Blasting Oil Fields a Crippling Blow to Egypt

the other facility had an annual
capacity of 2 million tons a year.
The fighting subsided at night-
fall. Israel said that only one of its
soldiers had been slightly wounded
in the entire battle. (Cairo dis-
patches received in London today
said the Egyptians claimed they
had downed an Israeli Mirage jet
fighter in the action, and knocked
out three Israeli tanks. Israel de-
nied the loss of any tanks or
planes.)
As reports still flowed in on the
results of the Suez battle, the Army
spokesman announced that fighting
had broken out on the Jordanian
front. An Israeli border patrol ex-
changed fire with Jordanion com-
mandos, near the settlement of
Tirat-Zvi in the Beisan Valley about
20 miles northeast of Nablus. Two
Israelis were seriously wounded.
The blasting of Egypt's oil re-
fineries was the most staggering
blow suffered by that country's
Security Council Session
economy since the capture of the
Sinai oil fields by Israeli forces
Marked by UAR Attack
last June.
UNITED NATIONS (TA) — The
Security Council met Tuesday night
The Egyptian loss to Israel of the
at the urgent request of Egypt Bas Sudr and other Sinai Peninsula
which charged that Israel had com- oil fields had been offset since June
mitted an "unprovoked act of war" by the expanding output of the
in its shelling of the city of Suez Morgan offshore concession in the
Tuesday. E g y pt's Ambassador Gulf of Suez and in the western
Mahmoud El Kony complained to desert near El Alamein. The Pan-
the Security Council that Israeli American Oil Co., an affiliate of
shelling had virtually demolished Standard Oil of Indiana, has been
Suez, had caused "extensive loss working with the Egyptian Govern-
of human life" and had wrecked ment's General Petroleum Co. in
or severely damaged oil refineries, both regions, and most of the Pan-
a fertilizer factory and harbor in- American technicians who left
stallations.
Egypt last June have returned.
El Kony charged that the attack
According to observers, Egypt
was ordered by the Israel govern- would probably have had sufficient
ment following an extraordinary oil products to meet her domestic
meeting of its cabinet, and that it market requirements for the bal-
pressed the attack despite requests ance of the year without spending
of UN observers to cease fire. The scarce foreign currency. But Tues-
Egyptian said that Israel cannot day's destruction of her oil refin-
justify the shelling as a retaliatory ing capacity may well have
measure for the sinking of the de- changed that picture.
stroyer Elath because "there is
(Scores of foreign newsmen and
no relationship between the two television teams arriving in Israel
incidents."
Wednesday were taken on a "Sinai
In a fierce Egyptian-Israeli
tour" to Port Tewfik from where
battle across the Suez Canal and
they could see huge fires and
in the area of the city of Suez,
clouds of smike still rising from
hours, Israel knocked
lasting 3
the Port Suez and Port Ibrahim
out Tuesday 80 per cent of
areas that were blasted Tuesday.)
Egypt's oil-refining capacity.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed
After the Egyptians started the
and three were wounded, two of
fighting, the Israeli Army spokes-
them seriously, in a clash early
man said here the largest-cali-
Wednesday morning with heavily
ber Soivet guns captured from
armed Arab infiltrators on the
Egypt during the Six-Day War
west bank of the Jordan east of
last June.
Nablus. The clash, which occurred
The spokesman said the Egyp- nine miles north of the Damiya
tians opened fire in the Port Tewfiq Bridge, was the second in less than
area and at the southern end of 24 hours.
the Suez Canal. It was the first
-An army spokesman said that
Egyptian action since Saturday,
the latest incident occurred at
when Egyptian missiles sank the
1 a.m. Wednesday morning when
Elath.
an Israeli patrol was attacked by
According to the Army spokes-
marauders who had evidently
man, the skies of the western shore
crossed over from Jordan. One
of the Suez Canal were blackened
of the Arabs was killed. A ba-
by smoke as Egypt's most impor-
zooka and a Russian-made as-
tant oil refineries were set ablaze
sault gun were found near by.
by Israeli shells. Outside Suez, the
Captain Shlomo Hare!, com-
El Nasser refinery was destroyed,
mander of the Israeli Navy,
and the Suez refinery was demol-
charged at a press conference
ished. El Nasser produced 3 million
to 3.5 mollion tons of oil annually;

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nk in shallow waters, a little
.nder 90 feet in depth. The spot is
iirked by a dark oil slick.
Israel naval authorities said
there was no doubt that the Egyp-
ian missile craft had launched
he attack on the Elath from con-
?-lment in Port Said Harbor.
They were not seen on the Elath's
radar and would have been if they
had emerged from the harbor, the
officials declared.
They also said that Soviet
technicians may well have par-
ticipated in the attack. The mis-
siles of the Styx type equipped
with radar homing devices, were
fired from Ossa Class Boats only
recently supplied to the Egyp-
tians by the Russians. The Egyp-
tain crews were not yet trained
to operate them. The missiles
have a range of about 18 miles.
*
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israel Transport Chief
Visits Greek Ship at Gaza
12—Friday, October 27, 1967

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GAZA — The Greek freighter
Ouanoupolis, loading citrus here
for Yugoslavia, was visited by
Israel's transport minister Moshe
Carmel Wednesday. It is one of the
first vessels to call at Gaza Port
since the Six-Day War. Gaza, like
the port of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, is an
open roadstead where ships anchor
offshore and load and discharge
cargo by lighter. Israel's other
ports, Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat have
facilities for docking deep-sea ves-
sels.

that Egypt bad made an unwar-
ranted attack despite the Egyp-
tian-Israeli cease-fire agreement
and despite the fact that the de-
stroyer was on the high seas
beyond the Egyptian-claimed 12-
mile territorial waters.
Premier Levi Eshkol said that
Israel would not forget "this wan-
ton act by Israel's worst foe." He
made the comment at a ceremony
at President Shazar's residence
held to mark the start of Israel's
20th anniversary. He said it was
painful that "even this occasion
must be tinged with sadness. We
mourn some of our best sons, and
their memory will be engraved on
the scroll of Israel's resurrection."
(Foreign Minister Abba Eban de-
scribed the attack in London, as
be prepared to depart for New
York and the United Nations, as
"unprovoked aggression and a vio-
lation of the cease-fire."
(At the United Nations, Israel
Ambassador Gideon Rafael sent
an urgent letter to the President
of the Security Council on the at-
tack, calling it a "deliberate fla-
grant act of belligerance on the
high seas," calling the action "a
matter of the upmost gravity.")
Survivors of the attack said the
Elath was off Port Said in inter-
national waters opposite Romani
on the northern Sinai coast. The
crew was preparing for dinner
when, suddenly, alarm whistles
sounded. Before any crew mem-
bers could man battlestations, the
first missiles hit the ship, turning
it to a dangerous angle and causing
enormous internal damages.
Despite the damage, crew mem-
bers began treating the wounded

and seeking to repair the ship to I plosions stopped all power. Each
enable it to get away. But a sec-1 of the missile one-ton warheads
and salvo caught the ship and it contained 1,000 pounds of explo.
began to sink. A few minutes la- styes.
ter, radio messages were received
The ship was listing but AM
from the vessel, announcing that afloat when orders were issued
the crew was abandoning ship.
to treat the wounded, most of them
Capt. Harel told newsmen he had suffering from burns, and to try
been informed by ship officers that to repair the damage. As the aban-
the Elath's radar screens were don ship order was issued and the
clear and that nothing was obser- crewmen began placing wounded
ved on them just prior to the comrades on rafts, the third mis-
attack. He said that, suddenly, sile hit the stern of the Elath and
(Continued on Page 14)
crew members on watch observed
green Hairs from Port Said, fol-
lowed by the approach of a swiftly-
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moving white cloud, the indication
of a missile. The Elath bad time
to change speed and course but
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a tracking device, also changed
course, and hit the Elath amid-
ships, wrecking a boiler. A minute
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later, a second homing missile
hit the machinerooms, bringing
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