LEBANON: GUERRILLAS AND ISRAELI SOLDIERS DIE IN FOREST FIRE
Israel
(28 Aug 1997) Natural Sound Reports from Lebanon say that three Israeli soldiers burned to death and four guerrillas were killed in a firefight on Thursday. The fight came only hours after Israeli warplanes blasted suspected Hezbollah bases in the mountains of south Lebanon. The three troops died - and 10 others were wounded - when Israeli forces got trapped in a blazing forest in Wadi Al-Hojeir, on the edge of the Israeli-occupied buffer zone. The fighting was the latest in an escalation of
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