Israeli Planes Bomb Terrorist Base and Training Center in Lebanon

Israel Air Force jets bombed what was described as a terrorist base and training center in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border today and Israeli soldiers fatally shot one resident of Sidon and wounded two others in a grenade incident in that south Lebanon town.

The air raid, carried out of noon, was the seventh Israeli air attack on targets in Lebanon since the beginning of the year. A military spokesman said direct hits were scored on five buildings adjacent to a railway line in Janta village, five miles east of Rayak and south of Baolbek in the Bekaa valley.

He said the base was used by an Iranian-supported Shiite Moslem terrorist group for training purposes and a staging area for attacks on the Israel Defense Force in Lebanon. All Israeli aircraft returned safely to their bases. Israeli planes flew reconnaisance flights over Beirut today.

AMMUNITION STORES HIT

According to Beirut Radio, explosions continued in the target area for some time after the raid ended, indicating that ammunition stores had been hit. The radio report said many wounded were rushed by ambulance to hospitals in Baalbek.

The clash in Sidon occured when a hand grenade was thrown at an IDF patrol. Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing the man believed responsible and wounding two local residents. An Israeli soldier was treated for scratches and returned to duty.

CLAIM ABOUT REFUGEE CAMP INCIDENT AMENDED

Meanwhile, the Ein Hilweh refugee camp in south Lebanon remained quiet today after a week of unrest climaxed last Thursday by the fatal shooting of two women in the camp. The violence occurred after IDF patrols searched the camp and reportedly uncovered large stocks of weapons and ammunition.

Andolof Rydbeck, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Beirut which administers the camp, charged initially that the women were shot by Israeli soldiers. Later he amended that claim, saying they were shot by members of the Palestinian National Guard Militia, a group of camp residents armed and supported by Israel.

The IDF said the women were victims of internal rivalries and disputes among the 35,000 camp residents which erupted because of food shortages, a halt in PLO subsidies and a reduction in UNRWA supplies.

According to an IDF statement, one woman was killed by a man in a disturbance that developed while he was moving his family out of the camp. The second woman was killed when unknown persons fired into a crowd at the funeral of the first victim, the IDF said. It dismissed allegations that the IDF searches were the cause of the unrest.

27 CAMP RESIDENTS, ARRESTED

The searches resulted in the arrests of 27 camp residents, most of them identified as former inmates of the Ansar prison camp where suspected terrorists were held after the PLO evacuated Beirut in 1982.

The camp was emptied at the time of the Israeli-PLO prisoner exchange. Some of the released inmates returned to their homes in Sidon where they allegedly resumed anti-Israel activities.

The IDF reported last week that 10 inmates had escaped from Ansar, the first indication that the prison camp was again in use. Four of the escapees were recaptured, one of them fatally shot in the process. Five still at large are being hunted by Israeli security forces.