2008 · Lebanon History
- 25 January 2008Assassination of officer Wissam EidOn 25 January 2008 Captain Wissam Eid, the Information Branch investigator who analysed the telecommunications networks…
- 27 January 2008The Mar Mikhael events: "Black Sunday" in ChiyahOn the evening of 27 January 2008 young men blocked the road at the Mar Mikhael church in Chiyah in protest at the…
- 12 February 2008Assassination of commander Imad MughniyehOn 12 February 2008 commander Imad Mughniyeh, "Hajj Radwan", Hezbollah's military commander and the man most wanted by…
- 14 February 2008Jumblatt's 14 February speech: "you want an open war"
- 14 February 2008Nasrallah at Mughniyeh's funeral: "open war"On 14 February 2008 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed the funeral of the martyr commander Hajj Imad Mughniyeh in the…
- 5 May 2008The government's two decisionsWalid Jumblatt pushed the government into two decisions: dismantling the resistance's telecommunications network and…
- 7 May 20087 May: the labour strike turns into roadblocks and gunfireOn 7 May 2008 the General Labour Confederation's strike over wages and prices turned into a confrontation over the…
- 8 May 2008Nasrallah's press conference: "I declare no war, but a decision of self-defence"On the afternoon of 8 May 2008, the day after the strike on which demonstrators were shot at, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
- 8 May 2008Hezbollah and its allies take West BeirutOn the evening of 8 May 2008, minutes after Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's press conference, street fighting broke out on…
- 9 May 2008Future TV shut and Hariri orders his men to stand downAt dawn on 9 May 2008 the fighting resumed and the loyalist (14 March) militias lost what remained to them in West…
- 9 May 2008The Mountain fighting begins: Aytat, Aley, Baysour, ChoueifatOn 9 May 2008 the fighting spread to the Mountain, between fighters of the Progressive Socialist Party and Hezbollah in…
- 10 May 2008Halba killings
- 10 May 2008Mountain fighting: Barouk and Shahhar; villages handed to the armyOn 11 May 2008 the 7 May confrontations spread to the Mountain: Hezbollah and its allies attacked the PSP's positions…
- 10 May 2008The army freezes the two decisions, Hezbollah announces its withdrawal from BeirutOn 10 May 2008 the army command announced the freezing of the government's two decisions on the telecommunications…
- 11 May 2008Positions handed to the army, an Arab committee led by QatarOn 11 May 2008 Beirut calmed and the army took over the areas the opposition had controlled, with the airport road…
- 12 May 2008Gunfire in Hamra and the Aley hostage swap
- 15 May 2008The Arab committee announces a halt and the Doha invitationOn 15 May 2008, after meetings with the Lebanese leaders, the Arab ministerial committee announced a preliminary…
- 15 May 2008WikiLeaks cable: Saudi Arabia proposes an Arab force with US and NATO cover to crush HezbollahIn a cable from the American embassy in Riyadh published by WikiLeaks in December 2010, the Saudi foreign minister Saud…
- 21 May 2008The Doha AgreementOn 21 May 2008 the Lebanese parties signed an agreement in Doha under Qatari–Arab sponsorship: the election of Michel…
- 25 May 2008Election of Michel SleimanOn 25 May 2008 parliament elected the army commander Michel Sleiman president of the republic in application of the…
- 16 July 2008The prisoner exchangeOn 16 July 2008 Hezbollah handed over the bodies of the two soldiers Goldwasser and Regev in exchange for the release…
- 1 August 2008Assassination of Brig. Gen. Mohammad Suleiman, Bashar's aide and Hezbollah liaison
- 13 August 2008Sleiman in Damascus: embassies exchanged with SyriaOn 13 August 2008 President Michel Sleiman visited Damascus and agreed with Assad on establishing diplomatic relations…
- 28 August 2008Army helicopter brought down at Sujud, pilot Samer Hanna killedOn 28 August 2008 a Lebanese army helicopter approached a Hezbollah training camp over the Sujud hills in Iqlim…
- September 2008MEPI "Tomorrow's Leaders" scholarships
- 4 October 2008The "Dahiya doctrine": Eisenkot threatens every village rockets are fired fromIn an interview with "Yedioth Ahronoth" at the start of October 2008, the Israeli Northern Command chief Gadi Eisenkot…
- 27 December 2008Assault on Gaza ("Cast Lead")From 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009 Israel waged Operation "Cast Lead" on Gaza after the collapse of the truce…
- 29 December 2008Nasrallah calls on Egyptians to open RafahOn 28 December 2008, the second day of the "Cast Lead" aggression, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called on the Egyptian…