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Amal accused the Palestinians of firing at the food convoy from inside Bourj el-Barajneh...
They said the Iranian was in an ambulance accompanying the two trucks into the Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp, which has been under siege by the Shiite Moslem militia Amal for 11 weeks...
...Italians, 2,100 strong and posted in Beirut's southern suburbs, protect the scenes of last year's massacre and also the Bourj-el-Barajneh refugee camp. Highly motorized, like the French, they maintain regular patrols, and also provide more assistance to civilians in their area than do the other contingents. Two Italian mobile clinics make daily tours of the refugee camps, ministering to the health needs of the Palestinians...
Other Israeli targets included P.L.O. offices in Fakhani, the scene of an Israeli air attack last year, and the Palestinian refugee camps of Bourj el Brajneh and Sabra. The P.L.O., in a retaliatory strike of its own, fired scores of Soviet-made Katyusha rockets and long-range artillery shells at towns and settlements in northern Israel. Israeli gunners responded in border duels that continued throughout the night. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declared that his guerrilla forces would teach Jerusalem a "lesson." Israeli Economic Minister Ya'acov Meridor vowed that his country would "liquidate the sources of the shooting...
...simultaneously in the northern Lebanese town of Chekka, where an explosion outside a cement factory said to be owned by P.L.O. and Syrian sympathizers killed ten and wounded ten more. A day later, a third explosion killed two and injured several more in the low-income Beirut suburb of Bourj-el-Barajneh, a P.L.O. stronghold; the Front also claimed to have been behind that bombing...