Responding to perceived threats from extremist groups throughout Lebanon, Israel Defense Force attack vehicles engaged in a double-pronged raid early Thursday morning on terrorist bases in northern Lebanon.
Israeli air force helicopter gunships and naval missile boats fanned out to coastal installations in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp south of Tripoli, the Syrian-controlled port city close to Lebanon’s northern border.
The targets were bases of the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Ahmed Jabril’s terrorist organization.
The bases were reportedly used as training and jump-off sites for raids against Israel.
The IDF denied Egyptian reports quoting Palestinian sources who said Syrian installations had been hit in the raids.
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