El Fatah Suffers Heavy Losses, Their Bluffs Exposed

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Six Arab
terrorists were killed in a clash
Monday morning when they were
intercepted by an Israeli patrol in
the Umm Shurt pass between the
Allenby and Damiyah Bridges in
the Jordan Valley.
The infiltrators were clad in
light khaki army uniforms over
civilian clothing. Among the arms
they carried were six Russian-
made Klatchnikoff assault rifles
with 500 rounds of ammunition,
four improvised bazookas, 13 hand
grenades, 30 detonation charges,
30 demolition charges, detonation
cords and firing devices.
An Arab terrorist told a military
tribunal in Nablus Monday that a
band of infiltrators of which he
had been a member had been in-
structed to cross into Israel and
'-'*snap and bring back at least one
wish prisoner, male or female.
—is four-man band was intercepted
by an Israeli patrol when it
crossed the Jordan River near
Umm Tzutz. Three of the men
were killed in the ensuing fight.
The fourth, Assam Douek, 20, who
admitted being a member of the
"Motherland Freedom Front," was
captured. He was sentenced to
eight years' imprisonment.
An Israeli pickup truck Mon-
day hit a land mine near Ein
Yahav on the Arab road to Eilat
south of the Dead Sea. Saboteurs
active in the area were believed
to have sowed mines along the
road.
An Israeli army patrol, consist-
ing of two armored cars, inter-

cepted a band of saboteurs on the three.. others.. escaped into.. Jor-
Araba road Sunday night and danian territory when an Arab ter-
routed the infiltrators after an rorist unit was repulsed while at-
exchange of fire. One Israel sol- tempting to penetrate an Israeli
dier was slightly wounded. The position near the Damiyah Bridge
clash took place between Sodom early Friday morning. A Russian-
and Eilat less than two miles from made bazooka was found near the
the Jordanian border. The am- dead saboteur. There were no Is-
bushers were routed. Search later raeli casualties.
uncovered three anti-vehicle mines
During the past two weeks,
planted to prevent pursuit.
army sources reported, 17 terror-
El Fatah, the Arab guerrilla ists had been rounded up in the
organization, was frying to es- Hebron and Bethlehem areas.
tablish underground cells in Some of those arrested were be-
Israel-held territories because lieved to have been collecting mili-
the method of bringing raiders tary information according to the -
across the river from bases in London Daily Telegraph.
Jordan have proved too costly, a
An Israeli soldier was slightly
military spokesman reported. An injured Saturday morning when a
El Fatah courier, one of five ar- jeep hit a mine in the southern
rested in Ramallah several days part of the Golan Heights not far
ago, was found to have money in from the Jordanian border. In the
his possession and instructions Beisan Valley area, a border po-
to set up El Fatah cells in the lice halftrack was attacked Friday
region. -
morning by bazooka shells and
Israeli patrols all along the machinegun fire while on routine
cease-fire demarcation line have patrol near Ashdid Yaacov. An-
managed to halt most El Fatah other armored car and Army ve-
sabotage and terrorist forays be- hicles rushed to the scene and
fore they get started.
opened fire to silence Jordanian
As El Fatah losses continued
to mount, so have the accounts
of their "victories" over Israelis.
ELECTRONIC
El Fatah announced a few days
GARAGE DOOR
ago That they had killed 600 Is-
raelis and wounded 300 in a
OPENER
single month. They also claimed
to have destroyed or damaged
every bridge in Israel. Israeli
security officials dismissed
these claims as "oriental day-
dreams."
In the most serious guerrilla in-
cident reported over the weekend,
Israeli Army authorities said one
Arab saboteur was killed and

Food Stamp Plan
Urged in NY for
Needy Orthodox

NEW YORK (STA) — A na-
tional Jewish organization has
asked New York City Mayor John
Lindsay to seek city adoption of
the federal food stamp plan both
for the city's general poor popu-
lation and particularly for its
Jewish poor. The request was
made to the mayor by the Nation-
al Jewish Commission on Law and
Public Affairs (COLPA), an or-
ganization formed to assist Ortho-
dox Jews in areas of public policy.
Harvey Schwartz, chairman of
COLPA's newly-formed committee
on social welfare, declared in the
letter that many needy Orthodox
Jewish families were ineligible for
the present surplus food distribu-
tion program administered by the
city. Under existing law, a city
may have either program but not
both. .
Such families, he said in the
letter "would be able to benefit
under the liberalized eligibility
standards of the food stamp
plan." He pointed out also that
the types of food distributed in
the city's surplus food program
-mo
I
were limited and often of a type
forbidden to observant Jews.
In contrast, he noted, the variety
of foods available under the food
stamp plan was virtually unlim-
ited. Users of federal food stamps
may apply them to purchase of
standard packaged foods in any
ilrocery. In most of them a wide
ariety of rabbinically-certified
":,.osher products is available, and
"thus, full participation in the
program's benefits, denied to
Orthodox Jews by the present, sur-
plus food program, would be avail-
able to them under the food stamp
plan," Schwartz said.
He noted also that the food sur-
plus plan provides for food distri-
bution only once a month and only
at a local food surplus depot,
whereas the food stamp program,
`93ecause of these restrictive limi-
tations, would be a far simpler and
less demanding method of pro-
viding food aid to needy families."

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