The Israel Defense Force and its allied South Lebanon Army continued to shell Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon over the weekend.
The continuous pounding with heavy artillery was in response to intensified Katyusha rocket fire almost every night last week.
The IDF and SLA shelling reportedly created havoc near Iklim al-Toufik village and at Palestine Liberation Organization bases inside the Rashidiya refugee camp east of Tyre. Some 6,000 refugees were reported to have fled the camp.
Reports from Beirut said the PLO suffered five dead and dozens wounded over the weekend.
No Katyushas were fired Saturday night. IDF sources expressed hope that the people in the path of the artillery barrages prevailed on the PLO to cease its hostile activities.
According to the Israelis, the PLO initiated the Katyusha attacks after Saddam Hussein appealed to Yasir Arafat to attack Israel in support of Iraq in the Gulf war. But the rockets fell short of Israel.
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