Word: tyre
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...when more than 100,000 were displaced as a result of Druze victories following the Israeli pullout from the mountains. The fighting cast a shadow over Lebanon's few moments of joy last week. They came when Israel pulled back its troops from the port city of Tyre, which has been occupied since the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6, 1982. As Israeli tanks withdrew, Shi'ite Amal militiamen drove in to a huge welcome from the residents of Tyre. The fighters began rounding up collaborators, although Daoud Daoud, an Amal leader, insisted that...
...assault on Zrariyah was a blow to the resistance movement, it brought little respite for the Israelis. The next day, two Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush. The same day, a car exploded on a road south of Tyre, killing five Lebanese civilians; the vehicle had apparently been heading for an Israeli outpost or convoy, but blew up prematurely. In Zrariyah, the governor of southern Lebanon, Halim Fayad, issued a warning: "New suicide attacks will be launched. We are ready to avenge this massacre...
Though the first withdrawal phase has been completed, the Israelis are still occupying the heartland of Shi'ite resistance, dozens of hill villages to the northeast of Tyre. So far, two senior Israeli officers and a sergeant have been killed behind the new lines. A pro-Israeli militia, the South Lebanon Army, once estimated to number over 2,000, has lost a third of its members through defections in recent months, and could disintegrate completely once the Israelis have pulled back behind their border. Israel has faced a dismal choice: to stay on in Lebanon, sustaining more casualties and serving...
...live bomb--took a car or pickup, put half a ton of high explosives in it and drove it with the intention of blowing himself up with the target. The Shi'ites did it to the (U.S.) Marines in Beirut, to the French paratroopers and to us in Tyre. In my opinion, the Shi'ites have the potential for a kind of terrorism that we have not yet experienced...
...Israeli military headquarters in Tyre is destroyed by a car bomb; 29 Israelis and 32 Arab detainees killed...