77 original entries, 20 added from the books, 83 days.
1986: day not established
1986 (after January)
Added from the books
Hobeika regroups in Zahle under Syrian protection.
With Syrian help, Hobeika, back via Damascus from a brief exile in France, gathered his supporters in the Bekaa and West Beirut. Syria based him and several hundred men in Zahle, as one of its Christian clients (Picard).
second half of 1986
Added from the books
The PLO and the Christian camp become tacit allies against Syria and Amal.
Gemayel renewed travel documents for 70,000 Palestinians, and PLO weapons and fighters reached the Beirut and southern camps with Lebanese Forces help.
1986
Added from the books
The trade unions lead demonstrations against the war.
The CGTL labour confederation, Christian and Muslim alike, called nationwide strikes against the war, the militias and the fall in living standards, and demanded an economic rescue plan.
Sources differ: Hanf says 1986 saw the confederation's first strike; Haugbolle dates its first national strike to 1985.
1986
Added from the books
The pound collapses and wages lose their value.
In 1986 the pound lost more than half its value against the dollar and prices roughly doubled or more; by the end of the year the minimum wage bought 13 per cent of what it did in 1974.
Sources differ: Inflation for 1986: 162 per cent (Hanf, retail prices) or 95 per cent (de Clerck and Malsagne, Beirut consumer prices); entry 966 gives 204 per cent.
1986
Added from the books
The toll of 1986.
Abou Rjaily and Labaki, quoted by Hanf, count 2,668 dead and 7,237 wounded for 1986. A quarter of that year's dead fell in the camps war and another quarter in clashes between militias of the same confessional bloc.
Sources differ: De Clerck and Malsagne count about 800 victims of the Lebanese Forces' internal fighting alone in 1986.
late January 1986
Added from the books
Syria's allies boycott President Gemayel; the cabinet stops meeting.
Jumblatt, Berri, Prime Minister Karami and Selim al-Hoss refused to attend cabinet sessions chaired by Gemayel, whom Syria and its Lebanese allies boycotted after the Tripartite Agreement collapsed; the cabinet went months without meeting.
January 1986
Added from the books
A wave of assassinations targets Communist and pro-Iraqi Baath leaders.
Assassins killed a number of leading figures in the Lebanese Communist Party and the pro-Iraqi Baath.
Sources differ: Entry 902 places the killing of the Communist leaders Khalil Nous and Souheil Tawileh in late February.
late February 1986
Added from the books
Syrian-backed attacks on the Metn are stopped by the Lebanese army.
Late in February 1986 the army stopped two Syrian-backed SSNP attacks towards Bikfaya, at Douar and on the Baskinta road. A Syrian push on the northern edge of the Christian region failed too. Earlier that month Syrian guns had shelled East Beirut irregularly.
Sources differ: Entry 894 dates the start of fighting on the northern Metn front to 16 January.
May-June 1986
Added from the books
The second camps war between Amal and the PLO.
Amal and the Palestinians fought their second camps war in Beirut in May and June, pausing when army units with a Syrian battalion ringed Chatila and Bourj al-Barajneh late in June.
Sources differ: Hanf has fighting over the Beirut camps starting again as early as March and April 1986.
early June 1986
Added from the books
Amal storms Tarik al-Jdideh.
Residents of Tarik al-Jdideh suffered reprisals after Amal's assault on the Sunni district: the Sixth of February Movement, based there and funded by Arafat's PLO, lost a street battle along with its PSP allies. De Clerck and Malsagne say that year's fighting drove the last Christians out of West Beirut.
June 1986
Added from the books
Patriarch Sfeir meets the Mufti in West Beirut.
Christian and Muslim ministers resumed their consultations, and the newly elected Maronite Patriarch went to West Beirut to meet the Sunni Mufti.
Sources differ: Entry 924 says the meeting set for 22 May was postponed.
late September 1986
Added from the books
The third camps war begins in the south around Rashidiyeh.
Supplies reached the blockaded camps of Rashidiyeh (some 17,000 people), Bourj al-Barajneh and Chatila sporadically; Amal's siege of Rashidiyeh failed.
Sources differ: Hanf dates Amal's siege of Rashidieh to October.
December 1986
Added from the books
France withdraws much of its UNIFIL contingent.
Maintenance and defence units replaced much of the French UNIFIL contingent, 1,390 strong in June, which was withdrawn after a year of repeated and often fatal clashes with Amal.
