Odalia Elvo Schweitzer, the daughter of Israel Dor Schweitzer who was present at the first Tzur disaster in the First Lebanon War, told Dekla Aharon Shafran today (Friday) on the program This Morning in Kan Network B that “Father said that it was a terrorist attack. He told the committee that there was a smell of explosives, but His testimony was ignored.”
The investigation of the Tzur disaster opens Odelia Elvo Schweitzer, daughter of Dor Schweitzer to@diklaaharon: “The wheels of justice move slowly. Father is no longer present. For 40 years we have been living with the feeling that the story was fabricated. Father said it was a terrorist attack, not a work accident. He told the committee that there was a smell of explosives, his testimony was ignored.”#this morning pic.twitter.com/FOEoAvnmEG
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Schweitzer commented on the re-opening of the investigation and said that “the wheels of justice move slowly. Father is no longer present. For 40 years we have been living with the feeling that the story has been whitewashed.” She also stated that “we lived through father’s post-trauma, the screams at night. Every time the door slammed, he would prostrate himself on the floor. When he would close his eyes, he would see the bodies of his friends hanging from electrical wires. He left his soul in the Lebanese mud. We want them to know that they are heroes.”
40 years after the disaster, the Shin Bet, the IDF and the police announced yesterday the establishment of a joint inspection team to examine materials related to the circumstances of the disaster. In the collapse of the Israeli military government building in Tzur, which occurred on November 11, 1982, 91 soldiers, policemen and Shin Bet personnel were killed. A committee headed by Major General Meir Zore, appointed after the disaster, determined that it was caused by a gas leak.
Over the years, intelligence information has arrived according to which it is a Hezbollah attack. Apart from that, there was information about a vehicle that fled the scene. The security establishment believes that thanks to modern and advanced technology for analyzing samples and findings, it is possible to generate additional information, which may change the findings since then.
“There is nothing in the establishment of the team to criticize previous tests carried out or the test carried out by the committee” they said in a statement. “The Tzur disaster is a regrettable and painful event on a national scale, and there is a moral importance in fully investigating the event. The IDF, the Shin Bet and the Israel Police participate in the grief of the bereaved families and will continue to accompany them.”