Israeli artillery suspended firing on terrorist strongholds in Shuba village in southern Lebanon Sunday afternoon to permit the villagers who had evacuated the place, to return for their belongings and leave again. The Israeli guns held their fire at the special request of Gen. Ensto Siilasvuo, commander of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF). This was disclosed at Sunday’s Cabinet session by Defense Minister Shimon Peres who described the terrorist take-over of Shuba which is close to the Israeli border. During a fierce gun-battle Friday night near Zari’it settlement, two Israeli soldiers were wounded, and three terrorists infiltrators from Lebanon were killed.
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