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...just 40 minutes on Wednesday afternoon when it received the news of the first important retaliatory strike by Palestinians: two northern Israeli towns were under heavy rocket attack. By the time the onslaught ended, almost two hours later, Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon had fired as many as 120 Katyusha rockets across the border, concentrating on the Israeli coastal resort town of Nahariya (pop. 30,000) and the settlement of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 20,000). The attacks killed three Israelis and injured 25. The assault had been well aimed and well timed to maximize casualties; salvo after salvo of rockets...
...selection of Qiryat Shemona as a target had a special significance for Israelis, who remember the Palestinian attack of 1974 on the settlement that left 18 Israelis dead, including eight children. In the recent election campaign, Prime Minister Menachem Begin had vowed: "Never again shall Katyusha rockets hit Qiryat Shemona." When he learned of the latest attack, Begin, who is on the verge of forming a new government with the help of three small religious parties, is said to have reacted with great emotion. "He was angry, tough and vicious," a Foreign Ministry official said later. Clearly the Israeli response...
...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 than for the fact that it occurred so soon after the Israelis had knocked out so many bridges in the region. Israeli authorities concluded that the Palestinians were using mules, which can ford streams, to transport...
...only the beginning of yet another paroxysm of violence in war-ravaged Lebanon last week. That same afternoon, Israeli fighter-bombers were hammering Palestinian positions in and around Beaufort Castle, the old Crusader ruin on the Litani River, five miles across the Lebanese border. Palestinian units responded with Katyusha rocket attacks against villages that straddle the Israeli-Lebanese border. Artillery duels broke out again between Syrian troops of the Arab Deterrent Force and right-wing Christian militiamen in Beirut and in the eastern city of Zahle, ending a tenuous two-week ceasefire...
Hostilities continued for three more days as Israel and P.L.O. forces engaged in a prolonged artillery-vs. -aircraft duel. From its southern Lebanon positions, the P.L.O. fired a series of its Soviet-made Katyusha rockets onto an Israeli settlement in the Galilee panhandle. In response, Israeli planes launched another series of bombing runs against P.L.O. bases in Lebanon...