January 24 – Saad Hariri announced that he will suspend his involvement in political activities and will not run in upcoming general elections.[6][7]
January 26 – Electricity deal between Lebanon, Syria and Jordan is signed by officials.[8]
January 31 – Lebanon Security forces claim to have uncovered 15 alleged Israeli spy networks.[9]
February
February 2 – Child kidnappings in Lebanon are on the rise after the kidnapping of Ryan Kanaan with a ransom of $250,000 to free him.[10]
February 11 - Truck transporting gas explodes on the highway in Zouk Mikael. Damaging a nearby building and a jeep. No injuries and deaths were reported.
February 15 – Lebanon's central bank governor's whereabouts, Riad Salemeh, are unknown after police raided his office and two homes for corruption.[11]
February 18 – Israel's Iron Dome fails to intercept a Hezbollah-operated military drone from Lebanon that penetrated seventy kilometers into Israeli airspace. The drone flew for forty minutes before returning to Lebanon. Israeli jets fly at very low altitude over Beirut in response to the incident.[12][13]
February 23 – The EU deploys an election observation mission in Lebanon.[14]
March
March 21 – The Lebanese Government charges central bank governor, Riad Salemeh, and his brother, Raja, for illicit enrichment.[15]
May 20 – Two fishermen die in Sidon while preparing dynamite sticks for fishing.[27]
May 31 – Nabih Berri was re-elected as speaker of the Lebanese parliament with 65 (50.78%) votes in his favor for the 7th term. Elias Bou Saab was elected as his deputy.[28]
June
June 3 – One soldier is killed and five injured in an army raid in Baalbek in attempt to apprehend a notorious drug lord.[29]
June 23 – Najib Mikati is re-elected as prime minister-designate.[32]
June 30 – Bnoss Jounieh festival begins until July 31.
July
July 2 – Foreign ministers of Arab countries visit Lebanon during crisis.[33]
July 4 – People in Bnoss Jounieh festival welcome the Lebanese national basketball team to celebrate after beating Saudi Arabia by 90-60 in World cup qualifiers and qualifying to the next round.
July 6 – Police arrest juice seller who drugged and raped children.[34]
July 13 – A Saudi Arabian opposition leader is killed in Beirut; his brothers detained.[35]
July 31 – Part of the grain silos in the Beirut Port collapses sending plume of smoke across the blast site causing people to wear face masks to avoid the smoke.
Another part of the grain silos collapses sending more smoke.[37]
A man takes several employees hostage at a bank in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding his bank savings and threatening to set himself on fire. Police officers, soldiers, and intelligence agents surround the building.[38]
August 19 – Wilfires burn in a pine forest in Baskinta at around midnight local time and continues burning overnight until the next day afternoon.[39]
August 20 – Army and civil defense rush to the burning pine forest in Baskinta to fight off the blaze. Smoke rises all over the village. Fire spreads to 150 meters square. Helicopters fights the fire by dumping water buckets. Many trees were affected.
As of afternoon, the fire was being extinguished. The fire was later extinguished. No one was killed or injured.
People evacuated from Beirut due to the threat of the northern part of the grain silos collapsing. The fire brigade was also evacuated from the port. All employees were evacuated from the silos area.
September 16 – Lebanese banks declare 3-day closures amid security concerns over protesters demand the release of bank heist detainees.[41][42]
September 22 – 2022 Tartus migrant shipwreck: At least 94 people are killed when a boat carrying migrants from Lebanoncapsizes off Syria's coast. 9 people survived. Many were declared missing and some were found either dead or injured. Dead bodies were sent to nearby hospitals. 40 people are still missing as of 24 September.[43]
October
October 6 – A cholera case is recorded for the first time since 1993; likely caused from an outbreak in neighboring Syria.[44]
October 9 – The Deir Ammar and Zahrani power stations shut down in Lebanon after running out of diesel fuel, leaving the entire country without electricity. According to a government official, power is not expected to be restored for several days.[45]
October 11 – Israel and Lebanon agrees to a US-brokered agreement that will allow both countries to exploit gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, ending decades of maritime border disputes between the two nations.[46]
October 31 - 2023– Parliament elects a new president of the republic at the end of Michel Aoun's 6-year tenure.
December
December 12 – Three Hamas members are killed and six more injured during a dispute with Fatah gunmen in Tyre, Lebanon, at the funeral of a Hamas member killed two days ago during an accidental explosion at the Burj el-Shemali camp.[52]
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