TEL
AVIV – On Tuesday, Israeli media commented on the events of Monday night in
Gaza, stating that “what happened is a terrifying tragedy and reminds us of the
disaster of Tyre in Lebanon and the destruction of the military governor’s
headquarters on the heads of more than 100 [
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)]
soldiers and officers.”
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These
statements came after the IOF reported the deaths of 24 of their officers and soldiers as a result of the
destruction of two booby-trapped buildings.
Al-Qassam Brigades had set up large
explosive devices in an IOF base previously, Al-Ghad reported.
According
to Israeli media, a
high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shell hit a tank,
destroying it. Itay Blumental, the military journalist for the Israeli station
KAN, reported that the IOF has lost 224 of its
soldiers since
October 7. Israeli media explained that the incident occurred
near Kissufim, 600m away from the border with the Strip.
The Tyre incident—what do we know about it?
Israeli
media compares the event to their defeat in Tyre. The events in Lebanon were
two suicide bombings at the headquarters of the IOF in 1982 and 1983. The two
explosions killed 103 Israelis, 46–59 Lebanese, and injured 95 people. It is
the IOF's worst loss.
After
invading Lebanon in June, the IOF established command sites to manage the
cities it occupied. On November 11, 1982, a Peugeot car carrying explosives
struck the seven-story structure that the IOF used to rule Tyre. The explosion
leveled the building, killing 75 Israeli soldiers, a border policeman, and Shin
Bet agents. In addition, 14–27 Lebanese and
Palestinian prisoners held by
Israel were killed. 27 Israelis and 28 Arabs were injured.
After
the explosion, the Israeli government immediately reported the incident, still
insisting to this day that the blast was an accident caused by the explosion of
gas cylinders. This contradicts the three eyewitnesses who saw the Peugeot car
entering the building and the existence of a Shin Bet report that predicts a
Hezbollah attack. Additionally, officials identified parts of the car in the
rubble of the building.
There
is a memorial near
Baalbek dedicated to Ahmad Qasir, 17, who was responsible
for the attack.
The
second bombing was about a year later when a similar bombing took place in
Tyre. A suicide bomber crashed a small truck full of explosives into a Shin Bet
building. The explosion killed 28 Israelis and 32 Lebanese prisoners, wounding
about 40 others.
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