Two Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in a clash with gunmen Sunday morning in the southern Lebanon security zone.
The two gunmen who fired on the Israeli troops were killed in the exchange.
The incident, which occurred in the eastern sector of the zone, followed another Friday in which two gunmen were also killed. Those men were identified as members of the Abu Nidal organization.
The identity and political affiliation of the two heavily armed gunmen killed Sunday were not immediately known, but in Beirut, the Iranian-supported Hezbollah organization announced that two of its men had attacked an Israeli patrol.
After Sunday’s clash, the attackers directed heavy mortar fire at posts of the Israel Defense Force and its affiliated South Lebanon Army in the central sector of the zone. The exchange lasted some four hours.
Sunday’s exchange brought to 13 the number of terrorists killed in eight separate clashes with IDF and SLA forces in the zone in the past month.
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