Word: nabatiyeh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tightest security sweeps since the invasion, members of the Israeli Defense Forces responded with intensive postmidnight house-to-house searches in the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon, Tyre and Nabatiyeh. At least 100 people were arrested. Checkpoints along the coastal highway were the scene of huge traffic jams throughout the week as Israeli soldiers searched all vehicles. Even so, one bomb was set off near an Israeli outpost south of Sidon, wounding a soldier, and a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Israeli truck on the highway. Reflecting the jittery atmosphere, an Israeli colonel in Sidon pointed...
...wounding 20. Two days later the Israelis struck again, this time hitting a guerrilla base at Damur, ten miles south of Beirut, killing five and injuring 25. After another two-day interval, the Israelis attacked once more, damaging Palestinian and Lebanese leftist bases near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and at Jazzin and Basir in south central Lebanon. Ten were killed and 90 wounded. In a dogfight between Syrian and Israeli jets, the first such encounter in five months, a Syrian MiG was destroyed...
...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...