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 MORR B0 1 CK ! 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- ist educational, cultural and social 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. 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