Israelis Rocket Lebanese Camps, Seize 7 Infiltrators

RASHAYA, Lebanon — Israel launched a new air raid on targets in southern Lebanon today and its forces captured seven Palestinian guerrillas on a mission to seize hostages.

Security sources and witnesses said two jets fired rockets at a military training camp of the leftist Syrian Nationalist Social Party in the eastern Bekaa Valley village of Beit Lahia, four miles north of Israel’s self-declared security zone.

In the southern port of Sidon, the mainstream Fatah group led by Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat said Israeli troops captured seven of its guerrillas in the security zone early today.

Maj. Munir Makdah, the commander of Force 17--Fatah’s military branch--said the guerrillas were heading to the northern Israeli settlement of Miskav Aam where they planned to take military hostages.

He said the guerrillas, led by a woman identified as Kifah Afifi, would have used the hostages to press for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

The Voice of the South radio station, run by Israel’s local militia allies in the South Lebanon Army, said the seven were caught in the security zone village of Kfar Kila after a tip-off from the owner of a house which they had commandeered as an overnight shelter.

A Syrian Nationalist Social Party official said the air raid, the second in four days, wounded one party member and razed a one-story building used as a headquarters.

Witnesses said residents of nearby houses fled after shrapnel and flying glass from the rocket attack hit their homes. The raid sent smoke billowing over the area only two miles from Syrian positions in the Bekaa.