Israeli forces tightened security measures on the Awali River bridges over the weekend following the bazooka rocket attack on an Israeli army vehicle in Nabatiya, south Lebanon Friday in which one soldier, Corp. Aharon Yanovsky, was killed and one soldier and three local residents were wounded. Yanovsky was buried today in Holon.
The attack was carried out by masked terrorists who escaped. Israeli military officers met with regional leaders today to warn them that terrorists were planning to infiltrate booby-trapped cars into the region. they explained that the elaborate inspection procedures at the bridge checkpoints were as much for the protection of the local populace as for Israeli forces.
The Israelis denied claims by representatives of the south Lebanese that goods from south Lebanon bound for the north were deliberately being delayed.
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