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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Feb. 20, 1986
Israelis captured
Troops clash in Lebanon
United Press International
KFAR DOUNINE, Lebanon Israeli troops sweeping through southern Lebanon in search of two captured comrades clashed yesterday with Lebanese guerrillas in the bloodiest fighting of the Israeli incursion, and radical Muslims holding the soldiers claimed to have killed one of them.
The Islamic Resistance Front, the group that captured the Israelis in an ambush in southern Lebanon on Monday, had threatened to kill one of the young captives by 9 p.m. local time if the Israeli sweep was not ended.
Israeli officers ignored the threat, saying the extremists merely were trying to gain enough time to move their captives out of southern Lebanon, and the sweep continued.
An hour later, Beirut radio said an Arabic newspaper received a telephone call from the group saying it had executed one of the Israeli hostages at exactly 9 p.m. The caller, who identified himself as Abu
Mohammed, vowed to increase attacks on Israelis until they left all occupied Islamic lands.
There was no way to verify the authenticity of the call.
The Muslim group Tuesday identified the soldiers as Rahamim Shlomo Levy El Sheikh and Youssef Martin Punk, both 21.
Officials of the Shiite Muslim militia called Amal said four of their fighters were killed and eight were wounded when they ambushed an Israeli unit in the village of Haris, eight miles north of the Israeli border.
An Israel Defense Force spokesman said Israeli troops and Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militiamen, who patrol an Israeli-created security zone on Israel's northern border, killed four terrorists who attacked the unit.
Israel said the terrorists were members of the radical Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah, or Party of God, which has ties to Iran.
The spokesman said the joint
Israeli-SLA patrol sustained no casualties in the fighting, the bloodiest since Israeli forces pushed into Lebanon on Monday night seeking the two soldiers.
U. N. peacekeeping force officials in Lebanon warned that Amal hardliners were demanding the militia go to war with Israel. But moderate Amal leaders, fearing a repeat of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon — launched to oust Palestinian guerrillas — were urging restraint. Israeli troops occupied southern Lebanon for three years after the invasion.
The Amal-controlled National News Agency said fierce battles were raging in southern Lebanon yesterday as militants tried to stem the Israeli invasion.
"An Amal spokesman in the south stated that a number of Amal fighters were standing by to blow up themselves and Israeli tanks in case of further advances," the agency said. No suicide attacks were reported, and the agency report could not be confirmed.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslim kidnappers released three Spanish Embassy officials yesterday, but a fundamentalist group claimed it killed a kidnapped Lebanese Jew to retaliate for an Israeli army sweep through southern Lebanon.
In mainly Muslim west Beirut, bank workers staged a one-day strike to protest the Aug. 19 abduction of 11 bank employees, including three officials of the Bank of Lebanon, the central bank.
Some 2,500 Lebanese have been abducted in the country's civil war, which is in its 11th year. Six U.S. residents, four Frenchmen, a South Korean, an Italian and a Briton are also missing in Lebanon.
An underground Muslim group, the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, claimed yesterday it killed Elie Hallak, 52, in retaliation for the Israeli search for two captured soldiers.
Hallak, a doctor and vice president of the Supreme Jewish Community Council of Lebanon, was abducted Feb. 21, 1985.
The verdict of God has been carried out against this
spy and Mossad in retaliation for the Israeli terrorist actions in south Lebanon," his abductors said. Mossad is an Israeli intelligence agent.
A U.N. official said Israeli troops, who moved into southern Lebanon Tuesday, drove north to the Litani River yesterday in search of two captured comrades. At the same time, hundreds of Palestinian guerrillas moved south from Beirut to beep up Muslim forces harassing the Israeli task force.
A few Lebanese were killed in an encounter at the village of Haris, raising fears of large clashes between Israeli forces and the largest Shiite militia.
In its statement, the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth said Hallak's body would not be handed over to his family until Israel left southern Lebanon.
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Hallak was the fourth member of Lebanon's Jewish community to be killed by the group in two months. At least four other Jews are believed kidnapped in Lebanon.
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