Maarakeh bombing

Maarakeh bombing
Ruins of the mosque
LocationMaarakeh, Southern Lebanon
Coordinates33°16′N 35°18′E / 33.267°N 35.300°E / 33.267; 35.300
Date4 March 1985
Attack type
Bombing
Deaths15
Injured55

The Maarakeh bombing took place on 4 March 1985, a bomb exploded in a Shiite religious center (Hussainiya) in the southern Lebanese village of Maarakeh.[1][2] 15 people were killed, including two leaders of the Amal movement that was fighting Israel, and 55 were injured.[3][4][5][6] Author Nicholas Blanford said that the bomb was "planted by the Israelis during the earlier raid" [on 2 March][7][8] while according to Robert Fisk, French intelligence in Lebanon believed that Israel planted the bomb. Israel denied involvement. In 2018, Ronen Bergman wrote in Rise and Kill First, that it was Mossad agents commanded by Meir Dagan who planted the bomb.[9]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :03 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Border attack on Israeli troops shows rising Shiite ire". Christian Science Monitor. 1985-03-11. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  3. ^ "Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Lebanon document - Letter from Lebanon". Question of Palestine. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  4. ^ حجازي, فهد (2013-01-01). لبنان من دويلات فينيقيا إلى فيدرالية الطوائف (in Arabic). Al Manhal. ISBN 9796500117294.
  5. ^ Kalil, Khalil Ahmad (2006). الكوميديا السياسية: وجوه في مرآتي [Political Comedy: Faces In My Mirror] (in Arabic). AIRP. ISBN 978-9953-36-873-3.
  6. ^ المستقبل العربي (in Arabic). مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية،. 1985.
  7. ^ "Resistance remembered". Executive Magazine. 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  8. ^ Nicholas Blanford (25 October 2011). Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel. Random House Publishing Group. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-0-679-60516-4.
  9. ^ Bergman, 2018, ch. 21