TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel said Sunday it has broken up several Palestinian guerrilla cells in the West Bank, Gaza strip and Jerusalem, most belonging to Al-Fatah, the largest group within the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The military announcement gave only partial listing of the cells and the attacks they were alleged to have carried out, giving no indication whether any arrests had been made.
It said groups of guerrillas from the Ramallah and Jerusalem districts planted a bomb aboard a commuter bus near Tel Aviv on Sept. 14, injuring eight passengers.
They were also accused of planting a booby-trapped automobile packed with cooking gas cylinders in the ultraorthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. The explosives were defused without injury or damage.
The groups apparently remained operational through February, laying explosive charges along road junctions and a soldiers' pickup stop in Jerusalem, the announcement said.
It said another group that operated in Jerusalem staged three fire-bombings in the city's Neve Yacov neighborhood during January and February.
Groups of guerrillas also were uncovered in the northern sector of the West Bank, the military said.
The guerrillas allegedly were responsible for throwing gasoline bombs at two Israeli vehicles and a labor exchange office in the town of Jenin and attacking local residents suspected of cooperating with Israeli occupation authorities.
An Al-Fatah cell uncovered in Jericho allegedly staged several attacks in and around the city, and set off a bomb in Jerusalem on June 23.
Occupation authorities also have captured an Al-Fatah guerrilla in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza strip who allegedly stabbed and injured an Israeli in the old walled city of Jerusalem on March 8.
