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7,127,649 [1] Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (Arabic: مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بيروت, (previously known as Beirut International Airport) (IATA: BEY, ICAO: OLBA) is the only operational commercial airport in Lebanon. It is located in the Southern Suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the ...
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / bay-ROOT; [3] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ / b eɪ ˈ r uː t /) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, [4] which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world.
Airport name Public airports Beirut: OLBA BEY Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport / Beirut Air Base: Other military airports Qleiaat: OLKA KYE Rene Mouawad Air Base (Kleyate Airport) Rayak: OLRA Rayak Air Base: Hamat: Wujah Al Hajar Air Base: Other airstrips Baadaran: Baadaran Airport: Baalbek: Baalbek Ayat Airfield: Marjayoun ...
The 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon, code-named Operation Gift (Hebrew: מבצע תשורה, mivtza t'shura), was an Israeli Special Forces operation at the Beirut International Airport in the evening of December 28, 1968, in retaliation for the attack on the Israeli Airliner El Al Flight 253 two days earlier by the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Wujah Al Hajar Air Base. Categories: Airports by country. Airports in Asia by country. Aviation in Lebanon. Transport buildings and structures in Lebanon. Tourism in Lebanon. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Middle East Airlines - Air Liban was founded on 31 May 1945 by Saeb Salam and Fawzi EL-Hoss with operational and technical support from BOAC. Operations started on 1 January 1946 using three de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapides on flights between Beirut and Nicosia, followed by flights to Iraq, Egypt, and Syria. Two Douglas DC-3s were acquired in ...
On 8 May 1958 a Lebanese journalist, Nasib Al Matni, was assassinated in his office in Beirut. [16] He was a pro-Nasserist and anti-Chamoun Maronite. [16] Following this incident intensive protests occurred in Beirut and Tripoli. [16] In 1958, Camille Chamoun was in the sixth and final year of his term as President of Lebanon. [17]
Displaced. ≈300,000. On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...