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Tyre raid
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| 2006 Tyre raid | |||||||
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| Part of 2006 Lebanon War | |||||||
 An IDF Shayetet 13 filmed during the operation in Tyre. |
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 Hezbollah Lebanon |
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| 8 wounded (according to IDF) |
7 dead 1 Lebanese soldier |
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| Military operations of the 2006 Lebanon War |
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| Zar'it-Shtula – Baliste – Maroun al-Ras – Bint Jbeil – Qana – Ayta ash-Shab – Baalbek – al-Qaa – Tyre – Shiyyah – Ghaziyeh – Marjayoun – Litani – Wadi Saluki |
A nighttime Israeli Defense Forces frogmen, Shayetet 13 raid on Tyre, South Lebanon, on August 5, 2006 targeted the Hezbollah cell responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera the day before. The city of Tyre and its environs have become a central base of the long-range rocket fire against Israel.
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Lebanese sources reported that the IDF commando forces arrived by helicopter around 1:00 a.m. in two units, and landed in an orange grove near the city’s northern entrance. The troops cut through a fence and opened fire towards an apartment on the second floor of a building. The apartment was directly hit, and eyewitnesses reported its occupants were wounded.
A gunbattle between soldiers and Hezbollah gunmen erupted, with Israeli Air Force helicopter gunships providing the soldiers on the ground with fire-support.
Some three hours later, at around 4:00 a.m., the soldiers withdrew from the scene. The two severely wounded soldiers as well as the other casualties were airlifted to the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel.[1]
It was reported that the Lebanese Army fired Surface-to-air missiles at the Israeli helicopters, which returned fire, hitting a Lebanese M113 Armored Personnel Carrier and destroying it.
August 8: The Israeli military dropped leaflets, warning of stepped-up operations and urging people not to drive on roads. One leaflet, which a Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. reporter showed on the air, said that "terrorist elements ... are using you as human shields by launching rockets toward the state of Israel from your homes." The translated leaflet continued, "All cars and of any type will be shelled if seen moving south of the Litani River because it will be considered a suspect of transferring rockets, military ammunitions and those causing destruction. "You need to know that anyone moving in any type of car will put their life in danger." The area of Tyre has been a launching point for Hezbollah's Katyusha rockets, about 40 of which had landed by midday in Israel, an Israeli police spokesman said. The Red Cross is allowed to bring ships into the Lebanese ports of Tyre. The destruction of a main road and a makeshift bridge by airstrikes forced Médecins Sans Frontières to bring supplies into the southern Lebanese city of Tyre by forming a human chain across the Litani River, said a spokesman for the aid group.[2]
August 11: Hezbollah TV reported that Hezbollah forces destroyed an Israeli gunboat off the coast of Tyre, Lebanon, killing or wounding a crew of 12, the Associated Press reported. The Israeli military denied Hezbollah's claim, the AP said.[3]
August 12: Israeli airstrikes targeted two buildings in Tyre believed to be associated with Hezbollah, Arab-language news media reported. One of the overnight airstrikes hit a power station in the Tyre suburbs, cutting off electricity in the area, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation reported. News footage showed smoke wafting on the horizon following the airstrikes in the southern port city.[3]
August 13: In the southern port city of Tyre, Israeli airstrikes sent columns of smoke into the air. Arabic-language news networks reported civilians were killed in the strikes. It were some of the heaviest attacks of the 33-day conflict. IDF reported that they shot down two Hezbollah-drones on their way to Israel, one was brought down over western Galilee, the other over Tyre.[4]
August 14: In Tyre, people who had spent days or weeks in cramped, uncomfortable shelters in the mountains, with food and water running low, were anxious to get to their homes and find out what had happened to them. Lebanon's interior ministry issued a statement urging civilians to stay away from their homes until army engineers could inspect them for unexploded cluster bombs or artillery, the Associated Press said.[5]
August 17: About 6,000 Lebanese troops moved south across the Litani River, reclaiming territory taken earlier by the Israeli army. Between 1,800 and 2,000 more Lebanese troops were expected to arrive in the southern port city of Tyre by midday.[6]
August 23: Tekimiti Gilbert, the operations chief of a United Nations mine removal team, told reporters in Tyre: “Up to now there are at least 170 cluster bomb strikes in south Lebanon. It’s a huge problem. There are obvious dangers with people, children, cars. People are tripping over these things.”[7]
August 24: Workers handed out blankets, mattresses, tents and other basic living items, the statement said. UNHCR distributed tents to 30 locations near the port city of Tyre. More supplies, including six truckloads of relief items from Syria and four trailer loads from a French ship, are expected to arrive August 25.[8]
- ^ Courageous Commando Operation in the City of Tzor. Israel Defense Force (5 August 2006). Retrieved on 2006-08-18.
- ^ "Arab League takes Lebanon concerns to U.N. council: report", CNN, 2006-08-08.
- ^ a b "Israel expands campaign as U.N. passes deal", CNN, 2006-08-12.
- ^ "Israel, Hezbollah step up attacks as cease-fire deadline nears", CNN, 2006-08-13.
- ^ "Fighting continues up until cease-fire", CNN, 2006-08-14.
- ^ "Lebanese troops move south as Israel moves out", CNN, 2006-08-17.
- ^ "Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of War Crimes in Lebanon", New York Times, 2006-08-23.
- ^ "Syria opposes U.N. force on border", CNN, 2006-08-24.