The World - News from July 19, 1989

Israeli troops and their allied militia, the South Lebanon Army, shelled and intercepted a squad of guerrillas in southern Lebanon, killing one and wounding three, police reported. A spokesman said an armored force moved north from Israel’s self-proclaimed “security zone” to intercept the guerrillas who had been “encircled by Israeli shellfire.” He said an Israeli “observation post spotted the guerrilla squad north of the zone before daybreak” and “Israeli gunners hammered the guerrillas with about 200 howitzer shells until shortly after daybreak, when the patrol was sent to intercept them.”