Four Israel Defense Force soldiers were wounded in southern Lebanon Tuesday morning when they clashed with a terrorist group that reportedly had been planning to carry out an attack in northern Israel.
Two terrorists were killed in the encounter, which occurred in the border security zone patrolled by Israel. Three of the Israeli soldiers suffered light injuries, and the fourth sustained medium wounds.
Al Fatah, the terrorist arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization controlled by Yasir Arafat, announced in Sidon that a group of its members had been on its way to carry out a terrorist mission in Kiryat Shmona.
The incident occurred when a routine IDF patrol discovered a group of would-be infiltrators some 25 yards north of the Israeli border, not far from Yuval village. The Israeli troops opened fire, and the terrorists responded with automatic fire and hand grenades.
The IDF troops surrounded the area during the night and at dawn stormed the spot where the terrorists were hidden. They were found to have been carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenade-launchers and a large quantity of hand grenades.
According to reports from Lebanon, Amal militiamen last week seized a large quantity of Katyusha rockets in the Burj a-Shinali refugce camp near Tyre.
They had reportedly arrived in the camp from the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley region of eastern Lebanon shortly before last week’s Land Day in Israel. The rockets apparently were to be launched against Galilee settlements that day, the 12the anniversary of violent Arab protests.
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