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==The attack==
Located on [[Hamra Street]], the [[Wimpy (restaurant)|Wimpy Cafe]] was
In the afternoon on September 24, 1982 Khaled Alwan, a 19-year-old member of the [[Syrian Social Nationalist Party]] (SSNP) walked along the sidewalk. Reaching the Wimpy Cafe, he opened fire on Israeli soldiers at Wimpy.<ref name="fm"/><ref name="d2">''Daily Star''. ''[http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/1998/Jan-20/18189-wimpy-reopens-in-heart-of-hamras-cafe-society.ashx Wimpy reopens in heart of Hamra’s café society]''</ref><ref name="d1"/><ref name="e"/><ref name="محمد،كريستين2005"/> He killed an Israeli officer with his pistol and injured two Israeli soldiers accompanying the officer (one injured in the chest, the other in the neck).<ref name="e">{{cite book|title=Near East/South Asia Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1iS6AAAAIAAJ|edition=84165|year=1984|publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service|page=35}}</ref><ref name="محمد،كريستين2005">{{cite book|author1=بزي، يوسف محمد،|author2=طعمه، كريستين|author3=سلطي، رشا|title=نظر الي ياسر عرفات وابتسم :: يوميات مقاتل /|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=llgZAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=الجمعية اللبنانية للفنون التشكيلية، أشكال ألوان،|isbn=978-9953-0-0540-9|page=29}}</ref> After the shooting, Alwan walked home calmly.<ref name="Larkin2012">{{cite book|author=Craig Larkin|title=Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the Past|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gd3FBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT126|date=15 March 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-49061-3|page=126}}</ref> Popular legend has it that Alwan had been upset with seeing the Israeli officer insisting to pay his bill at Wimpy with [[Old Israeli shekel|shekel]]s.<ref name="Larkin2012"/>▼
▲In the afternoon on September 24, 1982 Khaled Alwan, a 19-year-old member of the [[Syrian Social Nationalist Party]] (SSNP)
==Aftermath==
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==Legacy==
The SSNP commemorates the Wimpy Operation annually.<ref name="d1">''Daily Star''. ''[http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2000/Sep-30/12717-alwans-one-man-war-remembered.ashx Alwan’s one-man war remembered]''</ref> In 2000, the site of the attack was renamed "Place Khaled Alwan" by the municipality of Beirut, in honour of his contributions to the resistance.<ref name="fm"/><ref name="d1"/> In 2003 Alwan, who was killed in an
In ''Memory and Conflict in Lebanon'', Craig Larkin argues that the "[t]he mythical power of this act" enabled a narrative which helped subsume memories of intra-Lebanese violence in the [[Lebanese Civil War|Civil War]] in favour of a "more pressing narrative of Israeli aggression and violence".<ref name="Larkin2012"/>
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