LEBANON: Fighting erupted across the green line in Beirut as Israel carried out an air raid in South Lebanon

Record ID: 375651

  • Title: LEBANON: Fighting erupted across the green line in Beirut as Israel carried out an air raid in South Lebanon
  • Date: 5th December 1989
  • Summary: WEST BEIRUT, EAST BEIRUT, NABATIYEH, MAJDALYOUN, LEBANON (DECEMBER 5, 1989) WEST BEIRUT (MOUSSA) GV OF AMBULANCE AND CARS IN STREETS GV PEOPLE RUNNING IN STREET EAST BEIRUT (ABOURAMIA) SV ZOOM OUT TO GV DAMAGED BUILDING AND BROKEN GLASS ON THE FLOOR (2 SHOTS) GVS SOLDIER RUNNING ACROSS GREEN LINE AND PEOPLE WALKING AMONG RUBBLE (2 SHOTS) GV AND CU OF UNOFFICIAL FRENCH
  • Embargoed: 20th December 1989 12:00
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  • Location: Lebanon, Lebanon
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Conflict,Defence / Military
  • Reuters ID: LVA3CIFM87W3FYH9BRHKRZBCFHBN
  • Story Text: EAST AND WEST BEIRUT, NABATIYEH, MAJDALYOUN, LEBANON Forces loyal to Lebanese President Elias Hrawi on Tuesday fought their fiercest clashes with troops of Christian military leader Michel Aoun since the September 23 ceasefire, trading tank and mortar fire across Beirut's Green Line divide.
    Panicking civilians fled the city or rushed to underground shelters when the 90-minute barrage erupted in the morning, fearing a threatened all-out assault on the christian enclave had begun. Fighting broke out again in the afternoon.
    Security sources said syrian troops, whom Aoun has vowed to drive from the country, took no part in the fighting.
    Hrawi was quoted on Tuesday as saying he would ask Damascus to withdraw its troops from certain areas when he had extended his authority to the Christian enclave.
    In south Lebanon, four Israeli jets raided guerrilla bases of the Syrian-backed Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) in the village of Majdalyoun.
    Security sources said five guerrillas were wounded. A military position and a clinic were hit. Hospital beds were showered with debris and ambulances damaged.
    <strong>Source: REUTERS - ALI MOUSSA, JOSEPH ABOURAMIA AND HASSAN HANKIR</strong>
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