Israel Air Force jets attacked terrorist targets north of Sidon in southern Lebanon Wednesday and returned safely to their bases, a military spokesman announced.
He said the pilots reported the targets were destroyed. The raid was the third by the Israel Air Force on Lebanon this month.
Sources in Lebanon said six aircraft carried out the raid. They said the targets were storage buildings for dissident factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization and that a vehicle from which anti-aircraft fire was aimed at the attackers was destroyed.
According to reports from Beirut, the planes came in three waves, bombing bases occupied by Palestinian and pro-Iranian terrorists. The explosions of ammunition stored in the target buildings hampered efforts by Red Cross teams to rescue victims, the Beirut reports said.
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