2024 in Lebanon

Events in the year 2024 in Lebanon.

Events
Ongoing: Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present).

January

 * 2 January – Assassination of Saleh al-Arouri: Israel conducts an airstrike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, resulting in the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau.
 * 8 January – Israel assassinates Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy commander of Hezbollah's Redwan Force, in Majdel Selm.
 * 9 January – Hezbollah launches a drone attack on the Israel Defense Force (IDF) Northern Command headquarters in Safed, Israel, marking its deepest incursion into Israeli territory since the outbreak of hostilities. In retaliation, Israel assassinates Ali Hussein Barji, the commander of Hezbollah's air force in Southern Lebanon.

February

 * 8 February
 * An IDF drone targets a car in Nabatieh. Israeli media reports that Abbas al-Dabs, a regional Hezbollah commander, is assassinated in the attack.
 * Veterans protesting outside the Lebanese parliament and the Prime Minister's residence are met with tear gas by security forces.
 * 11 February – A five-story building collapses in Choueifat.
 * 14 February – A rocket attack from Lebanon against a military base kills a person and injures others in Safed, Israel, while Israeli airstrikes kill three civilians in Souaneh and a Hezbollah fighter in Aadchit, in southern Lebanon; eleven others are wounded. Seven people are killed in a rocket attack on an apartment building in Nabatieh.
 * 26 February – Israel Air Force (IAF) jets conduct strikes on Hezbollah positions.

March

 * 2 March – An IDF strike on a car in the coastal road of Naqoura kills a senior Hezbollah official and two other members of Hezbollah's Imam Hussein Division. It is reported that among them was the grandson of Hassan Nasrallah.


 * 4 March
 * An anti-tank missile from Lebanon kills an Indian foreign worker and injures seven others in Margaliot, Israel.
 * Three volunteer rescue workers are killed in an attack on an Islamic Health Authority center in Odaisseh.
 * 5 March – Two Hezbollah members and a woman are killed in an IDF raid in Hula in response to the attack on 4 March.
 * 26 March – The IAF launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets near the towns of Ras Baalbek and Hermel in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, killing at least three Hezbollah members.

April

 * 8 April – Killing of Pascal Suleiman: Pascal Suleiman, a Lebanese Forces coordinator in the Byblos District, is abducted and murdered by a Syrian gang in a car theft. In response, activists block roads and attack Syrian refugees demanding them to leave the country.
 * 10 April – A man sanctioned by the United States for smuggling money to Iranian-backed groups is found killed in Beit Mery.
 * 16 April – The IDF conducts an airstrike and assassinates Ismail Yusuf Baz, the commander of Hezbollah's coastal sector in Lebanon.
 * 23 April – An IAF airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine.
 * 30 April – An explosion and subsequent fire at a Beirut restaurant kills nine people.

May

 * 5 May – Israeli air raids in Meiss Ej Jabal cause "massive destruction," according to a Lebanese state-run agency, killing four civilians and wounding two others.  In response, Hezbollah fires dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets towards Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.
 * 16 May – An Lebanese Army raid to arrest drug traffickers in the Shatila refugee camp leads to the death of one and the injury of another.
 * 31 May – A medic is killed and another injured during an Israeli airstrike against an ambulance in Naqoura.

June

 * 5 June – 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting: Three alleged members of ISIS attack the U.S embassy in the Awkar suburb of Beirut. The Lebanese Army captures one suspect, who is of Syrian nationality, and kills another.
 * 6 June – Hezbollah strikes an Iron Dome battery in Ramot Naftali, Israel.
 * 9 June – Two people are killed in Israeli airstrikes near Aitaroun according to the National News Agency.
 * 12 June – Israel kills three Hezbollah fighters and Taleb Abdullah, a senior commander, in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah retaliates by launching over 250 rockets towards northern Israel, the most the group has sent in the war.
 * 17 June – Hezbollah commander Muhammad Ahmed Ayoub is allegedly killed in an Israeli airstrike in Selaa, with further strikes occurring against Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon.
 * 19 June:
 * Hezbollah announces that an Israeli strike killed three of its fighters.
 * Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah threatens Cyprus if it allows Israel to use its airports and bases for military exercises.

July

 * 3 July –
 * Senior Hezbollah field commander Mohammed Nasser was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tyre.
 * Hezbollah launches a barrage of at least 100 Katyusha rockets, towards northern Israel, targeting Israeli military positions, in retaliation for the killing of Nasser.
 * 4 July – Hezbollah launches at least 200 rockets and a swarm of drones at ten Israeli military sites and threatens to expand its targeting range, in retaliation for the killing of Mohammed Nasser, a top Hezbollah commander.
 * 9 July – Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Syria killing two Israelis.
 * 15 July – An Israeli airstrike on Bint Jbeil, kills three civilians and injures three others. Israel's military says that its fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area.
 * 16 July – Three Syrian children are killed by an Israeli airstrike on the village of Umm al-Tut in southern Lebanon, while two others are killed during a strike on the Kfar Tebnit-Khardali road.

Holidays
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 * 1 January – New Year's Day
 * 6 January – Epiphany and Armenian Christmas
 * 9 February – St. Maroun Day
 * 25 March – Annunciation Day
 * 29 March – Good Friday
 * 31 March – Easter Sunday
 * 10 April – Eid al-Fitr
 * 1 May – Labour Day
 * 25 May – Liberation and Resistance Day
 * 17 June – Eid al-Adha
 * 7 July – Islamic New Year
 * 15 August – Assumption Day
 * 16 September – The Prophet's Birthday
 * 22 November – Lebanese Independence Day
 * 25 December – Christmas Day

Deaths

 * 8 January – Wissam al-Tawil, 53–54, militant, senior commander of Hezbollah.
 * 9 January – Ali Hussein Barji, militant.
 * 17 January – Hussein Madi, 85, painter and sculptor.
 * 26 February – Fadi Ibrahim, 67, actor and director
 * 8 April – Pascal Suleiman, IT specialist and politician, Lebanese Forces official
 * 19 May – Ali Al-Kourani, 79, Shia cleric