أيار (مايو) عام ١٩٧٦ .. حرب لبنان _ صور _ وثائق _ أحداث

**Ramia Hassan** · 08-27-2024, 07:27 PM

May 1976.. Lebanon War _ Photos _ Documents _ Events

May:

5/1/76: Brown returns to Beirut and meets with French Ambassador Argo and then with Saeb Salam and Salam says: Brown has no intention of exerting pressure - War on all fronts, especially in Beirut and the suburbs (54 dead, 116 wounded) - Sadat holds Lebanese leaders primarily responsible and praises the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians "Wafa" praises Sadat's speech.

5/2/76: Tensions return between Jumblatt and the National Movement and between Damascus, Asem Qanso violently attacks Jumblatt - Chamoun discusses a ceasefire with Gemayel and accuses the left of sabotage - The National Movement calls for implementing the Damascus Agreement and stresses the need to extend the military truce - The Saudi Foreign Minister visits Kuwait suddenly and conveys a message from Khaled to the King of Kuwait. Continued escalation of fighting in Beirut, the Mountain and the North.

76/5/3: Jumblatt considers the presidential elections fateful - Maronite summit considers the battle between two candidates with no third - Charles Helou calls for limited intervention by the United Nations - The Union of Working People's Forces attacks the divisive forces that postponed the election session. Al-Sadr: Returning to the House of Representatives is evidence that the war did not topple the regime - Damascus newspapers: Brown's return aims to sabotage political efforts for a solution - The military committee seeks to stop the artillery shelling at a time when the shelling war continues madly (90) dead and 250 wounded).

76/5/4: The National Movement returns to welcoming any Arab effort, and considers the conflict linked to the Palestinian cause, and attacks the American policy to strike the resistance, and praises the position of the Soviet Union in its statement on the Middle East - Edde calls for holding the session and attacks Arabization - Brown meets with Karami, and with Jumblatt who said that America has no candidate, and Brown returned to stop the deterioration, as he said - An American official fears the military deterioration that may lead to a regional war Amin al-Hafez after visiting Damascus: Syria's concern is security and stability - Waldheim: The United Nations cannot intervene as the crisis is internal - Shells and missiles cover Beirut (70) dead and wounded) - The Liberation Army is stationed in the markets and preparing to reach the museum - The road to Damascus. 5/76/5: The Phalangists in Damascus (Saadeh and Pakradouni), and Gemayel calls on the Arabs to be more open - Akkar bloc supports Sarkis - The modern Soviet era: The resistance has become a target for imperialist conspiracies - 12 shells on Beirut airport, and shells in the north disturb the relative calm that Brown worked hard for.

5/76/6: Arafat visits Damascus to meet with officials - The Phalangist delegation returns from Damascus after a meeting with Assad, and confirms that the session must be held on time - Parliamentary blocs try to postpone the session (Edde, Salam, Skaff, Jumblatt blocs and independent deputies Brown meets with Maronite leaders - Syrian Minister of Information Ahmad Iskandar Ahmad: Syria will exert its efforts to achieve security and stability in Lebanon and protect the resistance. George Hawi (LM of the Communist Party) attacks the Ahdab Movement - Souvenargue: France's duty is to avoid the explosion of a country that it helped create - Calm on most fronts.

7/5/7: On the eve of the presidential election session, the security situation deteriorated in Beirut, the suburbs and the mountain. Shells cover Beirut, especially the Museum-Mansour Palace axis. The National Movement calls for boycotting the session, and calls for a general strike and a comprehensive popular movement due to the many interventions. Dabastan discusses the situation with Kissinger and the possibility of sending French forces to Lebanon. Gaddafi calls for joining the Lebanese Arab Army and for a single leadership with the National Movement. - Maariv: 5 Lebanese entered Israel from Cyprus.

76/5/8: Elias Sarkis is elected President of the Republic as the sole candidate with a majority of 63, then 66 in the second round out of 69. The election was held under a hail of bullets and shells. Candidate Raymond Edde did not attend. Sarkis appeals via radio and television calling for stopping the bleeding and saying that there will be no peace in the region except by restoring the rights of the Palestinian people. The National Movement rejects the result. Ahmed Al-Khatib wants to change the regime, not the people. Al-Murabitun: We will study the circumstances of the election and this, Black Saturday. New - Damascus Radio: Sarkis understands politics and senior management - Hussein arrives in Damascus at the head of a Jordanian delegation - Clashes near the Carlton between the National Movement and one of the organizations - The shelling war continues (35 dead and 40 wounded).

76/5/9: Jumblatt: We will continue to confront the siege - Zuhair Mohsen: The election is a fatal blow to the partition plan - Contradictory reactions to Sarkis' election - The Lebanese Forces supported by Barakat's army attack the Aintoura - Baskinta - Sannine axis - and Tripoli witnesses local clashes.

76/5/10: The US State Department expresses its happiness at the election of a new president - Mahmoud Riad: The League presented a practical formula that has the approval of Egypt and Saudi Arabia to address the situation in Lebanon Abu al-Lutf explains to the Arab ambassadors the resistance's commitment to the Damascus Agreement - Jumblatt confirms that Sarkis contacted him - Gemayel reiterates his demand for the resistance to abandon the left - The joint statement of the Assad. Hussein summit towards establishing unity between Syria and Jordan. Kissinger: Any negotiations will require Israel to exchange land for a political settlement - The explosion of the missile war in Beirut and the suburbs, and the attack of the Zghartawis on the national sites.

76/5/11: The National Movement: The election of Sarkis is not a valid entry point to resolve the crisis - Brown. National sites. The American envoy announces in a press conference: It is impossible for any party to win militarily, Lebanon will become a state of confrontation, what is required is reconciliation and striving towards new goals of reform and social justice - Saudi news: The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait and Syria will meet in Riyadh next June - Clashes between organizations with opposing positions - The missile war continues.

12/5/76: Jumblatt denounces the fighting between brothers in Tripoli and praises Sarkis, but he did not come within its historical framework, and says that he is in favor of Arabizing the crisis, but the communists rejected that from the beginning, as did Moscow - Coordination between the National Movement and the Lebanese Arab Army The Mufti expresses his pain over the fighting between brothers in arms - Gemayel considers that the issue is not internal and calls for bringing in sister forces - Assad sends a telegram congratulating Sarkis and confirms the continuation of support for fraternal relations, the security and unity of Lebanon and the defense of the Palestinian cause. Iraq expresses concern over the increasing deterioration in Lebanon - Continued security deterioration: shells in the capital and suburbs, a new front in Ayoun al-Siman - Faraya, the situation explodes in Zahle.

**Ramia Hassan** · 08-27-2024, 07:31 PM

76/5/13: A statement by the leadership of the Palestinian revolution confirms its keenness on the Damascus agreement, the ceasefire, and the transition to a political solution, and accuses the isolationist side of military escalation. It confirms the cohesion of the resistance and the national movement - A statement by the national movement warns against a national faction singling it out to strike it - The two statements hint at the situation of the Liberation Army - Sarkis receives Gemayel and the Phalange deputies, and Gemayel calls for a deterrent force - An Islamic summit in Aramoun - Damascus: We will not allow the presence of foreign forces in Lebanon - About 100 dead and 200 wounded in the military escalation and clashes.

76/5/14: The Liberation Army withdraws from the areas of clashes in Tripoli in response to the leadership of the resistance - A meeting of the military committee announces ceasefire No. 42, and representatives of the national movement boycott the meeting - The dead and wounded exceed one hundred in the continuation of the fighting despite agreement No. 42.

76/5/15: Al-Sa’iqa responds to the National Movement, expressing its readiness to reach an understanding if the parties back down from their wrong positions - Al-Sadr confirms Syria’s response to the message he carried from the Aramoun Summit and says: The Syrians assured him that their armed forces in Lebanon are at his disposal. Aramoun Summit - Arafat travels to Damascus - Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Salam Jalloud arrives in Damascus to discuss the Arab situation - May 15 Festival and speakers: Jumblatt, Hawatmeh, Ahmed Al-Khatib, Abu Iyad - Clashes in Tripoli have stopped. Military escalation continues in most of Beirut’s axes and regions.

76/5/16: The Presidency of the Republic denies what Al-Sadr said about Syria guaranteeing Franjieh's resignation. Karami calls on Franjieh to resign immediately - Jumblatt attacks Karami and denies the National Movement's approval of Franjieh's document - Syrian Minister of Information Ahmad Iskandar Ahmad: Syria's position towards Lebanon was and still is a principled position based on stopping the fighting, protecting the resistance and preserving. French President: We are ready for the unity of Lebanon, its land and people. To provide our contribution if necessary to consolidate security - Edouard Saab, editor-in-chief of Orient Le Jour, was killed by a sniper near the museum - Abu Al-Lutf: The Syrian initiative was crowned with success and any Arab initiative is necessary now - Lieutenant Colonel Abu Bakr Younes: The Libyan revolution will stand by all progressive and resistant forces. Hundreds of shells turned Sunday into: A Black Sunday in Beirut (200) dead and 400 wounded). 76/5/17: Jalloud and Arafat arrive in Beirut and meet with Mufni, Karami, the resistance and the parties. The first working meeting between Franjieh and Sarkis - Gemayel is optimistic about the Egyptian rapprochement

Syrian - Kissinger: The Lebanon war hindered negotiations on the Middle East - Former US Secretary of Defense Schlesinger: America should have sent its forces to Lebanon - Blowing up Al-Asaad's house in Nabatieh after burning his palace in Taybeh - Indiscriminate shelling covers Beirut and clashes in Al-Karmeliyeh - Zgharta (150) dead and wounded) Israel bombs Al-Arqoub.

76/5/18: Jalloud travels to Damascus then to Baghdad and confirms: Libya is with the resistance, the national movement and the Lebanese Arab Army, and there must be unity with Syria - The National Movement calls for Arab support for it - The Kafr Front criticizes Jalloud - Al-Sadr justifies the battle of Ayoun Al-Siman - The Kuwaiti Minister of Interior calls for the use of reason and the rejection of force - Al-Ahram, attacks Franjieh's procrastination in resigning - Israel fears the Syrian-Jordanian rapprochement. The missile war continues (75 dead and wounded), Channel 5 and the airport are bombed and shut down, violent battles in the mountains, and missiles reach Jounieh and Bkerke - a misunderstanding develops into a clash between the Communist Party, the Labor Organization, and the Union of Working People's Forces.

76/5/19: Meeting of Sarkis and Jumblatt in the presence of Arafat and Abu Iyad - Postponement of the Riyadh meeting. Jalloud returns to Damascus and meets with Assad - The shelling war continues brutally and clashes in the markets, the mountains and the north, and work is underway for a new ceasefire agreement - Major Maamari warns Franjieh of destroying Zgharta.

76/5/20: Pierre Gemayel demands the distribution of Palestinians (500) thousand Palestinians) - Bashir Gemayel holds traditional politicians responsible for everything that happened - Ford: I will not allow military involvement in Lebanon - Sadat: I predicted what happened in Lebanon and we will not stand idly by - Iraq, Algeria and Libya with the national movement and resistance - Algerian Ambassador Muhammad Yazid meets with Jumblatt - An Iraqi delegation headed by Ali Ghannam in Beirut Pravda, the Soviets support the Arab League initiative - Shelling and clashes in Beirut).

50 dead and wounded in the North

76/5/21: Aziz Al-Ahdab believes that his movement has achieved its goals and asks Sarkis to be exempted from military service - The Executive Office of the Front participating in the Palestinian Revolution stresses the independence of the revolution, and Jumblatt presents the developments of the crisis - Karami refuses to attend the cabinet session - Chamoun calls for a round table and international forces - Yazid, the Algerian ambassador: A political solution around a round table - Pierre Gemayel attacks Libya, Iraq and Algeria for their contact with the left only - News about Moscow sabotaging the Riyadh meeting and calling for a northern front - The Liberation Army is stationed in Koura and Anfeh - : Dabastan after visiting Washington: France can send French forces to Lebanon provided there is relative calm on all fronts.

5/22/76 All parties agree - Maronite summit in Kfour and Chamoun confirms that Franjieh will not resign before Sarkis takes over - Final statement of the participating front: What happened was a conspiracy against the resistance, security is a Lebanese issue - Mixed reactions about the possibility of French military intervention - Egyptian spokesman accuses the isolationists of blowing up the situation and attacks Chamoun - The National Command of the Baath (Syria) explains to the world the developments of the situation in the Arab world and in Lebanon - The fronts of the commercial markets, the north, and some mountain sites remained burning.

76/5/23: The National Movement and the Resistance reject any French military intervention in Lebanon - Washington announces that it does not support the French proposal - The French Socialist Party: The initiative is a direct intervention - The Movement of the Deprived commemorates Martyr's Day, in which: Karami, Subhi Al-Saleh, Al-Sadr spoke - Abu Iyad: We reject the arrival of foreign forces and the solution is internal political first and says: It is not true that the fighting is taking place under the banner of communism, but under the national banner, and the revolution number one is indivisible and is led by the Fatah Movement - Asem Qanso: Jumblatt and the communists oppose the Arabism of Lebanon and we are not in a hurry for Franjieh's resignation - Armed clash in Jbeil between the National Bloc (Edde) and the Phalanges (3) dead and a number of wounded. 76/5/24: - The Palestine Liberation Organization calls on the Arab League to take action to stop the French intervention project - France clarifies that the Debstan proposal is just a possibility to support peace
and is only being implemented based on the request of Lebanese legitimacy - Sarkis asks the French ambassador to clarify - The Palestinian Rejection Front threatens to strike French interests in the Arab world - Algerian Ambassador Yazid criticizes the French proposal - Jumblatt: I will inform Sarkis in response to the proposals presented to me - The clashes in Jbeil continue, and the clashes were due to Edde's visit to the region - The situation in Jezzine is tense and the town is besieged.

76/5/25: An assassination attempt on Raymond Edde between Nahr Ibrahim and Dbayeh, and he was shot in the leg after his visit to Byblos, where 30 of its people were killed, after Edde met with Gemayel in Bkerke - A wave of condemnation of the incident, which was considered directed at the national Christians - Sarkis meets with Khreish and then with Franjieh - Amin Gemayel: The basis of stability is in the alliance of the resistance, Lebanon and Syria - Zuhair Mohsen attacks Jumblatt
Ahmed Al-Khatib attacks foreign intervention - Jumblatt: Our proposal of the round table is an entrance to the solution, and Egypt is a basic base for the Arab struggle - Sadat: Two sides of the crisis, Lebanese, and Lebanese-Palestinian - Boumediene calls for rejecting French forces - The return of violent random shelling and battles in Ayoune El-Siman - Faraya (one hundred dead and wounded).

76/5/26: Mahmoud Riad: Western countries reject any foreign intervention and must play a role in restoring normal life - French Foreign Minister: Foreign intervention does not solve the Lebanese problem - Waldheim meets with Assad in Damascus and announces the resumption of the search for Baadel Osseiran, the Algerian ambassador, Dr. Najib Abu Haidar, Sami Al-Khatib and others - Reactions to the attempted assassination of Edde continue - Jumblatt: The establishment of an Arab rejection front is a national necessity - Major Maamari, Abdullah Saadeh, and Farouk Al-Muqaddam visited Jumblatt: She trusted them and they killed her - In her home on Sami Al-Solh Street (Furn Al-Shebbak).

Peace is linked to the presence of international forces in the region - The UN Security Council is concerned about Israel's changes in the occupied territories - Sarkis moves to West Beirut and meets
Damascus and they discuss the situation - The random shelling between East and West Beirut escalates.

76/5/27: Assassination of Mrs. Linda Jumblatt, sister of Kamal Jumblatt, and serious injury to her two daughters. Arafat leaves for Cairo - Karami: Chamoun, Gemayel, condemn the incident: -
Sarkis visits the Mufti, Al-Sadr, Sheikh Al-Aql - The Orthodox Conference supports Sarkis's efforts - Nine MPs who boycotted the election session consider the result a provocation to the people.
Hamad Butari: 43 thousand liras per day from! Donations: in liras for the war effort of the Lebanese Arab Army, and half a million liras per month from customs - Fierce fighting in Akkar, and the Lebanese Arab Army enters Andqet, and Ehden is bombarded with Grad missiles, and the escalation continues in Beirut and the suburbs.

76/5/28: 12 thousand mourned Linda Jumblatt, Pierre Gemayel accuses ghosts, and his son Bashir says he arrested three of those accused of assassinating her, - The Lebanese Liberation Front announces its responsibility for the assassination attempt on Edde - Sarkis meets with Kamal Shatila and Najah Wakim, then with Zuhair Mohsen and Colonel Madani - The UN Security Council renews the mandate of the international forces in the Golan for another six months - The shells continue in Beirut (125) dead and wounded) and 40 (23 dead and 100 wounded in Sabra, and (32) dead and 69 wounded) in the remaining areas, battles in Jezzine between the Phalangists and the Syrian nationalists - Abu Iyad accuses Al-Maamari of implementing a suspicious plan by moving in Akkar - Arafat meets with Gaddafi and Jalloud - Jalloud receives Khaddam in the Libyan capital - Saudi-Kuwaiti mediation - French Foreign Minister: We will continue Our Efforts - Al-Jamil: America and the Soviet Union shelled the airport.

5/29/76: The security situation deteriorated in Zahle, and Al-Maamari attacked the towns of Qobayat and Andqet in Akkar, and the Phalanges attacked Koura, a thousand shells fell in Beirut and the suburbs, they could form an international police - Commander of the French naval units in Alexandria: The French fleet is capable of reaching Lebanon from Toulon in three days - The Washington Post: There are unavoidable doubts that Kissinger is a party or silent partner in what Lebanon is witnessing - Kosygin visits Baghdad.

76/5/30: Sarkis informs Riad: We cannot decide on the call for an urgent Arab meeting to discuss the situation in Lebanon, because we have not received constitutional powers - Edde: The partition conspiracy continues - Assad discusses the situation with senior Syrian officials - George Hawi hopes that Kosygin's visit to Damascus will support the Arab Front for Rejecting Imperialism - Analysis: The Qobayat incident and the military escalation in preparation for foreign intervention - On Abdel Nasser's Day in Tyre: Al-Khatib: They condemned the shelling of Qobayat but did not condemn the shelling of Sabra and Tariq al-Jadida - Abu Musa: The conflict is between a nationalist group and a reactionary one - Gemayel urges Kosygin to play a positive role - Random shelling of Palestinian camps (270 dead and 680 wounded) - Violent battles in Koura (31 dead) and the displacement of the people of Ras Nahash and Kafraya after the withdrawal of Barakat's forces and the Phalanges from them - The Liberation Army withdraws from Zahle and its positions are occupied by the forces of Officer Youssef al-Tahhan The joint forces bombed it - Beirut airport was closed from 10 pm until 5 pm.

5/31/76: Military units enter Akkar towards Qobayat and Andqet - and the residents of the two towns appeal to Assad to intervene - Arafat in Algeria, where he announces that the Palestine Liberation Organization will stand in the face of any military or political intervention in Lebanon.

أيار (مايو) عام ١٩٧٦ .. حرب لبنان _ صور _ وثائق _ أحداث

أيار (مايو) عام ١٩٧٦ .. حرب لبنان _ صور _ وثائق _ أحداث

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