Israelis Kill Two in Raid on S. Lebanon Village

Israeli troops raided a Shia Muslim village six miles east of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, killing two people, wounding at least one and destroying three buildings, an Israeli army spokesman said.

The Christian Voice of Lebanon radio station reported that the Israelis searched three additional southern Lebanese villages Wednesday, but there was no immediate confirmation from the army.

The actions came one day after Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin issued what a senior security source called “new guidelines” for occupation troops.

The guidelines, calling for stronger measures against villages harboring Lebanese guerrillas--most of them Shia Muslims--opposed to the occupation, were issued in response to a wave of attacks that have left seven Israeli soldiers dead in the last 10 days, the source said. He added that there would be no shelling of villages but promised, “We’ll make sure things are a lot more difficult for them.”

‘We’re Not the Marines’

In a reference to the brief U.S. military presence in Lebanon, which ended last year, the source said: “We are not the Marines. We can’t just pull back and disappear.”

In an interview with Israel radio, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned that the Israelis are contemplating severe measures to curtail the guerrilla raids, which he called “an expression of wild hate.”

Shamir, the leader of the Likud bloc in the Israeli coalition government, said, “Israel will take all necessary measures, including the sharpest and toughest, to defend the lives of our soldiers in Lebanon.”

There were reports late Wednesday in Beirut that the Israelis had closed the bridge over the Litani river and that they were also moving tanks northward toward Tyre.

Last Saturday, Israel completed the first stage of a three-phase withdrawal from southern Lebanon, which its troops have occupied since their June, 1982, invasion. Since the invasion, 619 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon.

Increase in Attacks

The withdrawal plan was approved by the Israeli Cabinet Jan. 14. But guerrilla attacks have increased since the decision, particularly in areas from which the Israelis are not scheduled to evacuate until the final phase of the pullout.

As a result, conflicting political pressures have emerged in Jerusalem, with some officials arguing that the army should withdraw immediately to the international border and with others pressing for permanent Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon between the border and a new fortified line along the Litani River.

“In a country like Lebanon . . . you are respected and there is law and order if it is known that you take tough measures whenever anything happens,” said Yuval Neeman, a Parliament member from the rightist Tehiya Party and one advocate of a permanent Israeli presence in the south.

Speaking Wednesday in an interview with Israel radio, he added: “If you believe that by being nice and forgiving, you make people love you, it’s just the contrary.”

‘The Price in Blood’

In a radio interview Tuesday night, Maj. Gen. Yehoshua Saguy, former director of military intelligence, said that withdrawal to a fortified line along the Litani would probably cause an international political furor, but he added that the political price is preferable to “the price in blood” of the current situation.

Wednesday’s raid on Bazouriye near Tyre began at about 7 a.m., when an Israeli mechanized unit surrounded the village and began a house-to-house search, according to Timor Goksel, the U.N. spokesman in southern Lebanon. The village is in an area patrolled by U.N. peacekeeping troops.

Goksel said that 200 villagers were questioned and that U.N. troops later found the body of one man with three bullets in his head. Two wounded villagers were taken to U.N. hospitals, Goksel said.

However, an Israeli army spokesman later announced that two men described as “terrorists” were killed trying to escape the village. The men were armed with a machine gun and rocket-propelled grenades, according to the official Israeli account. The army said a third man was captured and a fourth wounded.

The army spokesman also said troops destroyed a garage and two other buildings in Bazouriye in which arms were discovered.

Also contributing to this story was Times correspondent Charles P. Wallace in Beirut.