EaSt •Gerthan-Trained El - Fatah TertoriSts
Seized on West . Bank; Arms Confiscated
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli secu- der of a young Arab taxi driver in
rity forces announced Monday the Nablus.
killing of two El Fatah gang mem-
The northern section of the
bers and the arrest of 18 others,
Gaza Strip was under curfew
including two senior commanders
following the death of two Israeli
from whom it was learned, for
irrigation workers Sunday after-
the first time, that some members noon when their jeep hit a mine
of the Arab terrorist and sabotage
south of Yad Mordechai. The
organization were trained in East
victims, both immigrants from
Germany. 1 Tunisia, employed by the Me-
The arrests and the seizure of korot water company, were
buried in the new immigrant
large stores of El Fatah arms and
ammunition followed a sweeping , township of Shderot Monday.
search of Arab villages near 1 A 42-year-old member of Kibutz
Ramallah and the surrounding Maagan in Galilee was seriously
countryside where an El Fatah wounded Monday night when El
gang early Saturday morning! Fatah maurauders from Jordan
sabotaged a heavy equipment ' ambushed a private car in which
storage depot owned by the Me- he and four other members of the
korot water company and mur- settlement were riding. The vic-
dered a Druze watchman. The tim. Amnon Ben Soussan, was hit
watchman's rifle was found among in the chest, and back by bullets
the arms seized.
and a fragment lodged in his
Israel army sappers demolished , lung. He underwent surgery dur-
five buildings in Ramoon village ! ing the night.
near Ramallah which had been used
The incident, the first in which
as shelters by the El Fatah gang Arab gangs struck at a private
responsible for Saturday's sabotage. car on a main highway, occurred
The two El Fatah commanders, shortly before midnight on the
Kamal Nimri, an engineer, and road between Beisan and Sam-
William Naguib Nasser, a sabo- makh on the southern end of the
tage expert, were netted at an Sea of Galilee. The kibutz mem-
identification check in one of the bers were driving home after a
Arab villages under curfew. Their visit to a neighboring kibutz, Mec-
"cooperation" with Israel authori- silot. As their car approached a
ties led to the arrest of the other bend in the road near Kibutz Ham-
gang members and the discovery
of the El Fatah arsenals, a securi-
ty spokesman said.
Naguib Nasser, a known El Fa-
tah leader, admitted that he had
instructed saboteurs in Algeria
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen.
and Syria and had also trained
Robert Kennedy, New York Demo-
Fatah recruits in East Germany
crat, and Sen. Jacob K. Javits,
prior to their departure for the
New York Republican, jointly
Middle East. He said he entered
sponsored a concurrent resolution
Judea (the West Bank) early in
memorializing the uprising 25
February after being briefed by
years ago in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Abu Amr, senior commander of The same measure was introduced
the El Fatah camps in Syria. I
in the House simultaneously by
The questioning of the two Rep. Emanuel Celler, New York
leaders led security forces to a Democrat, chairman of the House
An arms cache consisting of 10 ,
bazooka shells, 20 grenades, two
rifles and four sub-machine guns
was later discovered in a garage
in Beth Hanina village along with
a pile of El Fatah posters.
Four gang members were ar-
rested in Ramoon village. Eight
were arrested at Dahariya village
on Mt. Hebron where 11 sub-ma-
chine guns, one medium machine
gun and more grenades were
found. Another four were seized in
Gaza along with seven submachine
guns, one heavy machine gun and
a bazooka.
After machine - gunning the
watchman, the terrorists blew up
three tractors with high explosive
charges, set fire to a fuel storage
tank and destroyed other machine-
ry and water pipes. Border police
followed their trail across the old
Israel-Jordan armistice line to the
village of Kattana. A house-to- ,
house search, aided by Army heli-
copters, was carried out there and
in nearby villages where a curfew
was imposed. The saboteurs left
leaflets identifying themselves as
El Fatah.
Three anti-vehicle mines were
discovered and dismantled by Is-
raeli border police Sunday morn-
ing in the Beisan Valley in the
vicinity of Tirat Zvi, a military
spokesman reported. The mines
were planted on a road used by
border patrols.
An Arab murder ring that spe-
cialized in killing fellow Arabs
suspected of colloborating with Is-
raeli authorities was broken up in
Nablus after security forces de-
molished four buildings that had
been used as hideouts.
The group, all members of El
Fatah. was rounded up after one
of them attempted to escape over
the rooftops of the Nablus casbah, '
the old oriental section of town.
The owners of the buildings were
also arrested. The ring was un-1
covered as a result of eye-witness 1
reports that linked it to the mur- '
`Cutting Diplomatic Ties
Hurt Arab Nations'
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON—The Times observed
in an editorial Tuesday that more
damage was done to the Arab
countries than to the countries with
which they severed diplomatic re-
lations during last June's war with
Israel. The editorial referred to
Egyptian President Nasser's ad-
mission, in a Look magazine inter-
view, that his charges that Ameri-
can and British aircraft aided Is-
rael in the Six-Day War were
based on "suspicion" and "misin-
formation."
Nasser's original accusation was
followed by a flurry of severed dip-1
lomatic relations between t h e
Arabs and the Anglo-Americans,1
the Times said. "These diplomatic
links are only now slowly being
put together again."
this summer "to explore the causes
that block understanding and to
1MIBUICKS
THE BEST
FOR LESS
AT
air them thoroughly in a dispas-
sionate evaluation."
from the east bank of the Jordan
The chairman of the conference
and set up an ambush on the east I is Mrs. Naomi Ben-Asher, editor
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side of the road. Russian-made
Klatchnkov cartridges were found
nearby. Security authorities be-
liOve the incident may mark the
beginning of terrorist attacks on
civilian cars. Most previous at-
tacks have been on military ve-
hicles which return the fire.
Jordanians fired artillery and
mortars at Israeli units across the
Jordan river demarcation line Tues-
day night in the third such incident
in less than 12 hours. A military
spokesman said the artillery fire
came from a point on the east bank
of the river south of the Um
Shurt bridge. Israeli units returned
the fire whereupon the Jordanians
used mortars in an attempt to
knock out the Israeli guns, but
were silenced by Israeli artillery.
No casualties were reported.
The Jordanians initiated two ex-
changes of fire along the demarca-
tion line Tuesday at 10 a.m. and
again at noon.
Judiciary Committee.
The resolution would "recognize
and acknowledge the world signifi-
cance of the Warsaw Ghetto up-
rising as a reaffirmation of the
ineradicable determination to fight
for freedom from oppression."
Congress would join "in commem-
orating on April 25, the 25th an-
niversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising against Nazi occupation
forces by the beleagured and out-
numbered Jews of the Warsaw
Ghetto."
of "Junior Jewish Encyclopedia."
The conference is officially
sponsored by the League for Labor
Israel. which conducts Labor Zion-
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activities in the American Jewish
community, in association with the
Labor Zionist Organization of
America, Farb and, Pioneer
Women, Habonim and the Labor
Zionist Movement of Canada. The
gathering in Israel is being ar-
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madiyed, about a mile west of the
Jordan River, it was hit by auto-
matic fire at, point blank range.
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a grenade tossed by the raiders
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U.S. House, Senate Get Resolutions
Memorializing Warsaw Ghetto Revolt
cave near Ramallah where part
of the terrorist gang was hiding.
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other wounded in a brief ex-
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