4 news for the 31st of February, July
with the booksJuly 31, 1978monday
Lebanese Army units were dispatched to South Lebanon.
They remained there until the end of the year. Christian militias supported by Israel in the South stopped their advance.
They remained there until the end of the year. Christian militias supported by Israel in the South stopped their advance.
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Hanf writes that Major Haddad's forces fired at Kaukaba on the units sent south in early August, men of the 'vanguard' Syria trusted, and drove them into retreat. Haddad later rebelled openly against the army command, and Israel took over paying his men.
July 31, 1982saturday
Around a hundred women from West Beirut headed by the Prime Minister's wife, Whajiha Wazzan, gathered in the American University of Beirut for an open sit-in to protest against the blockade of West Beirut.
July 31, 1985wednesday
President Sleiman Frangieh and Elie Hobeika were reconciled.
July 31, 1987friday
The Security Coucil renews the mandate of the FINUL.