldiers from elite units landed at the Dar al-Hikma hospital in…
- 1 August 2006Aita al-Shaab school ambush: 15 Golani casualties
- 2 August 2006Three hundred rockets in a day, Beit Shean at 70 kilometres
- 3 August 2006Nasrallah: if you bomb Beirut we bomb Tel AvivOn 3 August 2006, after the second Qana massacre and the bombing of the southern suburbs, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
- 3 August 2006150 rockets in an hour: eight killed in Acre and the north
- 4 August 2006The Qaa massacre: 34 Syrian farm workersOn 4 August 2006 aircraft struck a vegetable-packing workshop at the Qaa al-Rim farms in the northern Bekaa; 34 Syrian…
- 4 August 2006Khaibar on Hadera: 75 kilometres, the Ramat David and Yoav bases
- 5 August 2006Shayetet 13 landing foiled at Shabriha on the heaviest day of raids
- 6 August 2006Kfar Giladi: 12 reservists killed by two rockets, and Haifa's "hardest day"On 6 August 2006 two rockets hit a gathering of a command platoon of paratroop brigade reservists at kibbutz Kfar…
- 7 August 2006Siniora's tears before the Arab foreign ministers in Beirut
- 7 August 2006The Chiyah massacre: the displaced families' building near the Hajjaj mosqueOn 7 August 2006 Chiyah was targeted for the first time: heavy missiles fell on a building near the Hajjaj mosque that…
- 8 August 2006The second Ghaziyeh massacre: the funeral of the previous day's dead bombed
- 9 August 2006Message on the seven points and the draft UN resolution
- 9 August 2006The day of fifteen: Debel and Taibeh, and the push to the Litani approvedOn 9 August 2006 the enemy admitted 15 soldiers killed and 38 wounded in Aita al-Shaab, Debel and Taibeh (nine of them…
- 10 August 2006Israeli troops take the Marjayoun barracks and the "tea" scandalOn 10 August 2006 some two hundred Israeli soldiers with two tanks entered the Internal Security Forces and army…
- 10 August 2006The Markaba and Khiam plain battles: 18 killed and 15 tanksOn 10 August 2006 the enemy lost 18 dead, officers and men, and 15 Merkava tanks were destroyed on the axes, the…
- 11 August 2006UNSC resolution 1701On 11 August 2006 the Security Council adopted Resolution 1701: a cessation of hostilities from 14 August, the…
- 11 August 2006Strike on the Marjayoun evacuation convoy: seven killed
- 11 August 2006The Hissa bridge massacre and the Super Dvora boat hit
- 12 August 2006Wadi al-Hujeir: the "Merkava massacre" and the biggest airlift since 1973On 12 August 2006, the day after Resolution 1701, Israel threw some 130,000 troops into the largest airborne operation…
- 13 August 2006The last day: 250 rockets, the failed Boudai raid, the pre-ceasefire massacresOn 13 August 2006 Israel escalated before the ceasefire took effect: twenty martyrs in raids on Burj al-Shamali,…
- 14 August 2006The "strategic and historic victory" speech and the reconstruction pledgeOn 14 August 2006, the day of the cessation of hostilities and the return of the displaced, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
- 14 August 2006Cessation of hostilities and the return of the displaced: Olmert admits failingsOn the morning of 14 August 2006, the thirty-fourth day, the war stopped and the people of the South began returning at…
- 31 August 2006The Stockholm reconstruction conference
- 17 September 2006The Winograd CommissionOn 17 September 2006 the Israeli government formed a commission headed by Judge Eliyahu Winograd to investigate the…
- 22 September 2006"Divine Victory" rallyOn 22 September 2006 hundreds of thousands gathered in the southern suburbs for the "Divine Victory rally", and Sayyed…
- 1 October 2006US security assistance to the army and ISF: over $2.5 billion since 2006After the July 2006 war Washington launched an arming and training programme for the Lebanese army and the Internal…
- 15 October 2006Islamic State of Iraq declaredOn 15 October 2006 the Mujahideen Shura Council proclaimed the "Islamic State of Iraq" under Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the…
- 21 November 2006Assassination of Pierre GemayelOn 21 November 2006 the industry minister Pierre Amine Gemayel was assassinated by gunmen who intercepted his car in…
- 1 December 2006The downtown sit-inThe 8 March forces came down to the city centre in an open-ended sit-in to bring down the government after Siniora's…
- 7 December 2006Nasrallah: "the Feltman government"On 7 December 2006, the seventh day of the central Beirut sit-in, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Siniora's government…
- 30 December 2006Execution of Saddam Hussein