Monday, 19 Oct 2026 19 Shawwal 2026 AH Beirut
📰 2 sources 3 articles · 19 Oct 2026, 09:13 → 1 hour ago

14th anniversary of Wissam al-Hassan's assassination: Saad Hariri and Ahmad Hariri commemorate his sacrifice

On 19 October 2026, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri marked the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan and First Lieutenant Ahmad Sahyouni, killed on 19 October 2012 when a car bomb targeted al-Hassan's car on Ibrahim al-Monzer Street in Beirut's Ashrafieh area. Hariri recalled al-Hassan's vision of a "just and independent" state, saying he paid his blood as its price, while Future Movement Secretary-General Ahmad Hariri stressed that al-Hassan paid his blood as the price for protecting Lebanon.

📍 Where things stand: So far the developments consist only of commemorative statements and posts by Future Movement leaders on the 14th anniversary of the assassination, with no new judicial or security development.

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  1. 19 Oct 2026, 09:13 Saad Hariri published a post commemorating Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan with the phrase "he paid his blood as its price".
  2. 19 Oct 2026, 09:17 On the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan and First Lieutenant Ahmad Sahyouni, Hariri commemorated them, recalling al-Hassan's vision of the state he wanted, "just and independent", and affirming that he paid his blood as its price. Al-Hassan and Sahyouni were killed on 19 October 2012 when a car bomb targeted al-Hassan's car on Ibrahim al-Monzer Street in Beirut's Ashrafieh area, causing a number of casualties.
  3. 19 Oct 2026, 18:49 Future Movement Secretary-General Ahmad Hariri said, on the anniversary of Wissam al-Hassan's assassination, that al-Hassan paid his blood as the price for protecting Lebanon, renewing the pledge to him, to Ahmad Sahyouni and to all the martyrs of the Cedar Revolution, and stressing that their sacrifices are a trust that cannot be bargained over and that their right to justice does not lapse.
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"He paid his blood as the price for it"... Hariri remembers Wissam al-Hassan
Hariri recalled Wissam al-Hassan with the phrase "He paid his blood as the price for it" in a post.