Joud el Bayeh

Joud el Bayeh was a Lebanese Kataeb party leader, responsible for the area of Zgharta,[1] in the North of Lebanon,[2][3] who was assassinated on June 7, 1978,[4] which is believed to have triggered the Ehden Massacre. Joud was the bank director of the Banque de la Méditerrannée (later became BankMed) in Chekka, president of the municipal council of Kfardlakos (a village in Zgharta) and vice-president of the Zgharta region of the Kataeb.[5]

Assassination

In 1978, tensions were high in the North between the Kataeb and Marada parties over power in the region. Bayeh attempted to open a Phalanges (Kataeb) office in Zgharta, before he was killed on June 8, 1978, by six armed men sent by Tony Franjieh. Six days later, on June 13[6], Kataeb leader Bashir Gemayel decided to strike back killing Franjyeh, his family (including his wife Vera Frangieh, their three-year-old daughter Jihane), and thirty other Marada bodyguards and aides, which came to be known as the Ehden Massacre.

The raid was carried out by a commando force of 500 members[7]. Commander Elie Hobeika was responsible for firing the deadly shots, and commander Samir Geagea was wounded and lost consciousness before getting into the house.

Bashir Gemayel initially tried to settle the problem by negotiations, through the Maronite Patriarch Antonios Khreich, but these negotiations did not bring results. Gemayel then decided to retaliate with a reprisal raid deep into Frangieh's mansion in Ehden. The original plan was to arrest those who had murdered Al Bayeh. It was known that they had been hiding in Frangieh's summer residence in Ehden.[8]

References
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  6. Azzam, Roger J. (2005). Liban L'instruction d'un Crime. Cheminements. p. 292.
  7. Hatem, Robert (1999). From Israel to Damascus (PDF). p. 10. ISBN 0964430436.
  8. "Dossier: Samir Geagea Leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF) movement". aramean-dem.org. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
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