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1998 · Lebanon History

• 24 January 1998Support Committee iftar: 1997 in review, "the resistance needs money, not men"
• 30 January 1998Clashes with TufayliClashes between Hezbollah and Sheikh Sobhi Tufayli at the Ain Bourday seminary in the Bekaa, and the sheikh's retreat…
• 27 February 1998Attack on the Blat position in the western sector
• 1998Raids on Palestinian camps
• 29 March 1998Nasrallah on "conditional withdrawal": no negotiation over 425
• 1 April 1998Israel's cabinet offers a conditional implementation of resolution 425On 1 April 1998 Netanyahu's government decided to accept Resolution 425 and withdraw from South Lebanon on condition of…
• 7 May 1998Nasrallah's speech "on the Jews"
• 26 May 1998Bomb seventy-five metres from the border
• 26 June 1998The exchangeOn 26 June 1998 an exchange took place through German mediation: Israel handed over 40 bodies of resistance martyrs,…
• 1998Raid and roadside bomb operationA raid on several positions in the South and the detonation of a bomb near the border strip.
• 2 July 1998Simultaneous attack on eighteen positions and the storming of Haddatha
• July 1998Bashar al-Assad takes the Lebanon file from Khaddam; Shihabi retiresIn 1998 vice-president Abdel Halim Khaddam, the architect of Syrian policy in Lebanon since the 1970s, asked to be…
• 12 August 1998"Serious failure" at Sojod: hand-to-hand fight and the flag raised
• 13 September 1998Release of Souha Bechara after ten years in Khiam
• 15 October 1998Election of Emile LahoudOn 15 October 1998 parliament elected the army commander Emile Lahoud president after amending the constitution, with…
• 1998Honouring martyrs' families: "we faced the myth of the invincible army; now they face the invincible martyr"
• 26 November 1998Bomb at the border fence kills two soldiers and cuts short Netanyahu's European tour
• 16 December 1998"Desert Fox": US–British strikes on Iraq