Israeli air force jets blasted terrorist targets in southern Lebanon Monday, while a Palestinian gang attempting to infiltrate Israel was captured on the ground.
The air attack was on terrorist installations in the vicinity of Beit Lahiya in the eastern Bekaa Valley. All aircraft returned safely to their bases.
A military spokesman described the targets as a staging area for terrorist incursions against Israel and said they were destroyed.
The Israel Defense Force and the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army seized six armed men and a woman in the southern Lebanon security zone Monday morning.
According to reports from the area, the gang came from Sidon on the south Lebanon coast and reached the village of Kafr Kila, in the security zone not far from the Israel border, Sunday night.
They entered a house, demanding to be hidden until ready to embark on what was described as a “hostage-bargain” mission in Israel.
One of the people in the house managed to slip away and alert the SLA.
The Palestinians surrendered.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin reported to the Cabinet Monday morning on the preliminary investigation of the suicide car-bomb attack that killed eight soldiers and wounded seven in a security-zone convoy last Thursday.
He said the IDF convoy was observing standing orders on the space to be maintained between vehicles travelling in convoy.
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