In January 1975, a unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) attacked the Tyre barracks of the Lebanese Army. While the assault was denounced by the PLO as "a premeditated and reckless act", it launched in March a commando of its own eight to sail from the coast of Tyre to Tel Aviv to mount the Savoy Hotel attack, during which eight civilian Hostages and three Israeli soldiers were killed as well as seven of the eight attackers. Five months later Israel attacked Tyre "from land, sea and air" in a series of assaults over some weeks.