After numerous attacks and reprisals involving the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) Israel invaded , as part of the so-called 1978 South Lebanon conflict , and Tyre was badly damaged . Following an assassination attempt on Israeli ambassador Argov in London it was damaged again in the 1982 Lebanon War . The city was used as a base by the PLO and was nearly destroyed by Israeli artillery . After the 1982 war , the city was the site of an Israeli military post . In late 1982 , and again in November 1983 , buildings housing Israeli headquarters were destroyed by bombs , causing dozens of deaths in both cases and known in Israel as the First and Second Tyre Catastrophes . The 1983 explosion by a suicide truck happened only 10 days after similar attacks , the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings of US Marines and French paratroop barracks . Israel and the US blame Iran and Hezbollah for all explosions , but they have denied any involvement
1983 Beirut barracks bombings
1983 Beirut barracks bombings
Tyre, Lebanon