Events in the year 2024 in Lebanon.
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Ongoing: Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present).
February
- 8 February
- An IDF drone targets a car in Nabatieh. Israeli media reports that Abbas al-Dabs, a regional Hezbollah commander, is assassinated in the attack.[4]
- Veterans protesting outside the Lebanese parliament and the Prime Minister's residence are met with tear gas by security forces.[5]
- 11 February – A five-story building collapses in Choueifat.[6]
- 14 February – A rocket attack from Lebanon against a military base kills a person and injures others in Safed, Israel, while Israeli airstrikes kill three civilians in Souaneh and a Hezbollah fighter in Aadchit, in southern Lebanon; eleven others are wounded.[7] Seven people are killed in a rocket attack on an apartment building in Nabatieh.[8]
- 26 February – Israel Air Force (IAF) jets conduct strikes on Hezbollah positions.[9]
March
- 2 March – An IDF strike on a car in the coastal road of Naqoura kills a senior Hezbollah official and two other members of Hezbollah's Imam Hussein Division.[10][11] It is reported that among them was the grandson of Hassan Nasrallah.[12]
- 4 March
- An anti-tank missile from Lebanon kills an Indian foreign worker and injures seven others in Margaliot, Israel.[13][14]
- Three volunteer rescue workers are killed in an attack on an Islamic Health Authority center in Odaisseh.[15]
- 5 March – Two Hezbollah members and a woman are killed in an IDF raid in Hula in response to the attack on 4 March.[16]
- 26 March – The IAF launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets near the towns of Ras Baalbek and Hermel in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, killing at least three Hezbollah members.[17]
April
- 8 April – Killing of Pascal Suleiman: Pascal Suleiman, a Lebanese Forces coordinator in the Byblos District, is abducted and murdered by a Syrian gang in a car theft. In response, activists block roads and attack Syrian refugees demanding them to leave the country.[18]
- 10 April – A man sanctioned by the United States for smuggling money to Iranian-backed groups is found killed in Beit Mery.[19]
- 16 April – The IDF conducts an airstrike and assassinates Ismail Yusuf Baz, the commander of Hezbollah's coastal sector in Lebanon.[20]
- 23 April – An IAF airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine.[21]
- 30 April – An explosion and subsequent fire at a Beirut restaurant kills nine people.[22]
July
- 3 July –
- Senior Hezbollah field commander Mohammed Nasser is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tyre.[35]
- Hezbollah launches a barrage of at least 100 Katyusha rockets towards northern Israel, targeting IDF positions, in retaliation for the killing of Nasser.[36]
- 4 July – Hezbollah launches at least 200 rockets and a swarm of drones at ten IDF sites and threatens to expand its targeting range, in retaliation for the killing of Mohammed Nasser, a top Hezbollah commander.[37]
- 9 July – Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Syria killing two Israelis.[38]
- 15 July – An Israeli airstrike on Bint Jbeil, kills three civilians and injures three others. The IDF says that its fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area.[39]
- 16 July – Three Syrian children are killed by an Israeli airstrike on the village of Umm al-Tut in southern Lebanon, while two others are killed during a strike on the Kfar Tebnit-Khardali road.[40]
- 26 July – U.S. President Joe Biden adds Lebanon to the Deferred Enforced Departure list, temporarily protecting Lebanese citizens residing in the United States from deportation for 18 months, in response to growing tensions between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.[41]
- 27 July – Majdal Shams attack:
- Twelve people, including several children, are killed in rocket strikes on the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli Golan Heights. Israel claims that Hezbollah is responsible for the attack, but Hezbollah denies any involvement.[42]
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows that Hezbollah will "pay a heavy price" which "it has not paid so far" in response to the attack.[43]
- 28 July – Several nations, including the United States, Australia, and multiple European nations release travel advisories urging all their citizens not to travel to Lebanon, and for those residing there to leave as soon as possible in anticipation of an Israeli attack against Hezbollah.[44]
- 30 July –
August
- 3 August – The United States embassy in Beirut urges its citizens to leave the country amid increasing tensions in the Middle East.[48]
- 8 August –
- One Lebanese civilian and a Hezbollah militant are killed and three Lebanese civilians are injured in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon.[49]
- Hezbollah fires 25 rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and fifteen rockets at Shlomi and Kabri in Upper Galilee, Israel. All rockets are intercepted by the Iron Dome.[50]
- 9 August – Samer al-Hajj, a Hamas security official for the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, is assassinated by an Israeli drone strike in Sidon.[51]
- 12 August – Hezbollah fires 30 Katyusha rockets targeting the IDF 146th Division headquarters in Ga'aton and an IDF surveillance station in Metula. An Israeli Iron Dome interceptor missile destroys an Avdon residence.[52]
- 13 August – The IAF launches airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Kfar Kila, Marwahin, Meiss Ej Jabal and Aita al-Shaab.[53]
- 15 August – Hezbollah launches four rockets at IDF targets in Shamir and Malkia in Upper Galilee which were intercepted by the Iron Dome causing a fire in Shamir and Ruwaysat al-Alam of Kfarchouba in southern Lebanon.[54]
- 17 August –
- 19 August –
- Several Israeli civilians are injured in Ya'ara in Hezbollah rocket launches and drone strikes in Western Galilee that were intercepted by the Iron Dome. Hezbollah claims that it attacked and repelled Israeli soldiers attempting to infiltrate southern Lebanon through the Hadab Aita forest and inflicted casualties.[60]
- Israeli airstrikes strike Hezbollah infrastructure in Aita al-Shaab, Beit Lif and Hula.[61]
- 20 August –
- The IAF launches airstrikes on Baalbek.[62]
- Four people are killed and two others are injured by Israeli strikes in Daraya, Mount Lebanon Governorate, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. In response, Hezbollah launches drone strikes on IDF positions in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.[63]
- 21 August – Khalil al-Muqdah, a commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, is killed during an Israeli airstrike on his vehicle in Sidon.[64]
- 22 August –
- 23 August –
- 25 August – August 2024 Lebanon strikes: The IDF launches preemptive strikes on southern Lebanon.[69]
- 28 August –Three Palestinian fighters and one Hezbollah militant are killed in a drone strike on a vehicle at a checkpoint on the Lebanon–Syria border.[70]
- 29 August – Israeli airstrikes hit Hezbollah targets in Kafr Kila and Yarine.[71]
September
- 2 September – Two people are killed, including a contractor working for UNIFIL, during an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle on the Tyre-Naqoura road.[72]
- 3 September – Riad Salameh, the former governor of the Banque du Liban, is arrested amid a financial investigation.[73] He is subsequently charged with embezzling $42 million in public funds.[74]
- 4 September – A civilian is killed and seven others are injured in Israeli airstrikes and shelling in southern Lebanon.[75]
- 7 September – Three Lebanese paramedics are killed and two others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike while they were firefighting in Faroun. Two Amal militants are also killed in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah launches over 100 missiles and artillery at IDF targets in Mount Neria, Biranit, Hadab Yaroun and Raheb in retaliation.[76]
- 8 September –
- 9 September – A Hezbollah militant is killed and two civilians are injured in an Israeli airstrike in Saghbine.[79]
- 8 January – Wissam al-Tawil, 53–54, militant, senior commander of Hezbollah.
- 9 January – Ali Hussein Barji, militant.
- 17 January – Hussein Madi, 85, painter and sculptor.
- 26 February – Fadi Ibrahim, 67, actor and director
- 8 April – Pascal Suleiman, IT specialist and politician, Lebanese Forces official
- 19 May – Ali Al-Kourani, 79, Shia cleric
- 7 July – Anwar Sabbah, 90, politician
- 30 July – Fuad Shukr, 63, Hezbollah's Jihad Council member
- 12 August – Samir Chamas, 81, actor and writer
- 14 August – Georges Corm, 84, economist and author
- 25 August – Salim Al-Huss, 94, former Prime Minister (1976-1980, 1987-1990 and 1998-2000).[81]