The World - News from June 18, 1987

Israeli fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships raided Shia Muslim and Palestinian guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon in two attacks, killing at least two people and wounding four, Lebanese police said. They added that Israeli troops and their south Lebanon militia allies shelled six Shia towns, killing one and wounding six. An Israeli military spokesman said he was “not aware” of any shelling by Israeli troops. The air raids, bringing to 18 the number of Israeli strikes in Lebanon this year, came a day after a bomb exploded in a car in a Tel Aviv suburb, killing an Arab who planted it, and followed mounting guerrilla attacks in Israel’s self-designated security zone in southern Lebanon.