List of assassinations in Lebanon

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This is a list of assassinations in Lebanon and nearby countries.

Pre-1970s

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!Method

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1152

|Raymond II of Tripoli, count of Tripoli

|Tripoli

|

|

|Killed by Hashshashin

April 28, 1192

|Conrad of Montferrat

|Tyre

|

|

|Killed by Hashshashin

August 17, 1270

|Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre

|

|

|

|Killed by Hashshashin

1528

|Muhammad Agha Shu'ayb, Tripoli ruler

|Tripoli

|

|

|Assassinated along with his son in the Taynal Mosque of Tripoli.

August 6, 1921

|Fouad Jumblatt, Druze leader

|

|

|Shakeeb Wahhab

|

October 31, 1950

|Sami al-Hinnawi, Syrian head of state

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Hersho al-Barazi

|Killed by a cousin of former Prime Minister Muhsin al-Barazi, who al-Hinnawi had executed following a coup.

July 17, 1951

|Riad Al Solh, first Prime minister of Lebanon

|Amman

|Shooting

|SSNP

|In revenge for the execution of Antoun Saadeh

May 8, 1958

|Nasib Al Matn, Nasserist journalist

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Pro-Chamoun Lebanese

|Al Matni was assassinated in his office in West Beirut in the early hours on 8 May 1958.{{cite journal |author=K. S. |date=September 1958 |title=The Lebanese Crisis in Perspective |journal=The World Today |volume=14 |issue=9 |pages=369–380 |jstor=40393919}}

September 1958

|Fouad Haddad, Journalist at the Kataeb Party's Al Amal newspaper

|Beirut

|Abduction

|

|Kidnapped in Beirut and killed in September 1958.{{cite news |date=6 May 2015 |title=A century of Attacks on Free Expression |url=http://www.dev.kataeb.org/news/2015/05/06/a-century-of-attacks-on-free-expression |access-date=7 November 2021 |work=Kateeb.org |archive-date=6 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106141520/http://www.dev.kataeb.org/news/2015/05/06/a-century-of-attacks-on-free-expression |url-status=dead }}

October 13, 1958

|Waheed el Solh, aide to Prime Minister Sami Solh

|Beirut

|Sniperfire

|

|Assassinated during the 1958 Lebanon Crisis

July 12, 1959

|Naim Moghabghab, Member of Parliament for the National Liberal Party

|

|Shooting

|Progressive Socialist Party

|Killed when opponents attacked him in his car

May 16, 1966

|Kamel Mrowa, the publisher of Al-Hayat and The Daily Star newspapers

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Adnan Chaker Sultani (INM)

|Shot at his office in Beirut.

1970s

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!Date

!Victim(s)

!Location

!Method

!Assassin(s)

!Notes

March 4, 1972

|Muhammad Umran, former Minister of Defense of Syria

|Tripoli

|Shooting

|

|Shot outside his home in Tripoli

July 8, 1972

|Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer & spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

|Beirut

|Bomb

|Mossad

|Killed by a 3-kg bomb attached to his car in Beirut along with his 17-year old niece.

rowspan="3" |April 9, 1973

|Kamal Adwan, senior Fatah officer

| rowspan="3" |Beirut

| rowspan="3" |Raid

| rowspan="3" |Israel Defence Force

|See IDF seaborne attack

Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, Palestine Liberation Organization executive

|Wife and elderly neighbor also killed in response to the Munich massacre

Kamal Nasser, Palestinian poet

|See 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon

March 6, 1975

|Maarouf Saad, Member of Parliament for Sidon

|Sidon

|Shooting

|Lebanese Army (Alleged)

|Shot during a fisherman's protest and later died in a Beirut hospital

July 15, 1975

|Amine Abouchahine, senior member of the Progressive Socialist Party

|Bmariam

|Shooting

|Kataeb Regulatory Forces

|Shot during a family event at his home and later died on way to a Beirut hospital.

May 25, 1976

|Linda Jumblatt, sister of Kamal Jumblatt

|Beirut

|Shooting

|National Liberal Party

|She was killed in her apartment in Beirut's eastern suburbs. Her two daughters were also injured.{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Henry Tanner Special to The New York |date=1976-05-28 |title=Sister of Moslem Leader Is Murdered in Lebanon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/28/archives/sister-of-moslem-leader-is-murdered-in-lebanon-leaders-sister-is.html |access-date=2024-02-17 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

June 16, 1976

| Francis E. Meloy, Jr., United States Ambassador to Lebanon, and Robert O. Waring, US Economic Counselor to Lebanon

| Beirut

| Abduction

| PFLP

| Abducted by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; the bodies were found with multiple bullet wounds on a garbage dump near the beach in Ramlet al-Baida.

March 16, 1977

|Kamal Jumblatt, Druze leader

|Baakleen

|Shooting

|Ibrahim Huwayji, Syrian Intelligence Officer

|Kamal Jumblatt was gunned down in his car near the village of Baakline in the Chouf mountains by unidentified gunmen.{{cite book |last=O'Ballance |first=Edgar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZhJgTkW058C&pg=PR7 |title=Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21593-4 |page=62}}{{cite book |last=Llewellyn |first=Tim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYgrDkJsuTEC&pg=PR7 |title=Spirit of the Phoenix: Beirut and the Story of Lebanon |publisher=I.B.Tauris |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-84511-735-1 |page=xiii}}{{cite journal |last=Knudsen |first=Are |year=2010 |title=Acquiescence to Assassinations in Post-Civil War Lebanon? |journal=Mediterranean Politics |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.1080/13629391003644611 |s2cid=154792218}} His bodyguard and driver also died in the attack.

June 7, 1978{{Cite web |date=2019-04-24 |title=Kataëb-Marada: les grandes dates |url=https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1167677/kataeb-marada-les-grandes-dates.html |access-date=2021-01-16 |website=L'Orient-Le Jour}}

|Joud el Bayeh, Kataeb Party leader in Zgharta and Marada Movement affiliate

|Zgharta

|

|Marada Movement

|His assassination is believed to have triggered the Ehden massacre.

June 13, 1978

|Tony Frangieh, Christian leader

|Ehden

|Mass killing

|Phalangists

|Killed by Phalangists led by Elie Hobeika during the Ehden massacre

January 22, 1979

|Ali Hassan Salameh, Fatah security chief and CIA asset

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Mossad

|Killed in a car bomb along with eight other people in Beirut

1980s

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!Date

!Victim(s)

!Location

!Method

!Assassin(s)

!Notes

March 6, 1980

|Salim Lawzi, journalist

|Aramoun

|Shooting

|Syrian intelligence agents

|He was kidnapped by gunmen on the Airport Road on 25 February 1980. His heavily bruised tortured body was found nine days later on 4 March 1980 in Aramoun, on the outskirts of Beirut.{{cite book |author=Fouad Ajami |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ye5sewVWcTAC&pg=PA2 |title=The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice since 1967 |date=29 May 1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-43833-9 |page=2}}

May 2, 1980

|Hassan al-Shirazi, Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar

|Borj el Brajneh

|Shooting

|Ba'ath officers

|Thirteen bullets hit al-Shirazi, mostly in his head, killing him.{{Cite web |title=al-Shahid al-Mufaker Ayat Allah al-Sayid Hasan al-Shirazi |trans-title=The martyr and thinker Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan al-Shirazi |url=http://almodarresi.com/mona/c90w8gfl.htm |access-date=2020-06-13 |website=almodarresi.com |language=ar}}

July 23, 1980

|Riad Taha, journalist and president of the Lebanese Publishers Association.

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Unknown

|Although there have been rumors that Syrian intelligence killed him, there is also another report, stating that Taha was killed due to the feud between his family and another Shiite family.{{cite news |date=16 September 1982 |title=Feuds rampant in Lebanon |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hdoRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5e4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7109,315468&dq=gemayel+family+in+lebanon&hl=en |access-date=23 March 2013 |newspaper=The Spokesman Review |location=Beirut |agency=AP}}

July 28, 1980

|Musa Shuaib, poet and member of Ba'ath Party

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Unknown

|Killed by a car bomb at Beirut International Airport along with three others

August 16, 1981

|Elias Hannush, NLP commander

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Leftist gunmen

|His nine-year-old daughter, his seven-year-old son, and two bodyguards were also gunned down.https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Report-Lebanon-Mapping-2013-EN_0.pdf

September 4, 1981

|Louis Delamare, French ambassador

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Red Knights Militia

|Was shot at a checkpoint in Beirut.

March 16, 1982

|Bachir Kayrouz, former MP{{Cite web |last=ThemeLooks |title=الاغتيالات في لبنان والفاعل لا زال مجهولاً |url=https://monthlymagazine.com/article/2746/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%84-%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8B |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=monthlymagazine.com |language=en}}

|Hazmieh

|Shooting

|Unknown

|Was killed in Hazmieh

April 1982

|Sheikh Ahmad Assaf, Sunni cleric{{Cite web |title=Moslems and Christians in rare show of unity - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/04/28/Moslems-and-Christians-in-rare-show-of-unity/4402388814400/ |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=UPI |language=en}}

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Leftist gunmen

|Gunned down by three assailants while driving home from a mosque in West Beirut.

September 14, 1982

|Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon

|Beirut

|Bombing

|Habib Tanious Shartouni and Nabil Alam

|Bomb explosion in the Kataeb's Beirut headquarters."Historic Assassinations Since 1865," The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004, p.156 (World Almanac 2004)

September 29, 1982

|Saad Sayel, senior PLO commander

|Rayak

|Shooting

|Abu Nidal Group

|He was taken by ambulance to the Mowasat hospital in Damascus, where he died from severe bleeding.

rowspan="5" |April 18, 1983

|Robert Ames, CIA chief

| rowspan="5" |Beirut

| rowspan="5" |Suicide van

| rowspan="5" |Hezbollah

| rowspan="5" |A suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members.

Kenneth Haas, Station Chief
James Lewis, CIA officer
Janet Lee Stevens, American journalist
William R. McIntyre, deputy director of the United States Agency for International Development
December 1, 1983

|Sheik Halim Takieddin, Druze leader{{Cite news |last=Hijazi |first=Ihsan A. |date=1983-12-02 |title=DRUSE RELIGIOUS LEADER IS SLAIN AT HOME IN BEIRUT |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/02/world/druse-religious-leader-is-slain-at-home-in-beirut.html |access-date=2024-02-17 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Unknown

|Was found dead at his home in West Beirut.

January 19, 1984

|Malcolm H. Kerr, President of the AUB

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Islamic Jihad Organisation

|Shot by two gunmen outside his office

February 14, 1984

|Ghaith Khoury, Kataeb leader in Jbeil

|Okaibe

|Shooting

|Georges Tannous Chidiac[https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/287585/Justice_Assassinat_de_Ghaith_Khoury_%253A_un_ex-milicien_FL_passe_aux_aveux.html Justice Assassination of Ghaith Khoury: a former FL militiaman confesses] lorientlejour.com (June 14, 1999)

|His wife was also killed due to her injuries

March 1984

|Peter Kilburn

|

|Abduction

|Islamic Jihad Organization

|

February 16, 1984

|Ragheb Harb, Shia leader in south Lebanon

|Jibchit

|Shooting

|Danny Abdallah and Hussein Abbas

|Shot outside his home by Lebanese criminals, allegedly at the direction of Mossad.

December 28, 1984

|Sheikh Khalil al Tawil, Druze leader

|Baakleen

|Shooting

|Unknown

|Was killed by four gunmen{{Cite web |date=2014-09-23 |title=Druze Sheikh Khalil al Tawil assassinated |url=https://civilsociety-centre.org/sir/druze-sheikh-khalil-al-tawil-assassinated |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=The Centre for Social Sciences Research & Action |language=en}}

June 3, 1985

|William Francis Buckley, officer at the U.S. embassy

|

|Execution

|Islamic Jihad Organization

|Abducted in Beirut on March 16, 1984. Executed in 1985.

February 9, 1986

|Khalil Akkawi, leader of the Islamic Unification Movement

|Tripoli

|Shooting

|Syria

|Syrian Military Intelligence killed Tawhid leader Khalil Akkawi because he refused to fight the Lebanese Forces.{{cite web |title=Rougier, B. (2015). North Lebanon in Bilad al-Sham. In The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East: Northern Lebanon from al-Qaeda to ISIS (pp. 1–25). |jstor=j.ctt1pk86v9.4 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pk86v9.4}} Three supporters of Akkawi's Islamic Tawheed, or Islamic Unification Movement, were slain in gunfights with Syrian troopers after his burial.{{cite web |title=Four Killed, Including Syrian, in Tripoli Gunfights |website=Associated Press News |url=https://apnews.com/article/b2930e69e1a395febaaee678fa092fe3}}

May 18, 1987

|Mahdi Amel, Marxist intellectual and militant

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Pro-Iranian Shia Criminals

|Amel was walking on Algeria street when armed men shot him.{{Cite web |title=HASSAN ABDALLAH HAMDAN |url=https://www.lokmanslimfoundation.org/New1/database_detail/11050/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Lokman Slim Foundation |language=en}}

June 1, 1987

|Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon

|Beirut

|Helicopter bombing

|Syria (alleged)

|Killed by bomb aboard helicopter.

August 2, 1987

|Mohammad Choucair, advisor to President Amine Gemayel

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Syria

|Killed in his West Beirut apartment.

February 9, 1989

|Anwar al-Fatayri, Progressive Socialist Party official

|Deri el Qamar

|Shooting

|Officer in the Lebanese army

|Shot at a public event

May 1, 1989

|Sobhi Saleh, head of the Sunni Islamic Higher Council.

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Unknown

|Was killed by masked men in motorcycles near a mosque in West Beirut.{{Cite news |last1=Hijazi |first1=Ihsan A. |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=1986-10-08 |title=LEBANESE SUNNI MOSLEM LEADER IS SLAIN |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/08/world/lebanese-sunni-moslem-leader-is-slain.html |access-date=2024-05-23 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

February 17, 1987

|Husayn Muruwwa, Marxist philosopher

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Pro-Iranian Shia Criminals

|Shot in his head by gunmen at his house

September 24, 1987

|André Mass, director of USJ in Saida

|Sidon

|Shooting

|Unknown

|Three men stormed into his office and killed him.{{Cite web |last=lebanons02 |date=2014-10-15 |title=Assassination of Father André Mass, the director of USJ's branch in Saida |url=https://civilsociety-centre.org/sir/assassination-father-andr%C3%A9-mass-director-usj%E2%80%99s-branch-saida |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Civil Society Knowledge Centre |language=en}}

May 16, 1989

|Hassan Khaled, leader of Sunni community

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Syria

|Khaled and 21 others were killed.[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0712F83E5A0C748DDDAC0894D1484D81 Sunni Muslim chief killed in Lebanon] The New York Times.

September 21, 1989

|Nazem Qadri, Member of Parliament from Beqaa region

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Syria

|Driver also killed

November 22, 1989

|René Moawad, President of Lebanon

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Unknown

|Killed along with 23 others when a 250-kg car bomb exploded while he was being driven through West Beirut

1990s

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!Date

!Victim(s)

!Location

!Method

!Assassin(s)

!Notes

January 19, 1990

|Elias Zayek, Kataeb commander

|Byblos

|Shooting

|Lebanese Forces

|Was shot and killed in Jbeil

October 21, 1990

|Dany Chamoun, son of former President Camille Chamoun

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Syria{{cite web |title=Lebanon Historical Conflict Mapping and Analysis |url=https://civilsociety-centre.org/ictj/map/hist/map |access-date=13 September 2022 |website=Civil Society Knowledge Centre}}

|Killed along with his wife and 2 sons. Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was convicted but later cleared of the murder.

December 1991

|Mustafa Jeha, writer and Al-Amal contributor{{Cite web |title=Mustafa Jeha |url=https://cpj.org/data/people/mustafa-jeha/ |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Hezbollah

|He was a critic of Hezbollah and Iran

February 16, 1992

|Abbas al-Musawi, Secretary-General of Hezbollah

|Nabatieh

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Killed in an airstrike which also killed his wife, son and four others

August 6, 1993

|Henri Philippe Pharaoun, former Foreign Minister

|Beirut

|Stabbing

|Former bodyguard

|Was murdered in his bedroom at the Carlton Hotel"Arrest in Beirut Slaying". The Washington Post. 1993-08-09.

January 29, 1994

|Naib Ma'ayta, First Secretary of the Jordanian Embassy{{Cite news |date=1994-02-13 |title=Lebanese Hold 4 Palestinians In Killing of Jordan Diplomat |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/13/world/lebanese-hold-4-palestinians-in-killing-of-jordan-diplomat.html |access-date=2024-02-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Fatah

|Shot in head and chest by lone gunman outside his Beirut apartmentMiddle East International No 468, 4 February 1994, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Gerald Butt p.11

April 13, 1994

|Talib Suhayl al-Tamimi, leading member of the Council for a Free Iraq.

|Beirut

|Shooting

|Iraqi intelligence

|Four diplomats from the Iraqi embassy detained. One died in prison, the other three sent back to Iraq in 1996Middle East International No 543, 7 February 1997; Giles Trendle p.12

August 31, 1995

|Nizar al-Halabi, leader of the Al-Ahbash Sufi movementMiddle East International No 508, 8 September 1995; G.H.Jansen pp.13-14

|Beirut

|Shooting

|members of Osbat al-Ansar

|Killed instantly when gunmen in a white Mercedes opened fire on his car in West Beirut

2000s

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!Date

!Victim(s)

!Location

!Method

!Assassin(s)

!Notes

January 30, 2000

|Aql Hashem, Colonel in the South Lebanon Army

|Debel

|Bombing

|Hezbollah

|Killed by a remote-controlled bomb in his farm outside Debel. The planning and execution of the operation was filmed and broadcast by Hizbollah's own TV-station Al-Manar.

January 24, 2002

|Elie Hobeika, militia leader

|Hazmiyeh

|Car bomb

|Disputed

|Killed by a car bomb near his house in the Beirut suburb of Hazmiyeh. The explosion killed three other people, including his two bodyguards, and wounded six more people.{{cite news |last=MacFarquhar |first=Neil |date=25 January 2002 |title=Car Bomb Kills Figure in 1982 Lebanese Massacre |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/world/car-bomb-kills-figure-in-1982-lebanese-massacre.html |access-date=7 July 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times}}

May 7, 2002

|Ramzi Irani, Lebanese Forces student representative at Lebanese University

|Beirut

|Execution

|Cold case

|Was walking down Hamra Street on his way to celebrate the birthday of his 5-year-old daughter, Yasmina when he was kidnapped without a trace.

May 17, 2003

|Abdullah Shraidi, former leader of Osbat al-Nour

|Ain el-Hilweh

|Shooting

|Fatah

|Shraidi died two months later, in July,{{cite web |title=Tensions high in Palestinian refugee camp |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2003/07/2008410162529686215.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220062500/https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2003/07/2008410162529686215.html |archive-date=2019-12-20 |website=Al Jazeera}} from wounds sustained during the shooting.

May 20, 2002

|Jihad Ahmed Jibril, leader of the military wing of the PFLP-GC

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Mossad

|A 2 kg TNT booby trap had been put under the driver's seat of his car. The blast occurred in a crowded commercial center in Beirut's Mar Elias district.

May 2, 2004

|Pierre Boulos, former chairman of LF students' branch

|Gemmayzeh

|Abduction

|

|Found dead in his car outside the Gemayze Hospital after disappearing.{{cite news | title = The Lebanese Forces Student Association of North America The Pierre Boulos Award for Excellence | url = https://www.lebanese-forces.com/2009/10/05/62726/ | work = Lebanese Forces Official Website | date = 5 October 2009 | archive-date = 26 October 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141026232037/https://www.lebanese-forces.com/2009/10/05/62726/ }}

July 19, 2004

|Ghaleb Awwali, Amal official

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|

|Killed by a car bomb in Beirut

rowspan="2" |February 14, 2005

|Rafik Hariri, billionaire and former Prime Minister of Lebanon

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Hezbollah (Disputed)

|Killed, along with more than 20 others by a one tonne truck bomb that exploded as his motorcade passed by in Beirut. See Assassination of Rafic Hariri

Bassel Fleihan, Economics Minister in the Hariri government

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Hezbollah (Disputed)

|Travelling in Hariri's motorcade, died of wounds sustained in explosion. See Assassination of Rafic Hariri

June 2, 2005

|Samir Kassir, columnist at "An Nahar" newspaper and fierce critic of Syria

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Syria

|Kassir was assassinated using a car bomb in Beirut on 2 June 2005, just a few days after the general elections.{{cite journal |year=2006 |title=Chronology Of Events: 2005 |journal=Mediterranean Politics |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=279–308 |doi=10.1080/13629390600683048 |s2cid=220378402}}

June 21, 2005

|George Hawi, former chief of the Lebanese Communist Party

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Hezbollah (Disputed)

|When a bomb planted in his Mercedes car was detonated by remote control, as he travelled through Beirut's Wata Musaitbi neighbourhood.{{cite book |last=Mallat |first=Chibli |url=http://mallat.com/books/Appendix1%20and%202.pdf |title=Lebanon's Cedar Revolution An essay on non-violence and justice |publisher=Mallat |page=124 |df=dmy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202044246/http://mallat.com/books/Appendix1%20and%202.pdf |archive-date=2 February 2012}}

December 12, 2005

|Gibran Tueni, Editor in Chief of "An Nahar" newspaper

|Mkalles

|Car bomb

|Strugglers for the Unity and Freedom of al-Sham

|Two of his bodyguards were also killed in the blast.

May 26, 2006

|Mahmoud al-Majzoub, Palestinian Islamic Jihad official

|Sidon

|Car bomb

|Mossad

|His brother Nidal al-Majzoub also died in the explosion.

November 21, 2006

|Pierre Gemayel, Minister of Industry

|Jdeideh

|Shooting

|Strugglers for the Unity and Freedom of al-Sham

|The day before Lebanese Independence Day, at least three to four gunmen opened fire at close range on Gemayel with five different types of suppressed automatic weapons

June 13, 2007

|Walid Eido, Future Party member of the Lebanese Parliament

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Syrian intelligence

|Several citizens were also killed, two of whom were Nejmeh footballers, Hussein Naeem and Hussein Dokmak.

September 19, 2007

|Antoine Ghanim, member of the Lebanese Parliament

|Sin el Fil

|Car bomb

|Syrian intelligence

|The car-bomb that killed him along with at least six others, including his two bodyguards, one of whom is Antoine Daou.

December 12, 2007

|François al-Hajj, General

|Baabda

|Car bomb

|Fatah al-Islam

|Four other people, including his bodyguard, also died in the attack.{{cite news |date=12 December 2007 |title=François al-Hajj assassinated |url=http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?ID=23638 |access-date=25 October 2012 |newspaper=NOW Lebanon}}

January 25, 2008

|Wissam Eid, senior intelligence official within the Internal Security Forces of Lebanon

|Hazmiyeh

|Car bomb

|Syrian intelligence

|A car bomb attack containing an explosive charge of at least 50 kg of explosives killed him, along with his bodyguard and two civilians

February 12, 2008

|Imad Mughniyah, senior Hezbollah member

|Kafr Sousa

|Car bomb

|Mossad

|Killed by a car bomb blast at around 23:00 in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.

September 10, 2008

|Saleh al Aridi, leader of the Lebanese Democratic Party

|Baissour

|Car bomb

|Unknown

|Killed by a 700gm bomb placed in his car outside his home in Aley District

March 23, 2009

|Kamal Naji, deputy representative of the PLO in Lebanon

|Mieh Mieh

|Bomb

|Mossad (alleged)

|Naji and three others were killed when a roadside bomb exploded as his convoy was passing the Kifah el Musallah security check point to Mieh Mieh camp near Sidon.[http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=100346 Medhat received death threats – Fatah leader]

2010s

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!Date

!Victim(s)

!Location

!Method

!Assassin(s)

!Notes

October 19, 2012

|Wissam al-Hassan, head of information branch of the Internal Security Forces

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Syrian intelligence

|Seven other people including his driver also died and nearly eighty people were wounded in the huge blast.{{cite news |last=Al Sharif |first=Osama |date=24 October 2012 |title=Lebanon at the edge of precipice |url=http://english.alarabiya.net/views/2012/10/24/245615.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024191340/http://english.alarabiya.net/views/2012/10/24/245615.html |archive-date=24 October 2012 |access-date=24 October 2012 |newspaper=Al Arabiya}}

December 4, 2013

|Hassan al-Laqqis, military commander of Hezbollah

|Hadath

|Shooting

|ISIS in Lebanon

|A number of gunmen shot him in the head in his car from close range as he arrived at his home

December 27, 2013

|Mohamad Chatah, former finance minister, ambassador to the United States, and advisor to Prime Minister Saad Hariri

|Beirut

|Car bomb

|Hezbollah

|Killed by a car bomb in Beirut. Presumed to be because Chatah was mentioned as a potential candidate for prime minister. Saad Hariri hinted that he believed the assassins to be from Hezbollah.{{Cite web |date=27 December 2013 |title=Lebanon: Hezbollah critic Mohamad Chatah's murder blamed on Shia |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/beirut-bomb-blast-kills-six-including-anti-assad-ex-minister-9027038.html |website=Independent.co.uk}}

February 20, 2014

|Abdulrahman Diab, Arab Democratic Party official{{Cite news |date=20 February 2014 |title=Arab Democratic Party Official Shot Dead in Tripoli amid Flare up |url=http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/119446 |access-date=2024-02-17 |work=Naharnet}}

|Tripoli

|Shooting

|Unknown

|Gunned down in his car by passing motorcyclists

2020s

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!Date

!Victim(s)

!Location

!Method

!Assassin(s)

!Notes

April 4, 2020

|Mohammad Ali Younes, head of Hezbollah's counter espionage unit

|Nabatieh

|Shooting

|Mossad

|His car was ambushed and had at least two stab wounds and four bullet wounds

December 2, 2020

|Mounir Abou Rjeily, head of the anti-smuggling unit in the Higher Customs Council

|Qartaba

|Stabbing

|Unknown

|It was found that the head was injured by a sharp instrument which led to his death.{{Cite web |title=MOUNIR ABOU RJEILY |url=https://www.lokmanslimfoundation.org/New1/database_detail/11159/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Lokman Slim Foundation |language=en}}

February 4, 2021

|Lokman Slim, publisher, political activist and commentator

|Addousiyeh{{Cite web |title=LOKMAN MOHSEN SLIM |url=https://www.lokmanslimfoundation.org/New1/database_detail/11158/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Lokman Slim Foundation |language=en}}

|Shooting

|Hezbollah (Disputed)

|Stated that Hezbollah supporters had been threatening him at his home and accusing him of treason before his murder.{{Cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Cameron |date=2021-02-04 |title=Lebanese activist who spoke out against Hezbollah found dead in car |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/news/537474-lebanese-activist-who-spoke-out-against-hezbollah-found-dead-in-car |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=TheHill |language=en}}

July 30, 2023

|Abu Ashraf al Armoushi, Fatah militant

|Ain el-Hilweh

|Shooting

|Shabab Al-Muslim

|Islamist militants ambushed a Fatah military general in a parking lot, killing him and three bodyguards.

August 6, 2023

|Elias Hasrouni, former Lebanese Forces official{{cite news |last1=Prentis |first1=Jamie |date=11 August 2023 |title=Murder claims after suspicious death of Lebanese Forces official in south Lebanon |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/lebanon/2023/08/11/murder-claims-after-suspicious-death-of-lebanese-forces-official-in-south-lebanon/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=The National}}

|Ain Ebel

|Shooting

|Hezbollah

|Lebanese Forces veteran was found murdered in his car at his hometown.

January 2, 2024

|Saleh al-Arouri, deputy leader of Hamas

|Dahieh

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Killed along with six others by an Israeli drone strike in Dahieh, Beirut.{{Cite news |date=2023-01-02 |title=Israeli drone kills deputy Hamas chief in Beirut |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/explosion-southern-beirut-suburb-dahiyeh-two-security-sources-2024-01-02/ |access-date=2023-01-02 |work=Reuters}}

January 8, 2024

|Wissam al-Tawil, commander in Hezbollah's Radwan Force

|Majdel Selm

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Highest ranking Hezbollah official killed during the 2023 Israel–Hezbollah conflict.{{cite news |date=8 January 2024 |title=حزب الله يعلن استشهاد أرفع قيادي بصفوفه منذ بدء الحرب مع الاحتلال ...الشرق الأوسط |trans-title=Hezbollah announces the martyrdom of its highest-ranking leader since the start of the war with the occupation... The Middle East |url=https://www.pressbee.net/show7423312.html?title=%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B9-%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%88%D9%81%D9%87-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B0-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84 |access-date=8 January 2024 |publisher=pressbee |language=Arabic}}

January 9, 2024

|Ali Hussein Barji, Hezbollah aerial forces commander

|Khirbet Selm

|Airstrike

|IDF

|He was killed in an Israeli airstrike while attending the funeral of Wissam al-Tawil

April 7, 2024

|Pascal Suleiman, Lebanese Forces coordinator

|Byblos

|Shooting

|Syrian gang

|His abandoned body was found by Syrian soldiers in the Hawit area of Syria. Motives remain unknown.{{Cite web |title=الوكالة الوطنية للإعلام - Army receives body of citizen Pascal Suleiman from Syrian authorities |url=https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/twitter/686563 |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=National News Agency |language=en}} Labeled as a political assassination by party officials.

April 9, 2024

|Mohammad Srour, Hamas financial administration

|Beit Meri

|Shooting

|Mossad (alleged)

|According to the US Treasury, Srour funneled millions of dollars from Iran to Hamas.{{Cite web |last=National |first=The |date=2024-04-15 |title=Lebanese officials say Mossad killed Hamas financier in Beirut suburb |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/04/15/lebanon-mohammad-srour-hamas-mossad/ |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=The National |language=en}}

June 14, 2024

|Taleb Abdallah, commander of Hezbollah's Naser unit

|Jwaya

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Three other Hezbollah members were killed in the airstrike.{{Cite news |last1=Livni |first1=Ephrat |last2=Ward |first2=Euan |date=2024-06-12 |title=Senior Hezbollah Commander Is Killed in Israeli Strike |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-taleb-abdallah-killed.html |access-date=2024-06-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

July 30, 2024

|Fuad Shuker, senior Hezbollah leader and member of the Jihad Council

|Haret Hreik

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Six other deaths including Iranian military advisor, Milad Bidi.

August 9, 2024

|Samer al-Hajj, Hamas security agent.{{cite web |date=9 August 2024 |title=Israel steps up attacks in Lebanon, kills Hamas official |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/israel-steps-up-attacks-in-lebanon-kills-hamas-official |work=Al Jazeera}}

|Sidon

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Two civilians, a Palestinian and a Lebanese, were also injured.{{cite web |date=9 August 2024 |title=Israel assassinates Hamas leader in Lebanon |url=https://qudsnen.co/?p=46339 |work=Quds Network}}

rowspan="2" |September 20, 2024

|Ibrahim Aqil, Redwan Force founder

| rowspan="2" |Haret Hreik

| rowspan="2" |Airstrike

| rowspan="2" |IDF

| rowspan="2" |Fourteen other Hezbollah members and 29 civilians killed.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-21 |title="إسرائيل" توسّع الحرب بعملية ضخمة دمّرت مبنييْن في الضاحية: استشهاد مؤسّس قوة الرضوان إبراهيم عقيل وهيئة أركانها |url=https://alqudsnews.net/post/208964/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3-%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B6%D8%AE%D9%85 |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=وكالة القدس للأنباء |language=ar}}

Ahmed Wehbe, Redwan Force leader
September 24, 2024

|Ibrahim Qobeissy, Hezbollah missiles unit leader

|Ghobeiry

|Airstrike

|IDF

|At least six people were killed and 15 others injured{{cite news | url = https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1428304/israeli-air-force-continues-to-bombard-southern-lebanon-and-the-bekaa-entire-families-have-been-killed-day-354-of-the-gaza-war.html | title = At least 569 killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since Monday: Day 354 of the Gaza war {{!}} Israel claims to have 'eliminated' Ibrahim Qobeissy, a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut's southern suburbs: Day 354 of the Gaza war | work = L'Orient Today | date = 24 September 2024 |language=en}}

September 26, 2024

|Muhammad Hussein Srour, Hezbollah air force leader

|Beirut

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Another person killed and 15 injured.{{cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/26/israel-attacks-lebanon-live-72-killed-in-latest-wave-of-israeli-attacks?update=3205388|title=Hezbollah confirms killing of commander in Beirut|work=Al Jazeera|date=27 September 2024}}

rowspan="4" |September 27, 2024

|Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah

| rowspan="4" |Bourj el-Barajneh

| rowspan="4" |Airstrike

| rowspan="4" |IDF

| rowspan="4" |

Abbas Nilforoushan, Brigadier general of the IRGC
Ali Karaki, Jihad Council member
Nabil Qaouk, Deputy head of Hezbollah's executive council
September 29, 2024

|Fatah Sharif, chairman of UNRWA's Teachers' Association

|Tyre

|Airstrike

|IDF

|He was killed along with his wife and two children, in the Al-Bass refugee camp in Tyre district, southern Lebanon.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-04 |title=المنبر العربي للثقافة و الفنون يستهجن سياسة ادارة الاونروا |url=https://ida2at.org/article/114927-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AC%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7 |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=إضآءات}}

October 1, 2024

|Muhammad Ja'far Qasir, Hezbollah financer

|Jnah

|Airstrike

|IDF

|{{Cite web |title=ادرعي يزعم إغتيال "قائد الوحدة 4400 في حزب الله" |url=https://www.lebanondebate.com/news/667128 |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=www.lebanondebate.com}}

rowspan="2" |October 3, 2024

|Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah's Executive Council

| rowspan="2" |Dahieh

| rowspan="2" |Airstrike

| rowspan="2" |IDF

| rowspan="2" |Deaths only confirmed on October 23, 2024

Hussein Ali Hazimah
rowspan="2" |October 5, 2024

|Said Atallah, Hamas in Lebanon commander

| rowspan="2" |Beddawi camp, Tripoli

| rowspan="2" |Airstrike

| rowspan="2" |IDF

| rowspan="2" |Attallah was also killed alongside his wife and two daughters{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=2024-10-05 |title=Israeli airstrike kills Hamas military leader Saeed Atallah Ali, his family in Lebanon |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/israeli-airstrikes-kill-hamas-military-leader-saeed-atallah-ali-his-family-in-lebanon-hezbollah-offensive-iran-latest-updates-2024-10-05-955631 |access-date=2024-10-05 |website=www.indiatvnews.com |language=en}}

Mohammad al-Mahmoud, weapons manufacturer
October 8, 2024

|Souheil Hussein Husseini, Hezbollah headquarter commander

|Beirut

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Husseini participated in weapon transfers between the Hezbollah and Iran.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=IDF eliminates Hezbollah's Suhail Hussein Husseini, commander of terror group's headquarters |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-823681#google_vignette |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}}

November 11, 2024

|Salim Ayyash, Hezbollah assassin

|Al-Qusayr, Syria

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Ayyash participated in the Assassination of Rafic Hariri.

November 17, 2024

|Mohammad Afif, Hezbollah spokesperson

|Ras el Nabaa, Beirut

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Was killed in the Ba'ath Party headquarters in Beirut.{{Cite web |last=Presse |first=AFP-Agence France |title=Lebanon Security Source Says Hezbollah Spokesman Killed In Beirut Strike |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/lebanon-security-source-says-hezbollah-spokesman-killed-in-beirut-strike-3e3fe86d |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=www.barrons.com |language=en-US}}

February 17, 2025

|Mohammed Shaheen

|Sidon, Sidon District

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Al-Qassam Brigades leader killed by an air strike on his vehicle, during the February 2025 ceasefire in the Gaza war.{{cite news | title = Hamas leader killed in Israeli strike on south Lebanon | url = https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-leader-killed-israeli-strike-south-lebanon | work = Middle East Eye | date = 17 February 2025 | quote = Hamas leader Mohammed Ibrahim Shaheen was killed in an Israeli air strike on his vehicle in Sidon, southern Lebanon, the Palestinian group confirmed on Monday. }}

April 20, 2025

|Hussein Ali Nasr, Unit 4400 deputy commander

|Kaouthariyat as-Siyad, Sidon District

|Airstrike

|IDF

|Unit 4400 deputy commander was killed by an IDF airstrike on his vehicle injuring two others.{{Cite web |last=Daoud |first=David |date=2025-04-21 |title=Israel kills Hezbollah Unit 4400 deputy commander amid allegations of continued smuggling |url=https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2025/04/israel-kills-hezbollah-unit-4400-deputy-commander-amid-allegations-of-continued-smuggling.php |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=FDD's Long War Journal |language=en-US}}

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