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1978 · Lebanon History

• 7 February 1978Fayadieh attack
• 26 February 1978The Lebanese Revolutionary Army Movement
• 11 March 1978The Coastal Road operation (Dalal Mughrabi)On 11 March 1978 a Fatah group that had set out by sea from Lebanon landed on a beach near Haifa under the command of…
• 14 March 1978The Litani invasionOn 14 March 1978 Israel invaded South Lebanon up to the Litani with some 25,000 troops; about a thousand were killed…
• 14 March 1978Occupation of KhiyamThe collaborator Saad Haddad's militia entered the town for good and imposed full control over it after the start of…
• 17 March 1978Khiyam massacreMembers of the collaborator Saad Haddad's militia carried out a large massacre there, killing 61 elderly and infirm…
• 19 March 1978Resolution 425The adoption of Resolution 425 and the deployment of the United Nations in the South.
• 23 March 1978UNIFIL arrives at NaqouraOn 23 March 1978 the first units of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon arrived in application of Resolution…
• 28 March 1978Assassination of Wadie Haddad
• 19 April 1978Haddad's militia shells UNIFIL headquarters
• 9 May 1978Kaukaba clash between the Norwegian battalion and the fedayeen
• 7 June 1978Joud al-Bayeh killed in ZghartaOn 7 June 1978 Joud al-Bayeh, the Kataeb official who had tried to open a party office in Zgharta, was killed by gunmen…
• 13 June 1978Ehden massacreThe killing of Tony Suleiman Frangieh with his family by the Lebanese Forces (Samir Geagea); the idea was an Israeli…
• 13 June 1978Handover of the border strip to Saad Haddad's militiaOn 13 June 1978 Israel completed its withdrawal from the South but handed the border strip to the collaborator Saad…
• 28 June 1978Syrian retaliation at Qaa
• 1 July 1978The Hundred Days' WarFrom 1 July to 7 October 1978 the Syrian deterrent forces shelled Ashrafieh, Ain el-Remmaneh and East Beirut after…
• 31 August 1978Disappearance of Sayyed Musa al-Sadr
• 17 September 1978The Camp David AccordsOn 17 September 1978 Sadat and Begin signed the framework for peace at Camp David under Carter's sponsorship, followed…
• 6 October 1978Security Council resolution to halt the Syrian shellingOn 6 October 1978 the Security Council adopted Resolution 436 calling for an immediate ceasefire in Beirut after the…
• 15 October 1978Beiteddine conferenceFrom 15 to 17 October 1978 the foreign ministers of the states taking part in the Arab Deterrent Force met at…
• 1 November 1978Assassination of Captain Samir al-Ashkar