Editing Jounieh (section)

==== Post Civil War ====
On 18 June 1991 six people were killed and 30 wounded after an explosion at a [[Lebanese Forces]] ammunition dump.<ref>[[Middle East International]] No 403, 28 June 1991, Publishers [[Christopher Mayhew|Lord Mayhew]], [[Dennis Walters|Dennis Walters MP]]; p. 15 ‘twenty-eight days in brief’</ref>

On 7 May 2005, a car bomb exploded between the Christian Sawt al Mahaba [[radio station]] and the Mar Yuhanna [[Church (building)|Church]] in Jounieh. The radio station was destroyed and the church suffered major damage. Twenty-two people were wounded.<ref>{{cite news |author=Farid Emile Chedid |title=Lebanonwire, Live News Direct From Beirut, Lebanon |publisher=Lebanonwire |url=http://www.lebanonwire.com/0505/05050706AFP.asp |url-status=dead |accessdate=25 October 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129052235/http://www.lebanonwire.com/0505/05050706AFP.asp |archivedate=29 November 2014}}</ref>

Today, close to 100,000 people reside in Jounieh. Those who live in its suburbs exceed that number. By the middle of the century, it is predicted that Jounieh will become a suburb of Beirut in a coastal line that forms one city that expands the length of the coastal road at a time when the inhabitants of Lebanon will reach six million plus around the year 2025. The population of Jounieh is majority [[Maronite]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jounieh.gov.lb/index.php |title=أهلاً وسهلاً في بلدية جونيه |access-date=2020-04-13 |archive-date=2020-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203075330/http://www.jounieh.gov.lb/index.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>