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5 May 2000

⚔Strikes on the Bsalim power station: Lebanon in the dark three weeks before the withdrawal

AttackerIsrael / IDF➜TargetGovernmentHezbollah

On the night of 5 May 2000 Israeli aircraft answered the Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona with raids across Lebanon that destroyed four of the nine transformers of the Bsalim power station and plunged the country into darkness; the last round of exchanged bombardment before the withdrawal.

▲ Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona: the fiercest salvo in a year
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