1970s

1975

February 26: Assassination of Maaruf Saad in Saida, while he was leading a protest against plans to privatize the fishing sector in Lebanon.

April 13: Ain-al-Rumannah incident. A bus carrying Lebanese and Palestinian civilians was attacked. 27 passengers were killed and 19 wounded. This was claimed as a retaliation to an earlier attack on a church in the same area.

October 24: Battle of the Hotels that lasted several months. These street battles started in Beirut defining demarcation lines which, divided the city into East and West sides.

December 6: Black Saturday, sectarian violence spread. By the end of the day, at least 300 Muslims and an equal number of Christians have been murdered on arbitrary roadblocks.