The American Embassy annex in Christian-dominated east Beirut is devastated in a suicide car bombing attack. At least two Americans and a dozen Lebanese are killed. The Islamic Jihad (Holy War) claims responsibility.
Stepped up attacks on the Israel Defense Force in south Lebanon brings the total of Israelis killed in Lebanon since the war there started, in June, 1982, to 597 with nearly 4,000 injured.
Israeli Premier Shimon Peres predicts that the IDF will be withdrawn from Lebanon in 5745 and Deputy Premier Yitzhak Shamir says that Israel has asked the U.S. to mediate a withdrawal of the IDF with the Syrian government.
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