Ahmad Jafar Qasir (1963 – November 11, 1982) was a 19-year-old Lebanese youth and a member of the Lebanese Hezbollah, who on November 11, 1982, carried out a

suicide attack A suicide attack (also known by a wide variety of other names, see below) is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack. These attacks are a form of murder–suicide that is ofte ...

on one of the military buildings of the Israeli army in the city of

Tyre, Lebanon Tyre (; ; ; ; ) is a city in Lebanon, and one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa (cons ...

with his car that was full of explosives. 71 Israeli officers and soldiers and

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operatives along with 14 to 27

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and Lebanese prisoners who were kept in the building were killed in this attack. Also, 27 Israelis and 28

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were injured during the attack.

Birth

Ahmad Qasir was born in 1963 in

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(

Deir Qanoun En Nahr Deir Qanoun an-Naher () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. Etymology According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, Deir Kânûn meant: the convent of the rule (canon). History In the early 1860s ...

, one of the suburbs of Tyre).

Political and military activities

He was attracted to Lebanon's Hezbollah and attacked one of the Israeli army buildings in a suicide operation with a white Peugeot 504 car filled with explosives. This operation was carried out following Israel's attack on southern Lebanon during the

1982 Lebanon war The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization ...

and on November 11, 1982. In this suicide operation, 71 Israeli officers and soldiers and

agents were killed along with 14 to 27

and Lebanese prisoners who were kept in the building. Also, 27

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and 28

were injured during the attack. Ahmad Qasir's

is the first suicide operation carried out by

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of Lebanon. The day of this operation was named Martyr's Day by

Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah (, ; 31 August 196027 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024. Bor ...

, the former Secretary General of Hezbollah of Lebanon, and he gave the title of "Amir al-Esteshhadiyun" (') to Ahmad Qasir. Two years later, his brother ''(Hassan Qasir)'' also killed a number of Israeli military personnel during a suicide operation. In Iran, Bucharest street in

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near Arjantin Square has been renamed to "Ahmad Qasir" after his martyrdom. Of course, after some time, this name was removed from that street for some reasons.

References

External links

Who is martyr Ahmad Qasir

Billboard commemorating martyr Ahmad Qasir, Tyre, Lebanon, 2012

Sacrifice and Self-Martyrdom in Shi‘ite Lebanon

Martyrs as Preachers

‘Ahmad’...The Spark of Purple Victory
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Birth

Political and military activities

See also

References

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