Defense Minister Ariel Sharon told a Herut meeting here last night that terrorist had carried out 15 acts of sabotage in Israel and another five in southern Lebanon during the past two weeks.
He warned that Israel “might be forced to take action” if such attacks continued. He disclosed that shellfire had been directed of on Israeli naval vessel on patrol off southern Lebanon yesterday, but it was not hit.
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) sources said today they had observed two incidents of firing at Israeli boats in recent days. The first, on Monday, was not disclosed by Sharon or other Israeli spokesmen. The UNIFIL sources said they could not say whether the Israeli boats concemed had been within Lebanese territorial waters at the time of the attacks.
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