January 23 – Judge
Tarek Bitar resumes his investigation into the explosion, 13 months after
Hezbollah officials filed complaints against Bitar that prompted him to suspend the investigation.[2]
June 1 - The Lebanese military court charged five men with the December 2022 killing of an Irish peacekeeper during an attack on a
UNIFIL convoy in the town of Al-Aqbiya.[14]
June 3 – Muammar Gaddafi's son,
Hannibal Gaddafi, goes on a hunger strike to protest against his prolonged detention in Lebanon after being detained since 2015.[15][16]
June 27 – The
Lebanese Security Forces seize 450,000
Captagon pills headed to Gulf after a raid in a warehouse near the Beirut International Airport.[19]
July
July 1 – 2 people were killed in the town of
Bcharre during clashes after a land dispute between the neighboring town of
Dennyeh in Northern Lebanon.[20]
July 7 – One person was killed and three were wounded during a shootout in the Bekaa Valley.[21]
July 30 –
2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes: Fighting broke out inside the
Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in
Lebanon after Islamist gunmen tried to assassinate Fatah militant Mahmoud Khalil, killing a companion of his instead.[22]
August
August 2 – The former Lebanese Forces coordinator in
Bint Jbeil, Elias Hasrouni, was found murdered in his car in his town of
Ain Ibil.[23]
August 5 –
Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf and European countries, announces travel restrictions and bans in Lebanon after the Ain al-Hilweh clashes and urged their citizens to flee the country.[24]
August 9 – 2 people were killed near a church during a clash between Hezbollah members and Christian civilians after a Hezbollah truck carrying weapons attempted to entered a Christian town of
Kahaleh near Beirut.[25]
August 10 – Lebanese defense minister,
Maurice Sleem, was hit with bullets which hit his car in a possible assassination attempt.[26]
August 23 – 2 military personnel died in a military helicopter crash during a training flight in
Hammana.[27]
August 28 – The Lebanese authorities detain 2 Russian citizens for allegedly spying for Israel.[28]
August 31 – UNIFL's presence in Southern Lebanon is extended for 1 year after a United Nations vote.[29]
September
September 8 –
2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes: Clashes are resumed in Ain al-Hilweh as the accused killer of the Fatah official was not handed over to Lebanese Judiciary.[30]
September 28 – An altercation between Lebanese Armenians and the Lebanese security forces takes place during protests against the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh.[34]
October
October 8 –
2023 Israel–Hamas war: The IDF strikes Southern Lebanon after Hezbollah shelled an Israeli military post in the disputed
Shebaa Farms region.
October 9 –
October 2023 Hezbollah strike:
3 members of
Hezbollah are killed during an airstrike by Israel in Southern Lebanon, while two others are killed during a
shootout at the border with Israel.[35]
October 29 –
Reporters Without Borders says the killing of
Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in
Lebanon earlier this month resulted from a deliberate strike from the direction of the
Israeli border.[51]
November 5 – Three children and a woman are killed, and several others are injured, when two cars carrying
civilians are hit by an
Israeliairstrike near the towns of
Ainata and
Aitaroun,
Lebanon, and four paramedics are injured when two ambulances are bombed in
Tayr Harfa. In response to these attacks,
Hezbollah launches an
anti-tank guided missile towards
Kiryat Shmona, killing a civilian. Three Hezbollah members are later killed in retaliation during a series of Israeli airstrikes.[54]
November 6 –
IDF spokesperson
Daniel Hagari says
fighter jets have struck a "broad range" of
Hezbollah targets in
Lebanon in response to a barrage of rockets fired at northern Israeli cities.[55]
November 21 – Four Hamas gunmen, are killed by
Israelishelling in
Tayr Harfa,
Lebanon; the pro-Hezbollah
Al-Mayadeen television station also claimed two journalists and a civilian were killed, shortly after the Israel Defense Forces said it struck several
Hezbollah anti-tank missile squads in
southern Lebanon and other sites in response to missile fire toward
Metula, in
northern Israel.
December 7 –
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International find that Israel targeted
journalists in an attack in southern Lebanon, firing artillery shells which killed one journalist and injured six others, concluding this was likely a direct attack on
civilians and should be investigated as a
war crime.[59]