An alert Israeli patrol boat crew prevented a terrorist attack Friday night against a civilian settlement in northern Israel, an army communique reported Sunday. The communique stated that an Israeli patrol boat intercepted a rubber dinghy carrying terrorists and that after a short but fierce artillery exchange sank the vessel near Rosh Hanikra off the Israel-Lebanon coast. According to the army communique, the terrorists fired a salvo of rockets at the Israeli boat and the Israeli crew returned fire. One of the occupants of the dinghy was hit and fell overboard. He was declared as missing. Three other terrorists on the vessel were captured and questioned. The dinghy, which was sunk, appeared to have sailed directly from Lebanon and was not, as in previous incidents, launched from a mother ship.
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