Curfew Lifted in Old Jerusalem; Refugee Restrictions
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Lifted:
Gun-Carry-Hits
and Retaliation Severely Punished
Egyptian flag, which was promptly
JERUSALEM ( JTA) — Curfew unnecessary bottlenecks in the ' ent Arab merchants who conduct- an Israeli border patrol including brought down by the Israeli troops
was lifted fully in the Eastern process of distributing the permits ed a strike there Friday night and policemen and paratroopers drew there. Barriers had also been
part of Jerusalem—in which the in its territory. On Monday, only Saturday. Additionally, the men fire from a sniper in an Arab erected against Israeli troop move-
Old City is located—as of Sun- 679 refugees crossed over. where- were fined 1,500 Israeli pounds house Friday. A little earlier, a ments in that area.
Hebrew University student's auto-
day night and for the first time as about 3,000 were expected by($500) each.
Arab Peasant Sentenced
I The Gaza trouble flared after a mobile had been fired upon at the
since the Six-Day War ended in Israel.
rwe Wire
(Direct
During the past week there were group of Arab youngsters distribut- same location. The student escap-
ew s)
JTA
Tel
to The
Jewish
the unification of Jerusalem, the
incidents on all Israeli borders. ed leaflets claiming that an Israeli ed uninjured, but three members
TEL AVIV—An Arab peasant
city returned to normal life.
Monday was sentenced to three
Jews and Arabs crowded the An Egyptian plane was shot down • soldier had killed a resident of of the patrol were wounded.
The Israelis fired back, wound- years imprisonment by a military
principal streets in the Old City, in its flight over Sinai. The pilot the town. What had happened, ac-
patronizing shops and cafes. No was killed. A Syrian was killed in tually, was that a group of Arabs ed the sniper, then arrested the court in Gaza for being in posses-
sion of a submachine gun. The
army patrols were visible along an effort to infiltrate into Israel.: had attacked an Israeli soldier man's father and a brother in the
the streets. East Jerusalem was Jordanians opened the fire from who had been forced to fire his house. Finally, they blew up the peasant, Muhamad el Roda, re-
rifle
in
self-defense.
In
the
pro-
house,
and
followed
through
by
!
ceived the heaviest penalty im-
the
East
Bank
of
the
Jordan
River,
-New"
no different than the former
Jerusalem. The city's unification, and the Israelis returned the fire. ! cess of restoring order, three Arabs arresting six more Arabs and raz- posed in Gaza since the Six-Day
ing
five
more
houses
that
had
been
War, when the court imposed a
as far as the civilian population This was the first shooting loci- were wounded.
was concerned, was one busy, nor- d en t 09 th e Jo rdanian border in ! The Israeli military governor is- centers of violent resistance. The 15-year sentence on a 22-year-old
sued an order forbidding business- village is on the West Bank of the Arab student who was found to be
several days.
mal metropolis.
Ambassador Ernest Thalmann, men to close their stores. When Jordan River and overlooks a prin- carrying a submachine gun in his
The cabinet decided to hold its
cipal higrAway to Jerusalem, just suitcase.
annual Independence Day Parade, the Swiss diplomat who is here some of them did shut down, they east of the capital.
Former Egyptian army bases
in 1968, in unified Jerusalem. The as the personal envoy of United i were arrested immediately and
The incidents of Arab resistance
1968 parade will celebrate the 20th Nations Secretary-Genera 1 U • taken before the military court. were seen as signs of deteriora- captured during the Six-Day War
Some
of
the
youngsters
who
had
will
be reconstructed and reno-
anniversary. of Israel's rebirth. Thant for a fact-finding survey
tion of the relations between the
Until the Israel-Arab armistice of the situation regarding Jeru- distributed the leaflets were also Israelis and the Arabs. There vated for the use of the Israeli
tried
and
sentenced
to
jail
terms.
army, it was learned here Wed-
agreements became defunct in salem, conferred Monday with
seemed to be two causes. One was
June. due to the war, Israel was' Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. At El Arish, in the northern that the Arabs are uneasy because nesday.
not allowed to bring heavy arma- Present at the meeting were also Sinai, an Israeli military tribunal they don't know what Israel's
On the West Bank of the Jordan
ments into Jerusalem.
Dr. Yaacov Herzog, director- sentenced four local Arabs to two- plans are in regard to the various River, installations used by King
year
prison
terms
each
for
parti-
Hussein's
Arab Legion are already
A group of foreign Jewish social general of the premier's office;
occupied areas such as the West
cipating in an anti-Israeli demon- Bank of the Jordan and the Sinai in use by the Israeli army.
workers, most of them Americans., and Yosef Tekoah, deputy di-
In the Golan Heights, the occu-
rector-general of Israel's for- stration. The four had confessed Peninsula or Gaza. The other fac-
was told by Israeli military authori-
to having spread nails on high- tor is undoubtedly due to the in- pied Syrian territory taken by Is-
ties at El Arish Monday that it eign ministry. Mr. Thalmann
will return to the UN headquar- ways leading into the city and on citing propaganda broadcast by rael, prefabricated houses are now
will take at -least three more
principal thoroughfares in El the Egyptian and Jordanian radio being built for Israel's occupation
months to sort out and rehabilitate' ters at the end of this week.
Arish, so that Israeli civilian and transmissions beamed into the oc- forces for shelter against a possible
the mass of weapons captured from
A group of Arab leaders,
early winter in that region. Win-
the Egyptians in the Sinai Penin-' eluding the former Mayor of Jor- military motorcars had their tires cupied areas.
danian-controlled Jerusalem and Punctured. Several of the Israeli
sula during the June war.
During one of the Arab demon- ter clothing is also being issued
It was announced that the war the president of the Arab Cham- cars had been damaged as a re- strations at El Arish, the resisters now to the Israeli army in occu-
were bold enough to hoist the pied Syria.
fought against the Arabs last June , ber of Commerce in the former suit of that action.
At Abu Dis, in occupied Jor-
will be called officially, hereafter, "old city," presented complaints
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 1, 1967
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"The Six-Day War." A special de- against Israel to Dr. Ernest Thal- danian territory east of Jerusalem,
coration will be awarded to all mar.n, the special emissary on fact
regular and reserve units that finding regarding Jerusalem. They
fought in the war Oct. 29. , objected to Israel's "physical an-
Four Arab civilians were injur- nexation" of the capital, insisting
ed near Gaza. in the village of , that it was in contradiction to
Jabaliya, when an automobile in General Assembly resolutions; pro-
which they were riding struck a tested against customs duties al-
mine. Israeli military authorities legedly imposed on Arab mer-
immediately imposed a curfew on , chants for goods already on the
the town, organizing a house-to- shelves when the Jordanian-Israeli
house search for saboteurs. ! war erupted in June; and charged
Israel announced that it had that Israel had not respected the
withdrawn the Aug. 31 deadline sanctity of Moslem and Christian
for the return of refugees to the religious shrines.
Government House, the cora-
West Bank of the Jordan. The !
pound in Jerusalem's prewar no-
right of return now is unlimited.
man's-land occupied by the de-
At the same time it was an-
nounced at the UN that both Is- funct United Nations Truce
Supervision Organization, flew
rael and Egypt agreed to continue
indefinitely the earlier month-long ! the United Nations flag again
agreement for both governments to ' Monday for the first time since
June.
keep small-boat traffic, except cer-
tain launches, off the Suez Canal.
In June, after attacking Jor-
That earlier agreement had expir- danian troops had taken that corn-
ed on Aug. 27.
. pound, Israeli troops had recap-
Gen. Odd Bull, UN supervisor tured the UN headquarters and
over cease-fire arrangements, re- had given refuge in secure areas
ported to U Thant that "the situa- of Jerusalem to Lt. Gen. Odd Bull,
tion remains quiet" in both sec- commander of the UN force, and
' his entire staff. Last week, under
tors.
At the UN also, Israel's ambas- ' an agreement between Israel and
sador, Gideon Rafael, vigorously UN Secretary-General U Thant, re-
denied charges of looting by Is- luctantly accepted by the latter,
raelis at archaeological sites at Israel allowed Gen. Bull and his
Banais in Israel-occupied Syrian staff to move back into the main
territory.
building in the area, but kept two-
Another agreement reached this thirds of the area for itself for
week was Israel's submission to security reasons. Gen. Bull raised
the Arabs to permit them to use the UN flag over the main build-
their own textbooks in the schools ing, and has also been permitted,
in occupied areas, but anti-Israel under the agreement with Thant,
and anti-Jewish passages will be to use the UN radio transmitter
removed or blacked out.
which is located in the area re-
Israel announced Tuesday that tained by Israel.
it is extending "indefinitely" the
It was believed that UN's ac-
previously set Aug. 31 deadline ceptance of the arrangement was
for the admission into the West only de facto, and that Gen. Bull
Bank area of the Jordan River would raise the issue further with
certain of the Arab refugees. After the Israeli authorities. While
a conference between Foreign Thant continues to refer to Gen.
Minister Abba Eban and United Bull as chief of staff of UNTSO,
States Ambassador Walworth Bar- Israel calls him only the chief UN
Maybe you've heard an electric dryer costs more, per load, to
observer of the cease-fire arrange-
ber.
operate than a gas dryer.
The deadline extension, however, ments with the hostile Arab states.
was for the admission of those re- Israel maintains that UNTSO has
But, compare original dryer cost. Model for model, you pay $20
fugees still in the East Bank whose ceased to exist, since it was based
to
$40
less for an electric dryer.
the
1949
Israeli-Arab
armis-
re-entry had already been ap- on
And you get Free Installation on newly purchased electric dryers;
tice agreements which were shat-
proved by Israel.
except venting, on Edison lines up to and including four-family flats.
Both the United States and tha tered by the June war.
Israeli authorities and military
United Nations, through Secre-
And No Charge Repair Service. No charge on electric parts
courts
took
sharp
actions
last
tary of State Dean Rusk and Sec-
labor. You can't get free protection on a gas dryer; if you have to
retary-General U Thant, have been weekend against Arab resisters in
replace the motor on one, It can wipe out whatever small per-load
pressing Israel to lift the Aug. 31 several of the areas occupied by
Israel. Various Arab groups forc-
savings you may have accumulated. 4
deadline.
So when you hear about the pennies per load you might save
It became known that Israel, on ed Israel to retaliate against shoot-
Tuesday, turned over to the In- ings, a strike in Gaza, and other
with
a gas dryer, think about the dollars you save over the life of
increased
hostile
acts
by
Arabs.
ternational Red Cross—for trans-
an electric dryer.
In Gaza, the military tribunal
mission to Jordan-1,000 more ap-
proved permits. The flow of re- meted out jail sentences ranging
—
Are you getting
the whole story
on dryer costs?
or
EDISON!
turnees has been extremely slow, from eight months' imprisonment
Israel blaming Jordan for creating to 10 months against five protein-