1999 · Lebanon History
- 1 January 1999Support Committee iftar: 1,352 operations in 1998 and an outstretched hand to the Lahoud era
- 9 February 1999Ambush of a Givati unit
- 23 February 1999Jabbour ambush: paratroop commander Eitan Balhasan killed
- 26 February 1999The Arnoun uprisingIn February 1999 Israel annexed the town of Arnoun, next to Beaufort castle, to the border strip with a fence;…
- 28 February 1999Israel's southern commander killedOn 28 February 1999 General Erez Gerstein, commander of the Israeli liaison unit in South Lebanon, was killed by a…
- 26 April 1999Ashura 1999: "wait for the resistance at the doors of your houses and your bedrooms"On 26 April 1999 (the tenth of Muharram 1420, coinciding with the anniversary of Grapes of Wrath) Sayyed Hassan…
- 27 April 1999Twenty attacks along the front and Sojod stormed again
- 15 May 1999The Beit Yahoun operationOn 15 May 1999, the anniversary of the Nakba, the Islamic Resistance stormed the fortified Beit Yahoun position in the…
- 17 May 1999Barak elected on a pledge to leave Lebanon within a yearOn 17 May 1999 Ehud Barak won the Israeli premiership over Netanyahu on an election promise to take the army out of…
- 17 May 1999Beit Yahoun reception speech: "Barak is weaker than a spider's web"On 17 May 1999, the day of the Israeli elections, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah received in the southern suburbs the men who…
- 3 June 1999Withdrawal from JezzineThe withdrawal of the Israeli army and Lahd's army from the Jezzine area, abandoning all the positions.
- 8 June 1999Four judges assassinatedOn 8 June 1999 gunmen stormed a courtroom in the Sidon courthouse and killed four judges during a trial session; the…
- 21 June 1999"Towards liberation": no trust in Barak's pledge
- 24 June 1999Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona: first Israeli civilian deaths since 1995
- 24 June 1999SLA shelling kills a civilian in the south
- 24 June 1999Raids on the power stationsOn 24 June 1999 Israeli aircraft bombed the Jamhour and Bsalim power stations and bridges in the Bekaa, cutting power…
- 16 August 1999Assassination of commander Ali Hassan Deeb "Abu Hassan Salameh" in SidonOn 16 August 1999 Ali Hassan Deeb, commander of the Islamic Resistance in the Sidon area, was martyred by two bombs…
- 30 December 1999The Ammar Hammoud martyrdom operation
- 31 December 1999The Dinniyeh eventsFrom 31 December 1999 to 5 January 2000 the army fought battles in the Dinniyeh highlands against a Salafi group led by…
- 31 December 1999Quds Day 1999: "the enemy before you is weaker than a spider's web", to the Palestinians before the liberationOn 31 December 1999, the last day of the century, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah opened the Quds Day speech with the verse…