Zrarieh raid

Zrarieh raid
Date11 March 1985
Location
Southern Lebanon
West Bank
Gaza Strip
33°34′21″N 35°33′27″E / 33.57250°N 35.55750°E / 33.57250; 35.55750
Result Israeli victory
Belligerents
Israel Amal movement
Casualties and losses
21-40 Lebanese residents killed

The Zrarieh raid was an Israeli raid on the Lebanese village of Zrarieh in Southern Lebanon on 11 March 1985. During the raid between 21 and 40[1][2][3][4] residents were killed.[5][6][7]

According to the Israeli Chief of Staff overseeing operations in South Lebanon at the time, Moshe Levi, the operation was preemptive rather than punitive, and had been in planning for a week, on the basis of intelligence that attacks were being organized against Israeli forces in the area.[2] Excluding the victims of air raids, it constituted the deadliest Israeli action in Lebanon in 30 months,[2] since the summer of 1982.[8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Friedman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c 'Annexe: Jérusalem justifie le ratissage de Zrariyé présenté comme une opération préventive autant que punitive,' in Souha Taraf-Najib, Zrariyé, village chiite du Liban‑Sud de 1900 à nos jours, IFPO 1992, ISBN 978-2-271-05002-1 pp. 123-127, sets the figure at 34.
  3. ^ "الزرارية... الشاهدة والشهيدة". الأخبار (in Arabic). Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  4. ^ Collelo, Thomas; Smith, Harvey Henry; Library of Congress. Federal Research Division (1989). Lebanon : a country study. The Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : The Division : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
  5. ^ Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (16 November 1998). "Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Lebanon document - Letter from Lebanon". Question of Palestine. United Nations. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gumucio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Press Pub. Co. (The New York World) (1923). The World almanac and book of facts. Internet Archive. New York : Press Pub. Co. (The New York World).
  8. ^ Nora Boustany, 'Israeli Raid Kills 34 In Town in S. Lebanon,'Washington Post 12 March 1985.