Israeli Attack on Terrorist Bases Draws UN Ire

of Israel for its "aggression," and
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challenged the right of any nation would agree to measures in accord
practicing such means of warfare with the charter to end the "ag-
to come to the Security Council • gession and punish the aggres-
to plead a case for human rights sors."
in the Middle East. At this point,
George W. Ball of the United
Algeria asked for permission to States said his government did not
speak and urged the council presi- condone the "major military at-
dent to ask speake: s to restrict tack" against Jordan but at the
themselves to the council agenda same time it did not condone the
item. The council president then terrorist attacks by Jordan. There
asked Israel to do so.
should be a United Nations pres-
The Israel envoy, resuming his
ence in the area, and both sides
should be exhorted to lay down
statement, declared that Israel,
as a member of the UN, would their arms, he said.
question "the title of any state
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An. Israeli
that persecutes Jews and dis-
army unit, aided by helicopter-
criminates against them, to borne troops and a Piper Cub light
speak here on human rights," plane, penetrated Jordanian terri-
as well as the right of "any state tory early Monday morning and
guilty of aggression to question
engaged in a pitched battle with
Israel's right of self defense."
a gang of Arab saboteurs who had
He said that the "only way" for just shelled a clinic at Kibutz Ein
the council to act would be "not Yahav south of the Dead Sea. Five
by focusing on Israel's self- saboteurs were killed, and two
defense" but by seeing to it that were wounded and captured along
"Arab warfare" against Israel with a quantity of arms and am-
was ended.
munition, a military spokesman
The representative of Pakistan, said. There were no Israeli cas-
Ambassador Agha Shahi, said the ualties reported.
attack on Salt was the fourth large-
Israeli forces were engaged in a
scale act of aggression by Israel mortar duel with Jordanians for
in the last folir months and called two hours early Tuesday near the
it "comparably graver" than the j notion of the Israeli, Syrian and
earlier incidents. He called for a Tordanian borders. The clash was
Security Council pronouncement initiated at midnight on the Jor-
that would have a •'dcterrent ef- danian side of the line, possibly
fect on •Israel. • •
by saboteurs. There were no Is-
He denied the list of guerrilla raeli casualties.
activities and Jordanian military
The Ein Ya'hav settlement is lo-
activities against Israel cited by cated on the Araba road linking
Tekoah on Monday saying that 'Is- the Dead Sea with Eilat. Israeli
rael always has such a catalogue units pursued the saboteurs who
handy when it launches an attack.
used a bazooka against its clinic,
The "right of reprisal is the across the Jordan border. Two of
revival of the law of the jungle," the captured guerrillas who were
Yunus said. "It will be a sad day hospitalized in Beersheba later,
when the council accepts that law. admitted that they were members
in camouflage."
Of a grOup respons131e for sabo-
When the Security Council met tage activities in the Araba region
Monday, it heard statements by in recent weeks. They guided Is-
Jordan: Israel, • Iraq, Algeria, So- raeli troops to the spot vy1;(sre two
viet Union, United States and the mines had been planted to cover
United Kingdom.
their retreat. The mines were dis-
Jordan had asked for an urgent mantled. A military spokesman
meeting to consider "the grave noted that nearly 10 mining inci-
situation resulting from the con- , dents were recorded in the Araba
tinued Israeli acts of aggression region during the paSt month.
against Jordan." Israel asked that
Units of the Israel Air Force
the council resume consideration carried out the punitive strike
of Israel's complaintof "grave and Sunday against El Fatah sabo-
continual violations•••,::of the cease- tage bases and staging areas
fire by Jordan..." The council had near Salt, 15 miles west of the
last met on complaints by Jordan Jordanian capital of Amman.
and Israel on June .5.
I. The bombing - went. on intermit
Farra said that•in a bombing tentik for more than.ifiree.hours
attack by Israel .near Salt Sunday, and all Israeli planes returned
28 Jordanians had:been killed and safely to 'their b4seS. .
81 wounded. In June in an assault ,Israel government sources said
on Irib, he said, 59.-„jordanians had the aerial strike. at Salt came only
been killed and 121 injured. He after.:a. •long• series:.,of*arnings to
called•for effective and proper in- the Jordanian • government that Is-
ternational action against these at- ; rael would not tolerate continued
tacks, which he suggested were terrorist raids and sabotage on its
aimed. at causing. a panic among territory. The strike was ordered
the inhabitants "so that a vacuum after top-Ievel consultations on the
can be created for further Israeli political and security 2 implications
of such an action. .
expanSion and aggression."
.Chief , of Staff Maj. Gen Chaim
Tekoah said warfare against.
Bar-Lev. reported to the cabinet
Israel. was - pur-sued. from Jor
Monday on the resultS. of the air
danian territory despite the ob-
ligations. .aSsUmed - tk-.. Jordan, -attacks.. It is belieVed– that bar-
undei the cease fire' Israel had racks,- tents arict:.a.large number of
acted; in self-defense • against ter- VehieleS were deStrOyed:
rorists based in Jordarf..• He'. • Gen. Bar-Lev :-said at a press
called.-on the Council toraise . its _Conference Sunday that the Israeli
voice against "sanguinary" aetS...., iatahes did not bomb Salt villages
of aggression,. and. , appealed to and .even avoided bothbing..Jordan-
the council. to impress on Jor- ian military installations despite
dan the vital necessity to abide anti-aircraft fire directed against
by its cease-fire obligations and them. .
to terminate acts of agireSsion
lIe said the strike was ordered
from its territory. .);;..
as a result of a sharp , increase in
Adnan M. Pachachi of iraq , Said. terrorist incursions .into Israel-held
Israel had been encouragedby the ,territory during the month of July.
council's inaction. It should - n ow He said the Isaeli planes did not
take effective steps under the .
'hoinb the village of 'Salt or nearby
ter, or it would be giving Israel . 'a Jordanian army installations de-
license for its aggression, he said. spite anti-aircraft fire from the
Tewfik Bouattoura of Algeria . latter. He said that no Jordanian
said the council should erisilie ." ef•-: `aircraft were encountered.
fective implementation of previous.. . 4. military spokesman reported
resolutions, but this wa.s.;not pos: ,that : Jordanians opened fire with
sible while Israel occtiPation .con- 'tanks on Israeli forces near the
tintied. Israel had set out' to de- Allenby Bridge just as the air
stroy the "breadbasket" of Jor- strikes on the El Fatah bases
dan, he said. Yakov Aleksandro- were ending. Israeli units returned
vich Malik of the Soviet Union said the fire, precipitating a two - hour
he would support a condemnation tank and small arms duel after

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which the Jordanians brought ar-
tillery into action. A Jordanian
tank was hit and was seen to be
afire, the spokesman said. The
sabotage bases near Salt con-
tained the new headquarters of El
Fatah and arsenals of weapons and
high explosives. Gen. Bar-Lev de-
clared that the headquarters was
moved there from the former base
at Karameh which was severely
damaged by an Israeli air and
ground attack last March 21.

Gen. Bar-Lev disclosed that
the planes dropped thousands of
pamphlets listing the names of
El Fatah leaders and their com-
mando groups caught on Israeli
territory and wiped out by Is-
raeli forces. The pamphlets
noted that 44 El Fatah leaders
and men were killed during July
alone and that 1,200 were cap-
tured and were now in Israeli
prisons. The pamphlets warned
that raids against Israel would
result in the saboteurs being
killed, wounded or captured and
sentenced to long prison terms.'
They exhorted El Fatah mem-
bers and recruits not to believe
the "empty boasts of your com-
manders which contain nothing
but lies."
Gen. Bar-Lev said the air strike
was planned after it was ascer-
tained by intelligence and the in-
terrogation of captured El Fatah
members that the main bases and
headquarters had been moved to
Salt. After the . March Karameh
action, the incidence of sabotage
declined while El Fatah re-organ-
ized. But it has since increased
sharply. During July there were
98 incidents, Gen. Bar-Lev said. He
added that the camps near Salt
contained about 400 saboteurs in
various stages of training.
El Fatah guerrillas fired bazooka
shells and automatic weapons at
Israeli positions at Neve Ur in the

Beisan Valley early Monday morn-
ing, a military spokesman report-

ed. At the same time, a number of
mortar shells were fired from 'the
Jordanian side of the border at
Israeli units near Yardena. Israeli.
return fire silenced the attackers.
There were no casualties. No Is-
raeli casualties were •- reported
either in Simday's ,..three-libur ar-
tillery and- tank fire . &Lei between
Israeli and Jordanian . forces near
the Abdidlati- Bridge.

(The United States Department
Monday termed the attack by Is-
rael on Jordan territory "a tragic
breach of the cease-fire." Depart-
ment spokesman Carl Bartch said
that the U.S. had deplored such
attacks in the past "and continues
to deeply regret them because they
are not conducive to peace in the
Near East and because of the hu-
man tragedy involved.")

Palestinian Arabs returning from
Jordan Monday reported that casu-
alties suffered during Sunday's air
strike were much greater than the
number announced by Jordanian
officials.

A Hebron merchant, who said
he had received his information
from the Red Crescent, the Arab
red cross, estimated that 140 were
killed in the air attacks. He said
that all medical services in Jordan
were alerted, and every available
ambulance was sent to the Salt
region. The Amman radio said
Monday that 23 civilians and five
soldiers were killed and 76 civil-
ians and six soldiers were wound-
ed.
Returning Arabs said that air-
raid sirens were sounded in Am-
man on Sunday, but instead of tak-
ing shelter, many people went to
their roofs, certain that Israel
would not bomb the city.
Jordanian authorities have closed
two bridges over the Jordan River,
the Allenby and Damiyah cross-
overs, to Gaza Strip residents who

wish to enter Jordan, even for short
visits with relatives there, Israeli
authorities said. This action was
taken, Israel believes, in con-
nection with Jordan's allegation
that Israeli authorities are com-
pelling refugees of the Jabalia
refugee camp near the city of Gaza
to leave the Strip and go to Jordon.
This allegation has been emphati-
cally denied by Israeli authorities
in letters to United Nations Secre-
tary-General U Thant and to Lau-
rence Michelmore, chief of the
United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestinian refugees
(UNRWA).

Israel has made it possible for
Gaza residents to visit relatives
in Jordan or even move there,
sources here pointed out, in the
same way that similar privileges
have been extended to residents
of other occupied territories. One
source said, "for 20 years the
Egyptians, wishing to keep refu-
gees impoverished and living in an
under-developed condition for polit-
ical reasons, prevented any move-
ment of refugees from the Strip.
Now many wish to go places and
see relatives—or just visit. Israel
is not evicting anybody."

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