The Herald Mail · 30 October 1979

CP-1979-022

Israelis hit fierce resistance

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Israelis hit fierce resistance BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - Israeli artillery fire supported tanks by pushed into south Lebanon Monday were driven back across the but border by heavy Palestinian guerrilla fire, radio and Palestinian news agency reports said. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli military command denied any such attack.

"Nothing of the kind happened," a spokesman said. government-controlled Beirut The radio, right-wing Phlangist radio and the Palestinian news agency WAFA said the attack centered near the Bridge between strategic Khardaly Marjayoun and Nabatiyeh, six miles north and eight miles northwest of the border.

The valley and the bridge separate rightist forces of the Christian renegade Lebanese Maj. Saad Haddad at Marjeyoun and Palestinian posi- tions at Nabatiyeh. Beirut radio said five Israeli ar mored vehicles, protected by artillery fire froth both Israelis and Haddad's forces,

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"Israelis hit fierce resistance," The Herald Mail, 30 October 1979. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1979-022. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1979-022

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