On Thursday, a military ceremony will be held at the Memorial Hall on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to commemorate the deaths of 104 Israelis in 1982 and 1983 in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre following the Peace for Galilee campaign. 76 died in the 1982 incident, which Israel attributes to exploding gas cylinders at its security headquarters and others say was a suicide bombing. 28 died about a year later in a suicide bombing.
Memorial organizer Lior Biton, the son of one of the victims was six at the time of the first incident. He told Arutz Sheva that the idea for the observance, the first to be held in memory of the incidents, was born when his daughter first called him father and made him think how the notion had been missing from his life.