The Battle of the Hotels, also known as the “Hotel front” or “Front des Hôtels” in French, was a subconflict within the 1975-77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War which occurred in the Minet-el-Hosn hotel district of downtown Beirut. This area was one of the first fronts of the war that opened up in 1975. This episode of the civil war resulted in pushing the Christian militias out of the area, in particular the numerous hotels in the vicinity, including the St. Georges, Holiday Inn Beirut, Palm Beach, Normandy, Alcazar, Hilton, Excelsior and Phoenicia Inter-Continental hotels.[citation needed]
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| - The Battle of the Hotels, also known as the “Hotel front” or “Front des Hôtels” in French, was a subconflict within the 1975-77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War which occurred in the Minet-el-Hosn hotel district of downtown Beirut. This area was one of the first fronts of the war that opened up in 1975. This episode of the civil war resulted in pushing the Christian militias out of the area, in particular the numerous hotels in the vicinity, including the St. Georges, Holiday Inn Beirut, Palm Beach, Normandy, Alcazar, Hilton, Excelsior and Phoenicia Inter-Continental hotels.[citation needed]
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- LNM: ~1,500
- Lebanese Arab Army: ~300
- PLO: ~500
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| - Conflict between the Lebanese Front and the Lebanese National Movement
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- George Habash
- Nayef Hawatmeh
- Muhsin Ibrahim
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Hagop Hagopian
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23px Yasser Arafat
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Musa al-Sadr
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22px|border Saad Haddad
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Lt. Ahmed al-Khatib
- Dany Chamoun
- Tony Franjieh
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| - The still badly damaged Holiday Inn Beirut in the hotel district of Beirut, with the Phoenicia InterContinental in front of it on the right in 2009
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| Casualties
| - 200(xsd:integer)
- 500(xsd:integer)
- 750(xsd:integer)
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| Result
| - *Division of Beirut
* Displacement of Christians in the Muslim/Leftist-controlled West Beirut
* Lebanese Front expulsion from West Beirut
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- Lebanese National Movement
* 22px|border Al-Mourabitoun
* 22px|border Progressive Socialist Party
* 22px|border Lebanese Communist Party
* Organization of Communist Action
* 22px|border Pro-Syrian Ba'ath Faction
* 22px|border Pro-Iraqi Ba'ath Faction
* 22px|border Syrian Social Nationalist Party
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Amal
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ASALA
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23px PLO
* 23px Fatah
* 23px As-Sa'iqa
* PFLP
* DFLP
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Lebanese Arab Army
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| - The Battle of the Hotels, also known as the “Hotel front” or “Front des Hôtels” in French, was a subconflict within the 1975-77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War which occurred in the Minet-el-Hosn hotel district of downtown Beirut. This area was one of the first fronts of the war that opened up in 1975. The battle was the first truly large-scale confrontation between the Christian-conservative Lebanese Front and the Leftist-Muslim Lebanese National Movement (LNM) militias and PLO fighters.[citation needed] The battle was fought for the possession of a small hotel complex adjacent to the gilded Corniche seafront area on the Mediterranean, in the north-western corner of the downtown district of Beirut. It quickly spread to other areas of central Beirut. The often fierce battles that ensued were fought with heavy exchanges of rocket and artillery fire from the various hotel rooftops and rooms. Sniper fire was often commonly utilized. This episode of the civil war resulted in pushing the Christian militias out of the area, in particular the numerous hotels in the vicinity, including the St. Georges, Holiday Inn Beirut, Palm Beach, Normandy, Alcazar, Hilton, Excelsior and Phoenicia Inter-Continental hotels.[citation needed]
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