Bombs, shots break Israeli calm
NZPA-Reuter Tel Aviv
Israel’s first air raid on Palestinian guerrilla bases in south Lebanon this year and the shooting dead of two Israeli soldiers by a Jordanian soldier mark an upsurge of violence along its borders after some calm.
Military sources said that yesterday’s air raid on the bases of three proSyrian Palestinian guerrilla groups near Sidon were linked to recent action against Israeli and allied militia forces in south Lebanon and Katyusha rocket attacks across the border.
Pilots reported accurate hits on three buildings used by Abu Musa’s Fatah faction, Abu Abbas’ Palestine Liberation Front, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineGeneral Command led by Ahmed Jibril.
Lebanese security sources said one person was killed and four wounded in the air raid, Israel’s first anti-guerrilla operation outside the country since it vowed to avenge last month’s Palestinian attacks at Rome and Vienna airports.
Israeli aircraft struck at Palestinian bases in Lebanoh more than a dozen times in 1985. The Chief of Staff, Lieu-tenant-General Moshe Levi, said that the air raid had occurred before the clash along the 'Jordan River, the first in years along the 345 km long frontier.
The Army said a 20-year-old Jordanian private armed with an Ml 6 automatic rifle had crossed the river at night and ambushed an Israeli border patrol near a farm settlement on the occupied West Bank.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and two wounded. Reinforcements then killed the attacker in a gun-and-grenade battle in which the Jordanian, wearing jeans and a red-and-white keflyeh headdress, had fired some 150 rounds.
Although Israel and Jordan technically have been in a state of war since Israel captured the West Bank in 1967, Israeli leaders have praised Jordan for preventing Palestinian guerrilla attacks from across the frontier.
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