Soldiers of the Dutch contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) intercepted eight terrorists in their sector last Saturday night and forced them to leave the area after confiscating their weapons, a UNIFIL spokesman said today. He said the terrorists were members of George Habash’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Meanwhile, the UNIFIL command has lodged a complaint with the PLO in Beirut against the firing of 24 missiles from PLO positions toward the UNIFIL-held area. There were no casualties, the UNIFIL spokesman said.
The UN forces in Lebanon have been receiving their food, spare parts and other supplies through the port of Haifa in Israel for the past two weeks because renewed fighting in Beirut has closed the port. The port of Sidon on the south Lebanese coast has also been closed, UN sources said.
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