The Tyre raid was a night mission by the Israel Defense Forces frogmen, Shayetet 13 in Tyre, South Lebanon, on August 5, 2006. It targeted the Hezbollah cell responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera on the previous day. This was due to the city of Tyre and its environs having become a central base of the long-range rocket fire against the territory of Israel.
Lebanese sources reported that the IDF commando forces arrived in helicopters around ...
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The Tyre raid was a night mission by the Israel Defense Forces frogmen, Shayetet 13 in Tyre, South Lebanon, on August 5, 2006. It targeted the Hezbollah cell responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera on the previous day. This was due to the city of Tyre and its environs having become a central base of the long-range rocket fire against the territory of Israel.
Lebanese sources reported that the IDF commando forces arrived in helicopters around 1:00 a.m. as two units, and landed in an orange grove near the city’s northern environs. The troops cut through a fence and opened fire on a second floor apartment of a building. The apartment was hit by direct fire, and eyewitnesses reported its occupants were wounded.
The exchange of fire between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah gunmen erupted, with Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache 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 area. Two...
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