1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon

1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon
	Part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre (during Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon)
	; Israeli commandos and rubber boats on a missile boat during the operation
Date	April 9–10, 1973
Location	Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon
Result	IDF special forces achieved their objective
Belligerents
Israel	PLO PFLP;
Commanders and leaders
Emmanuel Shaked; Amnon Lipkin-Shahak; Ehud Barak; Shmuel Presburger; Amos Yaron; Shaul Ze'ev	Yasser Arafat; Kamal Adwan †; Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar †
Casualties and losses
2 killed	50+ killed
	3 Lebanese policemen and 4 civilians killed

The 1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon (also known as Operation Spring of Youth in Hebrew or the Verdun massacre in Arabic) took place on the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973, when Israeli army special forces units attacked several Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) targets in Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon. The operation is generally considered to have been part of Operation Wrath of God, Israel's retaliation for the Munich massacre at the Summer Olympics in 1972.

The Israeli troops arrived at the Lebanese beaches on speedboats launched from missile boats offshore. Mossad agents awaited the forces on the beaches with cars rented the previous day, and then drove them to their targets and later back to the beaches for extraction.

During the operation, three of the highest-level PLO leaders, surprised at home, were killed, along with other PLO members. Several Lebanese security people and civilian neighbors were also killed, as were two of the Israeli soldiers.

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