1987 · Lebanon History
- 1 January 1987Last signs of life from Ron Arad: three letters and two photos
- 2 January 1987Capture of the Barachit and Beit Yahoun positions and an M113
- 20 January 1987Terry Waite kidnappedOn 20 January 1987 Terry Waite, the envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury who had come to negotiate the hostages'…
- 24 January 1987Beirut University College professors kidnapped
- 6 February 1987Storming of the Ali al-Taher positionOn 6 February 1987 the mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance stormed the Ali al-Taher position, destroyed it completely…
- 13 February 1987Relief trucks shelled at the entrance of Burj al-Barajneh
- 15 February 1987Flag War: Amal driven out of West Beirut
- 17 February 1987Assassination of Hussein Mroueh, then Mahdi Amel
- 22 February 1987The Syrian army enters West BeirutOn 22 February 1987 some 7,000 Syrian troops entered West Beirut at the request of Muslim leaders to end the "flag war"…
- 24 February 1987Fathallah barracks massacreOn 24 February 1987, two days after the Syrian army entered West Beirut, a Syrian force stormed Hezbollah's Fathallah…
- 18 April 1987Shumariya and Alman battles: 19 resistance fighters killed
- 30 May 1987Operation "Badr al-Kubra" on Jabal Safi and JezzineOn 30 May 1987 the Islamic Resistance launched its widest attacks up to then: hundreds of resistance fighters took four…
- 1 June 1987Assassination of Rashid KaramiOn 1 June 1987 prime minister Rashid Karami was killed by a bomb planted in the military helicopter carrying him from…
- 25 November 1987The Night of the Gliders
- 9 December 1987The first intifadaOn 9 December 1987 the first intifada broke out in the Jabalia camp after an Israeli truck ran over four workers, and…
- 14 December 1987Founding of HamasOn 14 December 1987, with the outbreak of the first intifada, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin issued the first statement in the…
- December 1987The lira passes 500 to the dollarIn December 1987 the dollar passed 500 lira, from 87 a year earlier; salaries and savings melted away, a wave of…