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1972 · Lebanon History

• 25 February 1972Four-day Israeli incursion into the south
• 16 April 19721972 parliamentary elections
• 8 May 1972Hijacking of Sabena flight 571
• 30 May 1972Lod airport attack
• 21 June 1972Israeli ambush in South Lebanon
• 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…
• 5 September 1972The Munich operationA hostage-taking of Israeli athletes during the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, on 5–6 September 1972, carried out…
• 8 September 1972Israeli air raids on Syria and LebanonIsraeli aircraft bombed ten PLO bases in Syria and Lebanon in reply to the Munich operation. The raids' victims reached…
• 16 September 1972Israeli incursion into the SouthOn 16 September 1972, after the Munich operation, Israeli forces pushed into South Lebanon for days against the…
• 29 October 1972Hijacking of Lufthansa flight 615
• 3 November 1972Ghandour factory protestsSome 1,500 workers, men and women, at the Ghandour sweets and biscuit factories (the Chiyah and Choueifat branches)…
• 11 November 1972The 11 November massacreThe security forces (the gendarmerie) surrounded the Chiyah factory to disperse the sit-in and break the strike by…
• 13 November 1972Kamal Jumblatt's demonstrationA mass demonstration of thousands of workers and students set off in protest at the repression, with Kamal Jumblatt…