Front page of “L'Orient-Le Jour,” Feb. 22, 1973. OLJ archive photo.
On Nov. 1, the elite Israeli unit Shayetet-13 (S-13) kidnapped the young Lebanese civilian ship captain Imad Amhaz, a "member of Hezbollah" according to the Israeli army. However, this operation in Batroun was not the first landing of the elite unit on the Lebanese coast. Since 1958, Flotilla 13, created nine years earlier, has carried out a series of commando operations in Lebanon.Even before the start of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, the missions of this elite naval commando unit typically involved intercepting Palestinian guerrilla ships, blowing up headquarters and key installations, setting ambushes and planting explosives on enemy routes. Read more Mossad in Lebanon (2/3): ‘Now, they want to kill’ L’Orient-Le Jour looks back at nine of these operations, which are among the best known and best documented:Port of Beirut,...
On Nov. 1, the elite Israeli unit Shayetet-13 (S-13) kidnapped the young Lebanese civilian ship captain Imad Amhaz, a "member of Hezbollah" according to the Israeli army. However, this operation in Batroun was not the first landing of the elite unit on the Lebanese coast. Since 1958, Flotilla 13, created nine years earlier, has carried out a series of commando operations in Lebanon.Even before the start of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, the missions of this elite naval commando unit typically involved intercepting Palestinian guerrilla ships, blowing up headquarters and key installations, setting ambushes and planting explosives on enemy routes. Read more Mossad in Lebanon (2/3): ‘Now, they want to kill’ L’Orient-Le Jour looks back at nine of these operations, which are among the best known and best documented:Port of...
