Ramlet al-Baida

The beach is situated along the southern end of the Corniche Beirut promenade where Avenue General de Gaulle meets Avenue Rafic Hariri and ends at Rue Venezuela.

On April 10, 1973, a seaborne Israeli commando unit that landed in Dora, departed from Ramlet al- Bayda after assassinating PLO officials, Muhammad Al Najjar, Kamal Adwan, and Kamal Nasser.

In 1983, a terrorist group, believed to be Iranian-backed,[3] bombed the barracks of the French peacekeepers that were stationed four miles from the beach area.

[5] Hotel Beau Rivage, which overlooked the beach, was the headquarters of the Syrian intelligence in Beirut from 1997 to 2005.

The hotel became the center for detaining Lebanese dissidents and synonymous with torture and human rights violations.