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...Thursday, Israeli planes destroyed six important bridges in southern Lebanon, thereby cutting the main roads south from Beirut and isolating such Palestinian strongholds as Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Hasbaya. Then on Friday morning, in their fifth strike within seven days, the Israelis launched their assault on Beirut, hitting not only at Palestinian and Syrian positions near Beirut airport and the Kuwaiti embassy but also at the Shatila refugee camp. On Saturday, as Israeli planes made still another raid on southern Lebanon, Palestinian guerrillas lobbed a few more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope...
...Mount Hermon, has been known as "Fatahland" because Palestinian guerrillas regularly cross it from havens in Syria to infiltrate the Israeli border. In reprisal for fedayeen raids, or to deter recurrences, Israeli aircraft, artillery and armored columns have regularly punished the Lebanese countryside. Last week's bombing of Hasbaya, Rashaya Fukhar and four other villages, according to the Lebanese government, marked the 65th Israeli air attack on southern Lebanon; in addition, there have been more than 1,000 artillery barrages and 222 armed border crossings...
...second purpose: putting pressure on Lebanon to police the Palestinians. But the main victims over the years have not been the mobile commandos but the Lebanese families who live in the border villages. Among the victims of last week's raids was the septuagenarian mukhtar (headman) of Hasbaya; he was the 137th civilian to be killed so far. In addition, 402 Lebanese have been wounded and 91 have been captured and forcibly taken across the border into Israel for interrogation...
...Obligated from both a moral and political viewpoint," as he put it, Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon last week publicly admitted that Israeli planes had dropped bombs on the southern Lebanon town of Hasbaya two weeks ago. The raid, labeled a "preventive" strike, had been aimed at the Palestinian fedayeen encamped in the hills around the village. But because of a technical failure in a jet bomber, said Allon, a number of bombs were dropped on Hasbaya itself. "We never intended to harm peaceful civilians," he said...
Broken Promises. He had a point. But Eban for his part did not mention the violence of the Israeli response. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott was one of the few journalists to visit Hasbaya last week and found that the bombing had "left the center of the village a jumble of caved-in roofs, dangerous dangling electric wires, burned-out shops, blackened automobiles and screaming people. Four bombs made craters 12 ft. deep and 20 ft. across within 20 yds. of the house of Dr. Rashid Haddad, the town's only physician. There, the doctor said, pointing a finger...