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

December:

2/76/12: The Arab Quartet Committee meets on Monday and discusses the issue of heavy weapons - The Lebanese Front exploits the assassination attempt on Minister Khaddam to drive a wedge between Syria and the resistance "Black June" claims responsibility for the assassination attempt on Khaddam, Arafat denounces - Kissinger and Dentz discuss the situation in southern Lebanon. Losses in telegraph and telephone (110) million liras.

12/4/76: News of a Syrian-Palestinian agreement on the subject of heavy weapons and the Quartet Committee will meet tomorrow in Baabda headed by Sarkis - A car explosion near Jumblatt's house in Beirut (two dead and 24 wounded) - Cancellation of all "bearer" stocks in Lebanon after they appeared in London - The National Movement's Emergency Committee: Arrests in Tripoli and a call for deterrence to intervene - Damascus: Khaddam's condition is improving - Sarkis searches the south and reconstruction in his house - Kamal Shatila calls for the dissolution of all divisionist formations -

12/5/76: Tensions are renewed in the south and Arafat warns of the dangers of isolationist-Israeli cooperation. Official Israeli decision: We reject the fedayeen and Syrian forces in the south - Chamoun continues to graduate the "Free Men" militias - A joint Palestinian-Yugoslav statement warns of plans to obstruct the settlement of the situation in Lebanon - Salam and Jumblatt on the car explosion incident: There is a sabotage plot - Pakradouni: The solution lies in the presidential system - An armed Phalangist convoy is straining the situation in Amioun.

12/6/76: Jumblatt apologizes for visiting Baabda and sends a memorandum from the National Movement to Sarkis and advises Ahmad al-Hajj to resign - Talk about a government of specialists - An unfortunate clash in Nahr al-Bared camp due to an individual incident (25 dead) - Gaddafi in Moscow: Our friendship is strategic - Deterrence denies withdrawal from Zgharta - Assad. Discusses Geneva Conference and Lebanon in Amman - Jumblatt on the phone with Sarkis: I am exposed to being killed in front of my house - Chamoun calls for a federal system similar to Switzerland - Bashir Gemayel in Gharbia completes the dialogue with Riad Taha - (Lebanese) Bulletin - Kataeb: We are now more determined to reject Arabism - Sarkis wants to close the gate to the south and the people of Qalaa cling to Israel.

7/12/76: Sarkis poses three questions to the representatives, and the expansion of consultations postpones the assignment of Salim al-Hoss - Chamoun insists on a government of politicians and Gemayel calls for taking into account the psychological state of the fighters - Dr. al-Hoss's first statement: (50) million L.P. will be allocated to factories
Arrest of two members of the Cedar Guards, who opened fire on the deterrence in Jounieh - Washington conducts intensive contacts to fill the vacuum in the south - Jumblatt refuses to talk in the government and says: The car bombers must be discovered - President Assad to Khreish and Arafat: The Syrian national line is fixed - Statements condemning the division of the Lebanese University.

12/76/8: Dr. Salim al-Hoss as Prime Minister: Confronting the challenges, the Prime Minister-designate: Forming a working group to gather and unify Lebanon - Allon: We will not allow Syrian forces to enter the south - Algerian Ambassador Muhammad Yazid conveys two messages from Boumediene to Sarkis and Arafat - Deterrence separates Fneideq and al-Huwaisheb, and the concerned army commander, Officer Ghassan Hamadeh, commits suicide in al-Suyuf - The leadership of the resistance and the national movement discuss in the presence of a representative: Al-Sa'iqa: An accident and al-Bared: - Bint Jbeil exchanges fire with Israeli artillery positions - (250) thousand orphans in Lebanon - The campaign to divide the university escalates in the media.

12/76/9: A government of eight meets immediately after its formation, and it is as follows: Prime Minister Dr. Salim Al-Hoss (Economy, Trade, Industry, Oil, and Media) Amin Al-Bizri (Public Works and Tourism (Farid Raphael) Justice, Finance, Post, Telegraph and Telephone (Michel Doumit) Design Salah Salman (Interior - Housing) Ibrahim Shaito (Health, Water and Electricity Resources (Fouad Boutros) (Foreign Affairs, Defense (Asaad Rizk) Education, Social Affairs and Agriculture) - First session of the military court - Deterrence kills a gunman with an Israeli machine gun at the Tayouneh checkpoint - Riad Taha calls for curbing violations in newspapers - Edde: The bullets are directed at the media - Jumblatt: Deterrence in Keserwan prevents division, and America paid $250 million in the war - The Phalanges declare "Abu Arz": They will not surrender their weapons before the expulsion of the Palestinians.

12/10/76: The government begins unifying the radio - Sarkis calls on the Quartet Committee to meet on Tuesday - Head of the Banking Association: To the Ambassador: Depositors' rights will be paid in full and debts will be collected - Arafat in Damascus and meetings between Fatah and the Rejectionists - One dead and two wounded from the Free Men in a shooting attack on their barracks in Ain al-Rummaneh - Consensus to welcome the government and the National Movement calls for confronting the unification of the country. 12/11/76: The first meeting between Sarkis and an official delegation representing the National Movement headed by MP Anwar Fatayri - The Palestinian Central Council Arafat and Abu Iyad in Damascus Albert Mansour and included Hikmat al-Abed, Jamal Fakhoury, Rafiq Abu Younes. The Rejection Front boycotts - Clashes between the Phalanges and the Free Men renewed - Handover and handover between the ministers - Amin Gemayel: The Syrian position saved us very difficult stages - Edmond Naim talks about dividing the university: I implemented the decision of the Minister of Education and my suggestions are different.

12/12/76: Phalangist bullets on Chamoun in Achrafieh, the Free Men withdraw from: The Lebanese Forces: They mobilize their elements at night, 3 dead and a number of wounded, and the Deterrence Forces reinforce their positions in Achrafieh - The Central Council: A 5-hour session of the Executive Committee in which Arafat and Mohsen reconcile - Ghor calls on Lebanon to build its own force - Strict orders from Sarkis to secure Edde's safety - Bashir Gemayel calls on the Lebanese to agree on others! 12/13/76: The Quartet Committee decides on the issue of collecting weapons tomorrow, setting a detailed plan to implement the Cairo Agreement - Expecting a meeting between Sarkis and Arafat - The Free Men return to the Lebanese Forces in exchange for appointing a new leadership council - Assad receives Arafat and discusses several issues with him, including the Lebanese crisis - Study of the draft ministerial statement - Al-Asaad returns from Damascus: The situation in the south is very dangerous - A message from him to President Sarkis via the press - Jumblatt calls on the president to put an end to the attacks - Shells between Bint Jbeil and its surroundings and an Israeli naval infiltration attempt towards Rashidieh.

12/14/76: Weapons collection to be completed before the end of the month, the Quartet Committee receives a report from Sarkis and makes contacts with the parties - Al-Hoss begins an Arab tour on Friday carrying the Covenant plan
Reconstruction Lebanon - The final statement of the Palestinian Central Council praises the Lebanese people and confirms the alliance with Syria - Agreement to unify the General Security - Security forces participate in the deterrence at checkpoints - A bomb blows up Karim Pakradouni's car in Achrafieh and he is keen to acquit the liberals - Minister Khaddam leaves the hospital, the Phalanges refuse to close their radio station - Qleilat welcomes the new government - (700) million liras in capital losses in 75-76, and 2.274 billion in indirect losses from the national income (in industry) - The port begins tomorrow - Law professors with the unified university - Qaisar Nasr, Dean of Social Sciences, accuses professors of nobility and attacks participation.

12/15/76: The first session of the Council of Ministers at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, the ministerial statement is decided - Weapons collection centers do not include the south - Arafat confirms to the Arab Quartet the resistance's commitment to the Cairo Agreement Armed raids on the offices of the editor, Beirut, and Al-Dustour, Jumblatt calls Sarkis to protest and the parties denounce. Al-Hoss: The matter is with the Deterrence Forces and they are dealing with it - Deterrence session 4 Phalangists are arrested in Koura and Saudi forces enter Jabal Jenin Confidence in the government next Thursday at Mansour Palace in the museum - He calls for the trial of those responsible for the war - Sheikh Sobhi Al-Saleh: Our role is to drop the privileges - The National Movement's security committee raises isolationist provocations with Al-Hajj. The import sector loses billions and 350 million pounds - Mustafa Saad calls for strengthening self-defense for the south.

12/16/76: The Quartet Committee (the ambassadors of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the representative of Syria) headed by Sarkis: Intensive contacts between the countries represented in the committee end the issue of collecting weapons Wednesday - Dawn: The leadership of the resistance surrounds the clashes in the camps between elements of (Al-Sa'iqa and the Popular Front: - Gaddafi receives Ahmed Al-Khatib Press institutions: Contacts are at a high level and we are awaiting the results of the investigation - The battalions forcefully shut down the port one day after it resumed its work and the deterrence pursues the aggressors - (9,000) visas from Australia for the Lebanese - Al-Hoss postpones his Arab tour until Saturday - 2 billion and 225 million in the export sector during the war - The Central Political Council (Jumblatt Mohsen Ibrahim, George Hawi, Fouad Shabqlo visits social welfare institutions and donates (240) thousand liras to care for 100 orphans - The bus on its first day. 12/17/76: Prime Minister Dr. Al-Hoss returns from Damascus and announces: The meeting By the President

Assad was positive, helpful and constructive - Raiding the offices of the Ambassador, and removing its editors and workers - Ghassan Tueni after his meeting with Kissinger: Washington bears a large share of the aid for the reconstruction of Lebanon - The Palestinian leadership denies what was published about the issue of collecting weapons and containing the clashes in the camps - Edde supports granting the government exceptional powers to create laws - The Political Council of the National Movement discusses the issue of the press and Jumblatt calls for the resignation of Colonel Hajj - Jumblatt visits the Mufti and receives the Minister of Interior Salman and says: The absence of dictatorial regimes does not encourage the abandonment of freedoms - Tripoli bids farewell to General Fawzi al-Qawuqji.

18 12 76: Al-Hoss visits Saudi Arabia and then Kuwait carrying two letters from Sarkis to King Khalid and the Emir of Kuwait and complete files on urgent development projects - Reuters: The PLO has reached a turning point in its history - Two cars belonging to the Independent Nasserite Movement - Al-Murabitun, were blown up in front of its offices in Abu Shaker - Michel Abu Jaoudeh's memorandum to the President of the Republic proposing a Lebanese treatment for the press situation - The National Movement: Freedom of the press is the essence of the public freedoms guaranteed by the constitution - Franjieh in Zgharna: We will not lay down our gunpowder before peace returns - Gemayel comments on the request to station Lebanese army forces on the border with the enemy - Ghassan Tueni discusses with McNamara the World Bank's assistance to Lebanon. 12/76/19: Al-Hoss in Jeddah: The priority is the political solution and we are waiting for aid from America - Helicopters disappeared from the port of Beirut - Al-Asaad returning from Amman: The comprehensive explosion will continue if the crisis in the south does not end - Tony Frangieh: Rule by one head and governorates enjoying self-rule - The National Parties Front condemns the attack on Al-Rad’a in the Eid sermon.

12/20/76: Ambassadors of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait prepare for the meeting of the Quartet Committee - Al-Hoss begins his visit to Kuwait and Kuwait eases restrictions on the Lebanese - News about a meeting
Sadat and Assad in Cairo tomorrow and support Sarkis - Karami: No to political centralization and yes to administrative centralization - Forming subcommittees to count the damage to state buildings. 12/21/76: Al-Hoss returns: We will develop a common Arab formula for reconstruction - Al-Asaad: Vote of confidence on Friday - Deterrence Forces intervene to stop camp clashes - Quartet Committee meets tomorrow, Thursday, to announce the agreement to collect weapons - News about new passports and public security centers in the regions - Jumblatt Al-Majalla: Noufel Oiser.Fatur: The Palestinians exercised a kind of mandate over us, the military administration and means of living and communication were in their hands (Al-Anwar) - Patriarch Hakim: We decided to relinquish the powers of the state's religious courts - A unified political leadership
Between Egypt, Syria and Geneva before April and the Palestinians are an independent delegation. 12/22/76: Sarkis in the Cabinet: The unified leadership between Egypt and Syria is a historic event and a major step - Palestinian deterrence inside the camps - Mohammad Sabra arrives in Beirut to inform Sarkis of the Cairo talks between Sadat and Assad - and Pravda calls on Deterrence to be vigilant.

12/23/76: The Quartet Committee meets under the chairmanship of Sarkis and in the presence of the ambassadors of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and in the absence of Colonel Mohammad Al-Kholi, the representative of Syria - Bashir Gemayel hands Minister Boutros a memorandum on handing over the military barracks - Violent clashes in the Burj Al-Barajneh areas in Haret Hreik between some resistance factions - Deterrence forces kill a civilian who tried to throw a bomb at them near the building of the newspaper: An-Nahar. - . Al-Milad: Reconstruction must: start with the human being. He holds his first session to vote of confidence in the government, Al-Hoss delivers the ministerial statement linking confidence to Khreish in the representatives, the homeland and the state - the Council approves the exceptional powers.

12/24/76: 72 votes of confidence for the government and exceptional powers, Al-Asaad shortened the discussion and Al-Hoss responded to the representatives from the radio - Saudi Ambassador Al-Shaer announces in the name of the Quartet Committee its decision to collect weapons after the resistance agreed - A call in the camps in the name of: The Palestinian Strike Force: No armed manifestations in the camps - Sadat receives Arafat - American experts may arrive in Beirut soon - Electricity rationing will continue until January 15.

12/26/76: Ministers begin their work by visiting some Arab countries - Al-Assad discusses with Arafat the developments in the region - Al-Sadr reveals to Al-Anwar, an attempt launched from Jordan and Lebanon - The Mufti: The conflict is Tel Aviv: to assassinate him - Two rockets were fired in Lebanon between privilege students and justice students - Dar Al-Fatwa: Khreish's message agrees with the Islamic Conference working paper.

12/27/76: A tripartite ministerial committee for relief and aid affairs - . Work. : The Palestinians return the south to the danger zone - Bashir Gemayel: The southerners have the right to defend them - Abu Mazen: The resistance will not surrender its weapons, but will transfer them from the cities to the south - Saudi Arabia accepts passports issued after April 75.

12/28/76: Deterrence forces from the UAE head to Tyre and deterrence will spread in the south within ten days - Al-Hoss in Cairo delivers a message from Sarkis to Sadat: The southern issue is an Arab responsibility and the Quartet Committee has reached a solution to collect heavy weapons - Jumblatt: They transported explosives in coffins and blew up 47 houses in Tarshish - Gemayel warns of Palestinian movements in the south - Edmond Rabbat: Lebanon has not yet moved from the first republic to the second - Tension prevails in the southern border area with clashes and intermittent shelling - The National Movement decides to prepare lists of its weapons. 12/29/76: Sadat: I agreed with Assad and Arafat to collect weapons and a long talk - for Al-Anwar » about Lebanon - Renewed shooting in the Qalaa, Kfar Kila - Adaisseh axis in the south - and shooting in Al-Fakhani in Beirut - Assad receives the Lebanese Foreign Minister Boutros - The National Movement informs the Deterrence Command of the locations of its weapons collection Zuhair Mohsen: The decision to collect weapons will be implemented and it is not possible to hide a single weapon - Asem Qanso: He likes to collect the parties into three: Nationalist: Marxist-Leninist, and right-wing - The first project to organize the army is presented by Fouad Lahoud - «Arab Struggle»: The isolationist escalation in the south aims to disrupt the Cairo Agreement - Al-Hoss visits Libya and praises Jalloud's role in resolving the crisis. 12/30/76: Al-Hoss returns from Libya after delivering a message from Sarkis to Colonel Gaddafi, saying: Libya is ready to contribute to the reconstruction of Lebanon - Jumblatt: The isolationists are not loyal in their relations and have begun maneuvering to disrupt the peace process - Chamoun: Normal life will not return except by implementing the decentralization system - Ahmed Al-Khatib in Sidon barracks delivers a speech to Al-Murabitoun: They will transfer their heavy weapons to the south or blow them up if they are prevented from performing their national duty - Boutros returns from Damascus: Soldiers and officers -
My visit was positive and I sensed a readiness to help Lebanon - The Phalanges talk about an exceptional conference that they will hold to determine a position on the new Lebanon based on the reality that the events have produced - Tension continues in the south.

12/31/76: Sarkis informs the various parties to collect weapons in the second half of January 1977 - Meetings at the palace to present the results of the trips of Al-Hoss and his ministers - General Hanna Saeed visits Baabda and hands Chamoun the sword of merit - The expansion of the scope of the clashes in the south and Israeli movements near the border - The commemoration of Ashura and a message from Al-Sadr - Many comments about the coming world.

_ Year 1977_
November:

1/2/77: Legislative Decree No. 1 deals with censorship of newspapers and includes deterrence movements, weapons, Arab relations and the call for partition - Bashir Gemayel: 1977 is the year of separation, either to consolidate peace or renew war.

1/3/77: A car bomb explodes in Talat Al-Akkawi (35 killed and 53 injured) - Minister of Interior: Censorship of newspapers does not exert pressure on the correct news - Censorship begins on newspapers and deterrence evacuates its offices.