2006 Tyre raid

The Tyre raid was a night mission by the Israel Defense Forces naval commando unit, Shayetet 13, in Tyre, South Lebanon, on August 5, 2006. The alleged target was an apartment building, housing a Hezbollah cell responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera a day earlier. Lebanese sources reported that the IDF commando forces arrived in helicopters around 1:00 a.m. 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 an apartment building, which was the apparent target of the raid. The apartment was hit by fire, and eyewitnesses reported its occupants were wounded. The Israelis apparently failed to achieve its target, the killing of a senior Hezbollah...