Reliable military sources in Beirut have announced that an escalation in Palestinian and pro-Iranian terrorist activity against Israel is expected in Lebanon within the next two months, Maariv reported Monday.
The Israeli newspaper was quoting Radio Monte Carlo, a station in Monaco owned by Arabs with excellent connections throughout the Arab world.
The report said several terrorist factions presently based in Tyre and Sidon, on the southern Lebanese coast, and in the Bekaa valley, in eastern Lebanon, are getting assistance from Syria and Iran to mount attacks on Israel.
According to Radio Monte Carlo, the purpose of the escalation is to hurt the Palestine Liberation Organization because of Yasir Arafat’s renunciation of terrorism and recognition of Israel in Geneva last month.
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