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Terrorist attack in Lebanon
The
Tyre headquarters bombings
were two
suicide bombings
against the
Israel Defense Forces
' headquarters building in
Tyre
,
Lebanon
, in 1982 and 1983. The blasts killed 103 Israelis and 46?59 Lebanese, wounding 95 people and were some of the worst losses ever for the IDF. The second attack occurred in November 1983 and was attributed to Hezbollah.
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First bombing
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After
invading Lebanon in June
, the Israeli military set up command posts to run the cities they occupied. On November 11, 1982, a
Peugeot
car packed with explosives struck the seven-story building being used by the Israeli military to govern Tyre. The explosion leveled the building and killed 75 Israeli soldiers, border policemen, and
Shin Bet
agents. In addition, anywhere from 14?27 Lebanese and
Palestinian
prisoners that were being held by Israel were killed.
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Twenty-seven Israelis and 28 Arabs were injured.
The Israeli government said soon after the blast, and insists to this day, that the explosion was an accident resulting from
gas cylinders
exploding.
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This is contrary to the three witnesses who saw the Peugeot speed to the building, the identification of the car's parts in the rubble of the building, and the existence of a Shin Bet report detailing the Hezbollah preparations for the bombing.
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There is a monument near
Baalbek
, Lebanon, dedicated to 17-year-old Ahmad Qasir, the suicide bomber responsible for the attack.
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Second bombing
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Almost a year later, a nearly identical bombing happened in Tyre. On November 4, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a
pickup truck
filled with explosives into a
Shin Bet
building at an
IDF
base in Tyre. The explosion killed 28 Israelis and 32 Lebanese prisoners, and wounded about 40 others.
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The attack was carried out by the Shia Lebanese organization
Hezbollah
.
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See also
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References
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a
b
Helmer, Daniel.
"Hezbollah´s - employment of Suicide Bombing During the 1980s"
(PDF)
.
Military Review
.
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Bergman, Ronen (September 2008).
The Secret War With Iran
.
Simon & Schuster
.
ISBN
978-1-4165-5839-2
.
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"Highlights of Main Events: 1982?1984"
.
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
. 28 November 2000.
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Bergman, 64.
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Bergman, 65.
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Hirst, David (2010) 'Beware of Small States. Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East.
Faber and Faber.
ISBN
978-0-571-23741-8
. Page 196.
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Smith, William E. (November 14, 1983).
"Middle East: New Bloodshed, New Hope"
.
Time
. Archived from
the original
on February 20, 2008
. Retrieved
May 26,
2010
.
Further reading
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