A terrorist was captured in Monday night’s encounter between an Israel Defense Force patrol and a terrorist band just north of the Israel-Lebanon border, the IDF has confirmed.
Two terrorists were killed and four soldiers from the Golani and Givati brigades were wounded in the clash, which occurred near Kfar Yuval, in Upper Galilee.
Despite a claim by the mainline Al Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Sidon that its men had taken part in the abortive attack, the captured terrorist, who was wounded, has apparently told his interrogators that the gang belonged to George Habash’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
IDF troops prevented another infiltration attempt on the border of the south Lebanon security zone after midnight Monday.
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