January 12, 1985
The army deployed on the
coastal road South of Beirut and in the Iqlim EL Kharroub
after the withdrawal of the Lebanese Forces and the PSP
militiamen.
January 12, 1985
The army deployed on the
coastal road South of Beirut and in the Iqlim EL Kharroub
after the withdrawal of the Lebanese Forces and the PSP
militiamen.
January 19, 1985 Armed confrontations and
artillery duels on the axes Kfarchima-Choueifat and
Aitate-Souk El Gharb, extended to the residential areas.
Four persons were killed and seven others wounded by shells
that fell on the regions of Beit-Mery, Bsous, Ain Saadeh and
their surroundings.
January 21, 1985 Moustapha Saad, leader of
the Nasserist Popular Organization, was seriously wounded in
Saida by a car bomb that killed his daughter.
March 9, 1985 opposition ministers Berri and
Joumblatt met in Bickfaya with Presidents Gemayel and
Karameh. The smoothing of the relations led to a promise of
a cooling down on the Souk El Gharb front. During the
meeting, the bombs were continuing to fall on Hazmieh and
Achrafieh and kidnappings of innocent civilians were still
taking place on various crossing roads in Beirut.
Aley and other villages were captured
by the Syrians.
Destroying, looting and burning all Christian homes,
killing civilians. Many of the Lebanese Forces where
captured and executed.
Lebanese army sent thousand of soldier to Souk El Garb, and Dahar El Wahech to stop the Syrian army
Fierce
battles took place between the Lebanese Army and the Syrian Army in
Souk El Garb, and Dahar El Wahech.
March
1985 Tens of thousands of Christians from Iklim El_Kharroub and the eastern
part of Saida. The Palestinians and Lebanese Druze laid
siege to, pillaged and burned over twenty Christian
villages. Walid Joumblatt, Yasser Arafat and Syrian
officers, planned these massacres.
April 24, 1985 the
Lebanese Forces fighters started to withdraw from Saida. The
Israelis continued their withdrawal in the West of the Bekaa
region; only 12% of the Lebanese territory remained under
their control.
April 26, 1985 The Islamic-Progressive militias with the
help of Syrian forces rushed into Christian villages next to Saida. Thousands of families were forced out of their homes.
Tens of Christian villages in the Iqlim El Kharroub and East
of Saida were looted, vandalized, and burned. The State was
more powerless than ever, the Lebanese Army being unable to
stop the massacres.
April 30, 1985
Attack on all Christian villages in eastern part
of Saida. It was hell in Beirut. Insane bombing continued in
both sectors of the capital, crossing points had been closed
illustrating the gravity of the situation, while 20,000
Christians from South
killing civilians and burning homes and churches
June 17, 1985 The
Damascus agreement put an end to the Camps War that caused,
in four weeks, 700 deaths and 2,500 injured.
June 27, 1985 Elias Sarkis, former President
of the Lebanese Republic, died at 61 years old. He was
suffering from a disease that paralyzed his lymphatic and
nervous system. Grandiose funerals were organized in Mar
Takla church in Hazmieh.
July 30, 1985 Syria delivered 46 tanks to
the Amal movement while surprise bombardments continued in
Beirut and civilians were still being kidnapped on the
crossing points
August 2, 1985 The Israeli aviation
destroyed the headquarters of the Syrian Nationalist Party
in Chtaura after the multiplication of car bombs in South
Lebanon.
August 14, 1985 A new massacre occurred in
Sad El Bauchrieh where a car bomb exploded causing 12 dead
and 115 injured persons.
August 17, 1985
A car bomb in front of the Melki supermarket in Antelias killed 40 persons and wounded
122 others. Most of the victims died carbonized or
asphyxiated.
August 19, 1985 Death was moving around in
West Beirut. Two car bombs exploded at Caracol-Druze and
Ghobeireh within half-an-hour, resulting in 29 dead and a
hundred injured. Several Christians were kidnapped on
various crossing points right after the explosions.
August 20, 1985 Shells fell on Beirut in
each and every neighborhood. Thirty persons were killed and
117 wounded, while tens of houses were destroyed. A car bomb
exploded in Tripoli killing 48 persons and injuring 100
others.
September 4, 1985 14 dead and 74 injured
persons were reported in Zahleh as a result of a car bomb
explosion. Three days later, the Syrians invaded the town.
November 13, 1985 The Eastern regions went
on strike to protest against the suicide truck killing
attempt perpetrated against the leaders of the Lebanese
Front gathered in the St Georges convent in Awkar. The
assault caused 4 dead and 36 wounded, including Elie Karameh,
Edouard Honein, and Fouad Ephrame Boustany who were slightly
injured.
November 19, 1985 For the first time since
1982, a duel between Israeli and Syrian airplanes took place
in the Lebanese sky. Two Syrian Migs were shot down. The
Syrians decided after this incident to install Sam-2
ground-air missiles on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
January 1, 1986
It is a bad beginning of the
year for the Lebanese Forces. A conflict emerged within the
party, causing exchanges of rockets and gunshots in Zalka
and Nahr El Mott. Ten persons were killed or wounded. The
signature by Elie Hobeika of the tripartite agreement in
Damascus, triggered the fight.
January 14, 1986 The eleventh Gemayel-Assad
summit was a total failure.
January 15, 1986
In eight hours of violent
fights, 100 persons were killed, and the chief of staff of
the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, evinced Elie Hobeika
sending him into exile.
January 16, 1986 Confrontations started on
the Northern Metn front. The shells kept falling
intermittently during several months on Bickfaya, the Metn
and the Kesrouan. The population in these regions was living
in the fear of car bombs and blind bombardments.
- On Tuesday,
January 21,
1986 ,
11.35 hours, a car bomb exploded in Furn_El_Chebback [East
Beirut], leaving 30 dead and at least 132 injured.
February 3, 1986 Death hit once again. A
bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded in Jdeideh killing four
persons and wounding 22 others.
February 12, 1986 A bomb exploded in Ain El
Remmaneh next to the entrance of a building where a Phalange
Party office was located. Two persons lost their lives and
17 others were injured.
February 24, 1986 Islamists killed a
communist leader, Souheil Tawileh, in Mazraa. Four days
earlier, another communist leader, Khalil Nous, was
assassinated. Meanwhile, terrorist-killing attempts
continued in the Eastern regions. A car bomb exploded on the
Salomeh intersection, causing 4 dead and 16 injured.
March 4, 1986 Artillery duels were raging
between the Eastern and Western sectors of the capital,
killing tens of persons, and wounding hundreds.
March 9, 1986 The black series continued.
Terrorism hit this time Jeetaoui where a car bomb killed 3
persons and wounded 40 others.
Four French journalists from Antenne 2 were kidnapped in Bir
El Abed.
March 26, 1986 A car stuffed with explosives
and inflammable material exploded in Achrafieh, while a
timing bomb ravaged a Phalangist office in Tahouita.
Together, the two explosions killed 10 persons and wounded
80 others. The bombardment of the Eastern regions continued
in the meantime.
April 8, 1986 Suddenly, horror hit the heart
of Jounieh. A car bomb exploded killing 11 persons and
wounding 89 others, spreading an indescribable panic and
ravaging four residential buildings.
April 10, 1986 There are no limits for
barbarian crimes. A car bomb exploded in Saida killing three
persons and wounding 35 others.
May 9, 1986
The opening of the airport of Halate caused discontent in
the country. A few minutes after President Gemayel's
airplane landed in Halate coming from a three-day trip in
Tunisia, the airport was severely bombed.
May 21, 1986 On the eve of the meeting in
Dar El Fatwa between the Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir
and the Mufti of the Republic Sheikh Hassan Khaled,
artillerymen unleashed their guns, killing 30 persons and
wounding 60 others. The meeting was postponed.
On
May 23, 1986,
A new car bomb exploded in Sin El Fil early in the morning,
when the schools were opening their doors. Seven persons
were killed, 111 were wounded, and 3 had disappeared. A
serious gas shortage hit West Beirut while the bombardments
continued in both sectors of the capital.
July 4, 1986 200 Commandos of the
special Syrian forces helped the Lebanese Army and the
Internal Security Forces to maintain security in Beirut.
July 19, 1986 A killing attempt was
perpetrated against a bus transporting AUB students and
employees from West to East Beirut. Four dead including
three students and five wounded including two doctors were
reported. This massacre constituted a challenge to the
pacification plan.
July 29, 1986
a
Mercedes exploded on the Wadih Nahim Street in Ein el
Remmaneh, a Beirut suburb, with 31 dead and 128 injured.
July 30, 1986
A
booby trapped Mercedes exploded in Barbir, West Beirut. The
result: 22 dead and 163 injured. Syria and Elie Hobeika
instigated these terrorist cases.
September 27, 1986
500 fighters led by Elie Hobeika entered Achrafieh where
they fought ferociously with Geagea's men. The Lebanese
Forces and the army rebuffed the infiltration. 65 persons
lost their lives in the operation while 200 others were
wounded.
August 8, 1986
After three explosions in
Dora, Jal el Dib and Bourj Hammoud, terrorism moved to Tarik
Jdideh where a car bomb killed 13 persons and wounded 106
others.
August 14, 1986
A car parked next to a
hospital in Dora exploded killing 24 persons and wounding 84
others.
September 17, 1986
an explosion took place in the Rue de Rennes in Paris, in
front of the doors of the Tati store. Three women and two
men were killed, and over 52 were injured. The French Secret
Services accused Colonel Ghazi Kanaan of acting as the
terrorist chief. Colonel Kanaan manipulated the killers
within a framework of operations determined jointly by Iran
and Libya under the aegis of Damascus. The operation having
concluded successfully, Colonel Kanaan was promoted to the
rank of General.
September 1986
Colonel Christian Gouttiire, French military attachi in
Lebanon was killed near the French embassy in Mar Takla, in
the region of East Beirut. In Damascus, far more rapidly
than was their custom, the Syrians hastened to condemn the
murder of the French military attachi.
(November 1986)
Syrian persecution of the
residents of Tripoli On
November 22, 1986, the Syrian army kidnapped hundreds of
civilians from the city of Tripoli (largest in Northern
Lebanon) in retaliation for attacks against Syrian military
and intelligence positions. The bodies of many who were
kidnapped were found in the streets of Tripoli and its
suburbs. A week later, the Syrian Special forces liquidated
34 residents of Tripoli on charges of "opposition to the
Syrians."
December 19, 1986
Violent combats opposed in
Tripoli the Syrian Army to Islamist militiamen. The fights
made 12 dead and 35 injuries. The Syrian Army launched an
Islamists hunting at the end of which one of the major
leaders of the Islamic Unification Movement was arrested
October 16, 1986 During a raid against
Palestinian positions, an Israeli F16 was shot in Saida. One
of the two Israeli pilots was captured while Israel saved
the second in a helicopter operation.
(October 1986)
Assassination of Sheikh Soubhi Saleh by Syria
Syria's agents
murdered the head of the Islamic Shiite Higher Council,
Sheikh Soubhi Saleh, who was shot in broad daylight on
October 7, 1986.
January 7, 1987 President Camille Chamoun
escaped by miracle from a killing attempt. A car bomb
exploded on the River cornice when his convoy was passing
by. 4 persons were killed and 37 others were wounded. The
President was injured in his arm.
March 19, 1987 2 persons were killed and 3
others wounded in a criminal explosion early in the
afternoon in Zalka.
March 28, 1987 An anti-Syrian assault in Ramlet El Baida constituted the most serious incident since
the entry of Syrian troops in West Beirut on February 22nd.
April 8, 1987 The Souk El Gharb front flared
up while the Syrian army was achieving its deployment around
the camps in Beirut.
May 8, 1987 An Israeli raid on Ain-el
Heloueh and Mieh-Mieh Palestinian camps kills 7 persons and
wounds 34.
June 1, 1987
The Prime Minister Rachid
Karameh was assassinated, torn to shreds by the explosion on
the helicopter that was supposed to take him from Tripoli to
West-Beirut. However, his post as Chief of the Cabinet did
not remain vacant: Selim Hoss was designated by presidential
decree as the interim Chief of Government.
June 17, 1987 Walid Joumblatt, leader of the
PSP, and Nabih Berri, leader of the Amal militia, become
reconciled under the aegis of the Syrian Vice-President
Abdel-Halim Khaddam, and publish an agreement for fighting
in 7 points.
August 7, 1987 President Camille Chamoun
dies from a heart attack. In a communiqué, The American
Department of State emphasizes that 'Camille Chamoun was the
most eminent politician in Lebanon'
The combat returned to
Beirut in 1987, with
Palestinians, leftists, and Druze fighters allied against
Amal, eventually drawing further Syrian intervention.
September 20, 1987 700 PSP combattants PSP and about 100
activists from the Communist Party get ready to go to Libya
in order to fight with the Lybians against the Army of Tchad
September 24, 1987 Father Andre Masse is
assassinated close to Saida. He was head of the USJ
(Saint-Joseph University) section in South-Lebanon.
November 16, 1987 Sa Saida city went through a day of combats
and bombing, killing according to a first toll, 6 people and
injuring 40. The confrontation was between Palestinian
combatants and the Nasserian Popular Organization's
militiamen.
Since the
beginning of 1987>, the tension between Joumblatt and
Berri was reaching its apex. For over a year, the two rival
militias shared everything in West Beirut, thefts,
racketeering and crimes. This tension culminated in the most
violent fighting ever seen in West Beirut. These fights,
well orchestrated by the Syrians, lasted for a long time,
with neither of the two militias managing to gain the upper
hand.
August 1987
Assassination of Mohammad Choucair by Syria Dr. Mohammad Choucair, an
advisor to Lebanese President Amine Gemayel was killed
inside his home in the Syrian controlled part of West Beirut
on August 2, 1987.
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