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The Chyah Airstrike or the Chyah massacre was an attack by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on the Shiyyah suburb in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 7, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War. Two missiles fired from an IDF bomber destroyed three apartment buildings in the suburb. 〔"(With Fatal Blasts, War Invades Quiet Enclave of Beirut ), August 8, 2006"〕 Contemporary news accounts stated that the death toll from the airstrikes rose as recovery efforts continued, with 50 corpses recovered at the time of reportage and 61 anticipated. 〔"(Death toll rises to 41 in Monday's raid on Beirut ), August 9, 2006"〕 〔"(Angry Shi'ites bury the dead after Beirut attack ), August 9, 2006"〕 〔"('Hot air pushed me off my chair. I was on the ground. I thought I was dead' ), August 11, 2006"〕 ==Timeline of events== The nearby area of Haret Hreik, described as "Hizbollah's stronghold", had been targeted over a four-week period prior to the attack on Shiyyah, which had not been targeted by the IAF earlier. Around 8 pm local time, an IAF missile hit a five-storey residential apartment block in Hijaj Street, just outside central Beirut, instantly killing a number of civilians and wounding other residents. The area is a densely populated residential district and predominantly Shi'a. Businesses in Hijaj Street include a supermarket, a hairdressing salon, a fishmonger's, a greengrocer's and a mobile phone shop, with an internet cafe in the basement of the apartment block. Residents stated that there was no Hezbollah activity in the area. Many of the people killed and wounded were refugees from previous violence in South Lebanon.〔"(Terror of war interrupts quiet evening in Shiyyah ), August 8, 2006"〕 Fifteen of the dead were from the Remaiti family which owned a residential building 〔 in Asaad al-Assad street. According to survivors, before the missiles exploded, an Israeli drone flew over the Shiyyah district. At the same time, it is reported that a young boy drove down Assaad al-Assad street on a motorcycle and fired into the sky with a rifle opposite the Remaiti home. Not long afterwards, the building was hit by two missiles. 〔 "(Robert Fisk: What do you say to a man whose family is buried under the rubble? ), August 9, 2006"〕 〔 "(With Fatal Blasts, War Invades Quiet Enclave of Beirut(page 2) ), August 9, 2006"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chyah airstrike」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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