This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Military engagements and attacks Evacuations Response Related topics 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 target was an apartment building, allegedly housing Hezbollah leaders responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera a day earlier.

[4] 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.

Two severely wounded soldiers, as well as the other casualties, were airlifted to the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel.

[2] IDF claimed to have shot “two or three Hezbollah commanders” thereby “taking out” a key guerrilla unit involved in firing long-range rockets into Israel.