Guerrillas wound three Israeli soldiers
Lebanon, Military, 12/3/1997

Three Israeli soldiers were wounded Tuesday afternoon in an ambush by Lebanese guerrillas of an Israeli position in occupied south Lebanon.

Security sources said the soldiers were injured when the guerrillas opened fire with machine guns an Israeli radar position in the village of Bayyada in the central sector of the enclave. The wounded were taken in military helicopters for treatment in Israel.

The Hizbullah guerrilla group issued a statement in which it claimed responsibility for the attack, one of several that the militant group said it carried out Tuesday.

Israel retaliated with air and artillery shelling of Iqlim al-Tuffah, which consists of a cluster of Shiite Muslim villages facing the border enclave. Hizbullah often uses the highlands of Iqlim al-Tuffah to launch attacks against Israeli troops and their militia allies patrolling the zone.

No casualties were reported from Israel's retaliatory shelling Tuesday.

Monday night, the resistance forces shelled positions of the Israeli forces and its allied militia in al-Dabasheh,Ali al-Taher and al-Hamra areas. On another development, Lahd's militia threatened the wife of a fleeing militiamen and asked her to leave her house in order to torpedo it after a several-day siege.

Meanwhile, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Richard Jones sought to calm fears by saying he did not anticipate a major military conflagration in south Lebanon.

Jones was responding to reporters' questions following a meeting with Prime Minister Rafik Hariri Tuesday evening.

Despite last week's violence and recent Israeli threats to bomb public utilities and infrastructure in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Jones said he did not believe the region was headed towards a major confrontation.

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