Residents of northern Israel spent Tuesday night in bomb shelters fearing the possibility of a shelling in the wake of an attack in Lebanon on the leader of the militant Islamic Jihad. Mahmoud Majzoub was seriously wounded Tuesday when his car exploded in Sidon. Israeli officials denied accusations by Islamic Jihad that Israel booby-trapped the car. The officials maintained that the attack was part of an internal conflict among Lebanon’s Shi’ite organizations. Fighting erupted Wednesday in several sectors of the southern Lebanon security zone. An Israeli soldier was seriously wounded by mortar shells in one of the skirmishes.
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