2022 was another turbulent year with major events affecting the course of conflicts across the globe. The past twelve months brought the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, witnessed heroic confrontations by Palestinian resistance against Zionist occupation and saw the US-brokered deal aimed at demarcating Lebanon’s maritime border.
In addition to politics, 2022 could be described as a year of turmoil on all health, economic and environmental levels. As COVID entered year 3, inflation reached its highest levels in decades and heat broke new records.
It has been a year like no other. Here is a look back into its most prominent events.
January :
- Omicron cases surge worldwide as number of global COVID infections exceeds 300 million
- Palestinian Prisoner in Israeli Jails Hisham Abu Hawash snatches freedom after 141-day Hunger Striker
February:
- Russian President Vladimir Putin recognizes Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics as sovereign nations
- Russia announces start of special military operation in Ukraine citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements
March:
- Global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 6 million
- UN refugee agency says 1.7 million people fled fighting in Ukraine
April
Another footage from the shooting operation in Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv which so far resulted in at least five injuries among Israeli settlers, four of them in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/AAqma5RWnn
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 7, 2022
- Palestinian resistance heroically repels near-daily raids in Jenin
- 4 Israelis are killed and 11 others injured in 7 Palestinian operations including the heroic shooting staged by Raad Khazem in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street
- Lebanon readies for parliamentary elections
May:
- Al-Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is murdered by Israeli occupation forces in Jenin
- Palestinian operations surge with 4 Israelis killed and 6 injured in four attacks in Al-Quds and the West Bank
- Hezbollah and Amal sweep Shiite seats in Lebanese Parliament
June:
Energean Power the only FPSO in the E-Mediterranean has transited the Suez Canal & arrived on station. The natural #gas it will produce will bring both #energysecurity & competition to the region & help drive #sustainabledevelopment https://t.co/EMPR1qVgka pic.twitter.com/x3tubhmWBh
— Energean (@Energean) June 6, 2022
- Leftist Gustavo Petro wins Colombia’s presidential elections in tight runoff contest
- Zionist Entity moves production vessel, Energean’s FPSO, to Karish field
- Naftali Bennett dissolves Israeli Knesset, calls for early elections
July:
- Hezbollah launches three drones towards Karish field in a clear threat to Zionist entity
- Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a public speech in the city of Nara, Japan.
- CIA strike kills Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the 2nd Emir of Al-Qaeda in Kabul, Afghanistan
- Hezbollah’s Military Media Department releases video showing coordinates of the Israeli platforms operating in the Mediterranean
August:
- Zionist entity launches 3-day aggression on Gaza, targeting Islamic Jihad commanders and killing more than 50 Palestinians
- Fire at Abu Sefein Church in Giza, Egypt, results in 41 deaths
- Lions’ den resistance group emerges in Palestinian city of Nablus
- Dozens are killed, injured in clashes between supporters of Sayyed Muqtada Al-Sadr and security forces
September:
- WHO says end of COVID pandemic is “in sight”
- Outbreak of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan kills about 100 soldiers
- Queen Elizabeth II Dies at 96
- Over 21 million pilgrims mark Imam Hussein’s Arbaeen in Iraqi holy city of Karbala
- Russian President Vladimir Putin announces annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia after referendum
- Yemeni Armed Forces display home-grown missiles in massive parade in Sanaa
- At least 77 migrants die as Lebanese boat sinks off Syria coast
- Violence in Iran after foreign-backed elements exploit demonstrations protesting Mahsa Amini’s death at police custody
October:
- Probe says Mahsa Amini’s death caused by illness rather than alleged “torture”
- Palestinian Udai Tamimi martyred after carrying out 2 operations and keeping Israeli occupation on alert for 10 days
- Lebanon and Zionist entity sign US-brokered maritime border deal
- UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 6 weeks in power
- Zionist entity holds its fifth parliamentary elections in 4 Years
- Imam Khamenei says he was deeply saddened by Mahsa Amini’s death, warns against riots
- Leftist Lula Da Silva wins tight Brazilian presidential elections
- Power vacuum starts in Lebanon and President Michel Aoun leaves Baabda presidential palace on the end of his term
November:
- Democrats retain control of the Senate as Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives in US Mid-term elections
- World population exceeds 8 billion
- China reports new COVID-19 outbreaks
- Finals of 2022 FIFA World Cup kick off in Qatar
- Palestinian hero Mohammad Souf kills 3 Israelis, injures 3 others in major stabbing and car-ramming attack in Salfit
- Benjamin Netanyahu secures 65-seat majority in Israeli parliamentary elections
- Massive blast kills 1 Israeli, wounds dozens others in Al-Quds
December:
- Palestine emerges as the “33rd country of the World Cup”
- The Congress of Peru removes President Pedro Castillo from office and arrests him after he tries to dissolve congress in a coup attempt
- 4 Jordanian security servicemen killed in unrest over fuel prices
- Argentina wins World Cup after epic final against France
- Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid passes away due to Israeli medical negligence
- Lebanese Lira hits historic low against US Dollar, trades at 47,500 for 1 Dollar
Source: Al-Manar English Website
