An Israeli raiding party attacked terrorist targets in the port of Sidon in south Lebanon last night and returned safely to its base, an army spokesman announced today. A number of terrorists were killed or wounded in the operation. There were no Israeli casualties.
The spokesman said the raid was carried out within the framework of the preventive action policy intended to forestall terrorist incursions against Israel. The armed forces were placed on special alert today, the 13th anniversary of the start of the Six-Day War, in anticipation of possible terrorist acts on the West Bank, Jerusalem or elsewhere.
Foreign intelligence agencies are said to have warned that the Palestine Liberation Organization and sympathetic terrorist groups such as Germany’s Boder-Meinhoff gang and Italy’s Red Brigade have planned activities for this day. In Beirut, El Fatah leader Abu Ayyad warned that prominent Israeli personalities have been targeted for attacks in revenge for the bomb attacks on Arab mayors on the West Bank Monday, believed extremist Jewish groups.
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