Word: tyre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tyre, once a lovely city of 60,000 people, with magnificent ruins dating back to the days of Alexander the Great, many homes and other buildings have been hammered into rubble by the Israeli attacks. Quite obviously these structures had no military significance. One can imagine an occasional mistake in wartime; but not when at least 100 civilian homes are destroyed in 24 hours, as happened last weekend. The bombs even hit a hospital to which 70 casualties of the bombings had already been brought. Of those 70 people, not one was a soldier...
Another survivor was Zakia Fahoury, 88. She was lucky to be able to take refuge in a deep cellar where she keeps a supply of canned food and bottled water. Like many of her neighbors, she was determined to remain in Tyre, even though there was no electricity or running water and the Israeli raids could begin again at any time. "If we leave," she reasoned, "we will become like the Palestinians. We will lose our homes and our land...
...Israelis continued their harassment elsewhere, hitting the city of Tyre and Palestinian guerrilla locations around the Litani River. Most of the victims were not Palestinian terrorists but innocent people. In one incident, five Palestinian civilians were killed and 25 were wounded when the Israelis bombed a refugee camp at Al Mohmara, 60 miles north of Beirut, during a wedding ceremony. The dead were all members of the same family...
Within 14 hours of the raid on Nahariya, Israeli gunboats began a four-day barrage of Palestine Liberation Organization bases along the coast, and Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian artillery emplacements north of the Litani River. The Israelis also caused heavy damage in several Lebanese cities and towns, including Tyre. According to the Palestinians, Israeli planes dropped U.S.-made cluster bombs on the villages of Sarafand and Arnoun. In all, at least 50 people were killed in the Israeli attacks. Soon thousands of Lebanese were trying to flee northward, as they had done during the fighting a year ago, taking with...
...three hours we traveled in a U.N. car throughout the whole area without incident: the outskirts of Tyre, the pocket and behind UNIFIL lines. Life appeared to be back to normal everywhere. In the current honeymoon phase, villages are happy to have the Israelis out and UNIFIL in. The troops are now getting voluntary intelligence from the villagers about such things as arms caches and mines in the roads. But as the guerrillas creep back and patience with the U.N. checkpoints wears thin, such cooperation is likely...