PLO Hitting Israelis Again, Arafat Says
Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat said in an interview published Thursday that PLO forces are on the offensive again in south Lebanon.
“Our forces and rockets are back in south Lebanon and are striking with full force at Israeli forces. . . . What is happening now is a settlement of accounts and a redrawing of maps,” he told Bahrain’s Akhbar al Khaleej newspaper.
Beirut newspapers have said Arafat has re-established a military presence near the southern city of Sidon after being driven out of the south by Israel’s 1982 invasion.
Arafat, in the interview, repeated a call for an urgent Arab summit to discuss Palestinian moves in the wake of the breakdown of Jordanian-PLO peace talks last month.
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