Events in the year 2022 in

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

Incumbents

Events

January

* January 4 – 1 mother and 3 children die after inhaling toxic fumes from coal that was used as a cheap substitute for heating. * January 6 – Unknown perpetrators attacked a group of United Nation peacekeeping forces in

southern Lebanon Southern Lebanon () is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The Rashaya and Western Beqaa Districts, the southernmost distric ...

. * January 8 – Minor protests took place in

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

against Covid restrictions for the unvaccinated. * January 18 – Judge

Ghada Aoun Ghada Aoun (Arabic: غادة عون) is a Lebanese judge and Mount Lebanon's state prosecutor. While some see her as a prominent and incorruptible prosecutor, others accuse her of bias towards the President Michel Aoun of the Free Patriotic Mov ...

freezes assets belonging to Governor of

Banque du Liban Banque du Liban (BdL, ar, مصرف لبنان, English: Bank of Lebanon) is the central bank of Lebanon. It was established on August 1, 1963, and became fully operational on April 1, 1964. It is currently headed by Riad Salameh. One of the ma ...

Riad Salameh Riad Toufic Salameh (Arabic: رياض توفيق سلامة, born July 17, 1950) is the current Governor of Lebanon, Lebanon's central bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. He was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Minist ...

, amid crisis. * January 24 –

Saad Hariri Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri ( ar, سعد الدين رفيق الحريري, translit=Saʿd ad-Dīn Rafīq al-Ḥarīrī; born 18 April 1970) is a Lebanese-Saudi politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 t ...

announced that he will suspend his involvement in political activities and will not run in upcoming general elections. * January 26 – Electricity deal between Lebanon, Syria and Jordan is signed by officials. * January 31 – Lebanon Security forces claim to have uncovered 15 alleged Israeli spy networks.

February

* February 2 – Child kidnappings in Lebanon are on the rise after the kidnapping of Ryan Kanaan with a ransom of $250,000 to free him. * February 11 - Truck transporting gas explodes on the highway in Zouk Mikael. Damaging a nearby building and a jeep. No injuries and deaths were reported. * February 15 – Lebanon's central bank governor's whereabouts, Riad Salemeh, are unknown after police raided his office and two homes for corruption. * February 18 – Israel's

Iron Dome Iron Dome ( he, כִּפַּת בַּרְזֶל, Kippat Barzel) is a mobile all-weather air defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries. The system is designed to intercept and destroy short- ...

fails to intercept a

Hezbollah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...

-operated

military drone An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, colloquially shortened as drone or battlefield UAV, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance ...

from

that penetrated seventy kilometers into Israeli airspace. The drone flew for forty minutes before returning to Lebanon. Israeli jets fly at very low altitude over

in response to the incident. * February 23 – The EU deploys an

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

observation mission in Lebanon.

March

* March 21 – The Lebanese Government charges

central bank A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary union, and oversees their commercial banking system. In contrast to a commercial bank, a central ba ...

governor, Riad Salemeh, and his brother, Raja, for illicit enrichment. * March 24 –

Israel Police The Israel Police ( he, משטרת ישראל, ''Mišteret Yisra'el''; ar, شرطة إسرائيل, ''Shurtat Isrāʼīl'') is the civilian police force of Israel. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fightin ...

seize 63 weapons from

Arab Israeli The Arab citizens of Israel are the largest ethnic minority in the country. They comprise a hybrid community of Israeli citizens with a heritage of Palestinian citizenship, mixed religions (Muslim, Christian or Druze), bilingual in Arabic an ...

smuggler Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. There are various ...

s, uncovering the largest attempt to smuggle weapons from

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

April

* April 4 –

Deputy PM A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president ...

Saadeh Al Shami Saadeh Al Shami () is an economist, academic and Lebanese politician who has been serving as the deputy prime minister in the cabinet led by Najib Mikati since 10 September 2021. Biography Al Shami hails from a Lebanese Greek Orthodox family. Fr ...

says that

and its

are

bankrupt Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debt ...

. * April 12 – An

explosion An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known ...

at an Amal Movement

scout camp Scout may refer to: Youth movement *Scout (Scouting), a child, usually 10–18 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement ** Scouts (The Scout Association), section for 10-14 year olds in the United Kingdom **Scouts BSA, secti ...

Sidon Sidon ( ; he, צִידוֹן, ''Ṣīḏōn'') known locally as Sayda or Saida ( ar, صيدا ''Ṣaydā''), is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital, on the Mediterranean coast. ...

, kills one person and injures seven others. * April 23 – 6 people die and around 50 people are rescued after an overloaded boat sinks in

Tripoli, Lebanon Tripoli ( ar, طرابلس/ALA-LC: ''Ṭarābulus'', Lebanese Arabic: ''Ṭrablus'') is the largest city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Situated north of the capital Beirut, it is the capital of the North Gove ...

. * April 24 –

Energy Minister An energy minister is a position in many governments responsible for energy production and regulation, developing governmental energy policy, scientific research, and natural resources conservation. In some countries, environmental responsibilities ...

Walid Fayad Waleed (), also spelt as Walid, Oualid, or Velid, is an Arabic-language masculine given name meaning ''newborn child''. Given name Waleed *Waleed Ali, Kuwaiti footballer *Waleed Aly, Egyptian-origin Australian journalist * Waleed bin Ibrahim al-Ib ...

, is confronted and jostled by protesters while leaving a bar in

Achrafieh Achrafieh ( ar, الأشرفية) is an upper-class area in eastern Beirut, Lebanon. In strictly administrative terms, the name refers to a sector (''secteur'') centred on Sassine Square, the highest point in the city, as well as a broader quarter ...

amid crisis. * April 25 – A rocket is fired from

into

Matzuva Matzuva ( he, מַצּוּבָה), also known as Metzuba, is a kibbutz in the Western Galilee in northern Israel. Located to the south of the development town of Shlomi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In it had ...

. Israel responds by firing at targets in Lebanon.

May

* May 1 – A 3.8 magnitude earthquake is felt by the residents of

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

and Lebanese coasts. * May 3 – The

Iraqi Government The federal government of Iraq is defined under the current Constitution, approved in 2005, as an Islamic, democratic, federal parliamentary republic. The federal government is composed of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, as wel ...

lifts ban on beverage and

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

products from

. * May 6 – Lebanese diaspora

voting Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, can engage for the purpose of making a collective decision or expressing an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holde ...

begins in the Arab world and Iran with the exception of the United Arab Emirates. * May 8 – Lebanese diaspora

begins in the rest of the world. * May 15 – Lebanese voters head to the polls to elect a new session to

Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

. Preliminary counts show the

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

-backed

and its allies, who won in the previous election, losing seats while the Saudi-backed

Lebanese Forces The Lebanese Forces ( ar, القوات اللبنانية '')'' is a Lebanese Christian-based political party and former militia during the Lebanese Civil War. It currently holds 19 of the 128 seats in Lebanon's parliament and is therefore th ...

made gains. * May 20 – Two fishermen die in

while preparing dynamite sticks for fishing. * May 31 –

Nabih Berri Nabih Berri ( ar, نبيه مصطفى بري, translit=Nabīh Muṣṭafā Barriyy, links=hh; born 28 January 1938) is a Lebanese Shia politician who has been serving as Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon since 1992. He heads the Amal Moveme ...

was re-elected as speaker of the Lebanese parliament with 65 (50.78%) votes in his favor for the 7th term.

Elias Bou Saab Elias Nicolas Bou Saab ( ar, إلياس بو صعب; born 8 September 1967) is a Lebanese politician. He was a Minister of National Defense, Advisor to the President of Lebanon Michel Aoun on International Cooperation. He was elected Deputy speake ...

was elected as his deputy.

June

* June 3 – One soldier is killed and five injured in an army raid in

Baalbek Baalbek (; ar, بَعْلَبَكّ, Baʿlabakk, Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. In Greek and Roman ...

in attempt to apprehend a notorious drug lord. * June 16 – Two

members sentenced to life imprisonment by the

Special Tribunal for Lebanon The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), also referred to as the Lebanon Tribunal or the Hariri Tribunal, is a tribunal of international character applying Lebanese criminal law to carry out the investigation and prosecution of those responsib ...

for their role in the 2005 assassination of former

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Rafic Hariri Rafic Bahaa El Deen Al Hariri ( ar, رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from ...

. * June 21 – Lebanon security forces raid

governor, Riad Salemeh's, home to create

subpoena A subpoena (; also subpœna, supenna or subpena) or witness summons is a writ issued by a government agency, most often a court, to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure. There are two common types of ...

. * June 23 –

Najib Mikati Najib Azmi Mikati ( ar, نجيب عزمي ميقاتي; born 24 November 1955) is a Lebanese politician and businessman, and three-time Prime Minister of Lebanon whose current term began in September 2021. He also serves as the acting President ...

is re-elected as prime minister-designate. * June 30 – Bnoss Jounieh festival begins until July 31.

July

* July 2 – Foreign ministers of Arab countries visit Lebanon during crisis. * July 4 – People in Bnoss Jounieh festival welcome the Lebanese national basketball team to celebrate after beating Saudi Arabia by 90-60 in World cup qualifiers and qualifying to the next round. * July 6 – Police arrest juice seller who drugged and raped children. * July 13 – A Saudi Arabian opposition leader is killed in Beirut; his brothers detained. * July 24 – Miss Lebanon 2022 held in Forum de Beyrouth. * July 31 – Part of the grain silos in the Beirut Port collapses sending plume of smoke across the blast site causing people to wear face masks to avoid the smoke. ** Bnoss Jounieh festival ends.

August

* August 4 - Lebanon marks 2 years since the Beirut explosion. ** Another part of the grain silos collapses sending more smoke. * A man takes several employees hostage at a bank in

, demanding his bank savings and threatening to set himself on fire. Police officers,

soldiers A soldier is a person who is a member of an army. A soldier can be a conscripted or volunteer enlisted person, a non-commissioned officer, or an officer. Etymology The word ''soldier'' derives from the Middle English word , from Old French ...

, and intelligence agents surround the building. * August 19 – Wilfires burn in a pine forest in

Baskinta Baskinta ( ar, بسكنتا) is a Lebanon, Lebanese village situated at an altitude ranging from 1250 metres above sea level and climbs up to approximately 1800 meters of height at Qanat Bakish, making it one of the highest villages of Lebanon. It ...

at around midnight local time and continues burning overnight until the next day afternoon. * August 20 – Army and civil defense rush to the burning pine forest in

to fight off the blaze. Smoke rises all over the village. Fire spreads to 150 meters square. Helicopters fights the fire by dumping water buckets. Many trees were affected. ** As of afternoon, the fire was being extinguished. The fire was later extinguished. No one was killed or injured. ** People evacuated from Beirut due to the threat of the northern part of the grain silos collapsing. The fire brigade was also evacuated from the port. All employees were evacuated from the silos area. * August 21 – Fires in

re-ignite. * August 22 – Small part of the grain silos collapse in the morning while on fire. * August 23 – Remaining 8 silos of the northern block of the silos collapse sending a big cloud of smoke. * August 25 – Large fire breaks out in a generator in a beach resort in

Batroun Batroun ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرُون '; Syriac script: ܒܬܪܘܢ ') is a coastal city in northern Lebanon and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is the capital city of Batroun District. Etymology The name ''Batr ...

. * August 27 – Lebanese singer, Georges Al Rassi dies in a car crash on the Masnaa Border crossing.

September

* September 16 – Lebanese banks declare 3-day closures amid security concerns over protesters demand the release of bank heist detainees. * September 22 – 2022 Tartus migrant shipwreck: At least 94 people are killed when a boat carrying migrants from

capsize Capsizing or keeling over occurs when a boat or ship is rolled on its side or further by wave action, instability or wind force beyond the angle of positive static stability or it is upside down in the water. The act of recovering a vessel fro ...

s off

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

's coast. 9 people survived. Many were declared missing and some were found either dead or injured. Dead bodies were sent to nearby hospitals. 40 people are still missing as of 24 September.

October

* October 6 – A cholera case is recorded for the first time since 1993; likely caused from an outbreak in neighboring Syria. * October 9 – The Deir Ammar and Zahrani

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many p ...

s shut down in

after running out of diesel fuel, leaving the entire country without electricity. According to a government official, power is not expected to be restored for several days. * October 11 –

and

agrees to a US-brokered agreement that will allow both countries to exploit gas fields in the eastern

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, ending decades of maritime border disputes between the two nations. * October 13 – A

Cessna 172 The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is an American four-seat, single-engine, high wing, fixed-wing aircraft made by the Cessna Aircraft Company.

with two pilots crashes near Halat, Lebanon, during a training exercise. * October 14 – Six people are killed and 32 more are injured during a shooting at a protest in

, against the judge investigating the 2020 port explosion.

and

Amal Amal may refer to: * Amal (given name) * Åmål, a small town in Sweden * Amal Movement, a Lebanese political party ** Amal Militia, Amal Movement's defunct militia * Amal language of Papua New Guinea * Amal (film), ''Amal'' (film), 2007, directed ...

accused the attackers of being members of the Christian Lebanese Forces. Clashes occurred for hours afterwards between the

militia A militia () is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of r ...

s involving

sniper A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with high-precision r ...

s, pistols,

Kalashnikov rifle A Kalashnikov (Калашников) rifle is any one of a series of automatic rifles based on the original design of Mikhail Kalashnikov. They are officially known in Russian as "Avtomát Kaláshnikova" ( rus, Автома́т Кала́шник� ...

s and

rocket-propelled grenade A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is a shoulder-fired missile weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by an individual soldier, and are frequently used as anti-tank weapons. These warheads are a ...

s even after the

army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

was deployed. * October 27 –

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

summons the Lebanese ambassador over "offensive" remarks about the

war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

made by Lebanese

information minister An information minister (also called minister of information) is a position in the governments of some countries responsible for dealing with information matters; it is often linked with censorship and propaganda. Sometimes the position is given to ...

George Kurdahi George Kordahi ( ar, جورج قرداحي; born 1 May 1950) is a Lebanese Television presenter, TV presenter and former host of the Arabic version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''. Education Kordahi was educated at the Notre Dame Universit ...

. * October 29 –

recalls its ambassador to

and demands for Lebanon to reciprocate the action over "insulting" remarks about the war in Yemen made by Lebanese

. * October 30 – The Emirati foreign ministry announces that it will recall its

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

s in

and ban Emirati citizens from traveling to the country "in solidarity with"

, which recalled its ambassador to Lebanon over "insulting" remarks about the war in Yemen made by Lebanese

. * October 31 - 2023–

elects a new president of the republic at the end of Michel Aoun's 6-year tenure.

December

* December 12 – Three

Hamas Hamas (, ; , ; an acronym of , "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Bri ...

members are killed and six more injured during a dispute with

Fatah Fatah ( ar, فتح '), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ...

gunmen in Tyre,

, at the funeral of a Hamas member killed two days ago during an accidental explosion at the Burj el-Shemali camp.

Deaths

* February 3 – Joseph Hitti, Maronite Catholic

eparch Eparchy ( gr, ἐπαρχία, la, eparchía / ''overlordship'') is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity, that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity. Eparchy is governed by an ''eparch'', who is a bishop. Depending on t ...

(born 1925) * February 20 – Sami Clark, singer (born 1948) * March 6 –

Hubert Fattal Hubert Fattal (22 October 1970–6 March 2022) was a Lebanese businessman, designer and perfumer. He was the chairman of a company which had been established by his grandfather in 1897. He was murdered at his home in Mansourieh in March 2022. Bi ...

, businessperson (born 1970) * August 27 – Georges Al Rassi, singer and actor (born 1980) * September 11 –

Muhammad Ali Chamseddine Muhammad Ali Chamseddine (15 October 1942 – 11 September 2022; in Arabic: محمد علي شمس الدين) was a Lebanese poet and writer. His work was influenced by the poet Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (1315– ...

, writer and poet (born 1942) * September 20 –

Tanios El Khoury Tanios El Khoury (4 May 1930 – 20 September 2022) was an eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon. Life El Khoury was born in Saghbine, Lebanon. On 14 June 1958, he received his ordination to the priesthood and was incardinated in the ...

, Maronite Catholic prelate, eparch of

(1996–2005) (born 1930) * September 21 –

Paul-Emile Saadé Paul-Emile Saadé (9 July 1933 – 21 September 2022) was Lebanese Maronite Catholic prelate who was Emeritus Maronite Eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Batroun. Life Paul-Emile Saadé was born in Ehden, Mount Lebanon on 9 July 1933. ...

, Maronite Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of

Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ� ...

(1986–1999) and eparch of

(1999–2011) (born 1933) * October 2 – Camille Ziade, 79, politician, MP (1992–2000) (born 1943) * October 7 –

Paul-Mounged El-Hachem Paul-Mounged El-Hachem ( ar, بول منجد الهاشم; 8 September 1934 – 7 October 2022) was a Lebanese Maronite prelate of the Catholic Church. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See as apostolic nuncio to Kuwait, Bahrain, ...

. Maronite Catholic prelate, eparch of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar (1995–2005) (born 1934) * November 22 – Romeo Lahoud, theatre director and composer (born 1931)

References

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