Assault Viewed as Possible Test
of American and Israli Intentions
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future Egyptian commando incur-
sions across the Suez Canal into
Israel-held Sinai.
Funerals were held in a number
of Israeli cities and towns Monday
for the 15 Israeli soldiers who were
killed along the Suez Canal. In the
Knesset, the entire chamber and
the visitors' gallery rose to observe
a minute of silence in tribute to the
fallen soldiers. A funeral was held
in the Galilee town of Rosh Pina
Monday for Gilad Shamai, one of
the two soldiers killed in a clash
with saboteurs near the Lebanese
border Saturday. He was buried
next to the grave of his brother
who was killed two years ago when
his tractor hit a mine near Kora-
zim, north of Lake Tiberias.
Washington observers believe
that last Saturday Egyptian artil-
lery assault across the Suez Canal
may have been a Moscow-devised
test of United States and Israeli
reactions prior to other moves
such as the clearing of the canal
by Russian dredges.
They pointed out thkt the attack
was apparently timed to occur
when Washington was preoccupied
with the election campaign and
anxious to avoid a confrontation
with the Soviets. U.S. officials
noted the presence of Soviet gun-
nery officers at all echelons of
the Egyptian artillery command
but carefully avoided comment or
involvement in the latest incident.
(The influential and authoritative
Cairo daily, Al Ahram, asserted
Monday that the artillery clashes
and commando attacks at the
canal marked a "turning point"
in the undeclared war in the Mid-
dle East. It quoted Gen. Moham-
med Fawzi, Egyptian war minis-
ter, as asserting that Egyptian
troops had given "a living example
of offensive fighting spirit." The
paper added that the engagement
"showed the Arabs' increasing
ability to resist and check the
enemy and impose on the Israelis
a solution other than what they
want.")
(At the UN, Egypt accused Is-
rael of "premeditated military ag-
gression" last Saturday by launch-
ing an attack against Port Tewfik
with 216mm. ground-to-ground
rockets. In a letter to the Security
Council, Egypt said the rockets
were intended to shell population
centers in the Suez Canal area,
and that Israel had caused loss of
lives, property damage and de-
struction to homes.
(Lebanon lodged its second com-
plaint this week with the Security
Council alleging shellings by Is-
raeli forces of positions inside the
Lebanese borders. In a letter to
the Security Council president
Tuesday, Lebanon's representa-
tive, Ambassador Edouard Ghor-
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ra, charged that Israeli forces
fired 150 mortar shells at two bor-
der positions near the villages of
Honine and Al-Malikya on Monday.
He called it an "act of aggression
. . . unprovoked and unjustified
and . . . a threat to the security
of Lebanon."
(Ghorra complained to the Se-
curity Council Monday that Israeli
forces had shelled the Lebanese
village of Almajydia the day be-
fore, wounding two soldiers and
damaging houses and livestock.)
Two Israeli civilians were in-
jured Monday morning when a
tractor they were using hit a mine
south of Menara in Upper Galilee
near the Lebanese border. Two
other civilians were injured in a
Jordanian rocket attack on the
town of Beisan in the Beisan Val-
ley. Electric wires were hit causing
a temporary blackout, but other
damage was slight and there were
no serious casualties, a military
spokesman said.
An Israeli patrol intercepted and
captured a band of eight Arab
saboteurs from Jordan in a brief
exchange of fire about 12 miles
north of Jericho Monday, a mili-
tary spokesman announced. Two of
the saboteurs were wounded but
there were no Israeli casualties.
The patrol also seized a large
quantity of firearms, bazooka
shells and shell casings used to
make self-firing devices. Demoli-
tion charges and high explosives
were also found on the captured
men. They told interrogators later
that they came from Karameh, the
commando base in Jordan, and
belonged to the Palestinian Popu-
lar Liberation Front.
Israel's armored corps can
mobilize for large scale operations
without calling up reserves of men
and tanks, the armored corps' com-
mander, Brig. Gen. Israel Tal,
said Monday. He spoke on the oc-
casion of armored corps day which
coincided with the 12th anniversary
of the 1956 Sinai Campaign, the
first battle in which Israeli armor
was employed on a large scale.
Gen. Tal said his command has
replaced all of the losses suffered
in the Six-Day War and would be
strengthened shortly.
Find Parachute on East Bank
of Canal; Seen as Indication
of an Air Space Violation
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The rear
brake parachute of an Egyptian
MIG jet fighter was found by
Israeli forces on the East Bank of
the Suez Canal. It was believed to
have come from one of the Egyp-
tian MIGS that Israeli jets chased
out of Israel-held air space in an
encounter over the Suez Canal Oct.
23.
Military authorities said it was
proof that the Egyptian aircraft
had tried to penetrate the skies
over Sinai, probably on a recon-
naisance mission. They conceded
that the Israeli jets might have
violated Egyptian air space in pur-
suit. The Israeli pilots jettisoned
their reserve fuel tanks to increase
their speed and the tanks appar-
ently fell on Egyptian territory.
Diplomatic Immunity
Invoked to Avoid Probe
in Death of Attache
LONDON (JTA)—The Israel
Embassy invoked diplomatic im-
munity to avoid an inquest into
the death of its press attache, Ma-
jor Mattityahu Sharon, which an
embassy spokesman called a clear
case of suicide.
Maj. Sharon was found dead of
a pistol wound in his St. Johns
Wood apartment Oct. 13.
Police said there was no evi-
dence of foul play. The embassy
spokesman said there was nothing
to hide but that there was no point
in causing further distress to Maj.
Sharon's wi d o w and family.
The major had been married only
a week at the time of his death.
His body was flown to Israel
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Cairo charged that Israeli jets
had violated Egyptian air space
and claimed that two planes were
shot down and a third hit by Egyp-
tian fighters. Israeli authorities
said the Egyptian claim was
"sheer nonsense." They said the
Israeli aircraft had blocked an
intrusion by the Egyptian jets and
returned safely to their bases.
Military sources said that the
brake parachute may have dropped
from the Egyptian plane because
of a pilot's error or because the
plane was hit by Israeli fire. They
said the encounter did not amount
to an air battle but that the Israeli
pilots fired short bursts at the
Egyptians, who turned and fled.
4 Arab Saboteurs Killed,
1 Hurt in Clash With Israel
Patrol at Jordan River
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Four Arab
saboteurs were killed Oct. 23 and
a fifth was wounded and surrender-
ed following a clash with an Israeli
patrol near Umm Sidra, a crossing-
point of the Jordan River. A heavy
artillery barrage from the Jor-
danian side of the river was be-
lieved intended to cover the cross-
ing of the saboteurs whose bodies
were found Oct. 24 along with a
large quantity of weapons.
Two Israeli soldiers were injured
Oct. 23 when an Army halftrack
was attacked by bazooka fire, ma-
chineguns and hand grenades near
a southern suburb of Gaza.
Israeli mortars hit Jordanian
positions hard near the village of
Bakoura on the East Bank fol-
lowing a mortar attack on Israeli
forces near Ashdod Yaacov in the
Beisan • Valley. The exchange
lasted a half hour, a military
spokesman reported.
Two Israeli cars were attacked
on a road near Al Hamma in the
southern Golan Heights. The firing
came from the Jordanian side of
the demarcation line. There were
no casualties.
A 30-year prison sentence was
imposed by a military tribunal on
Abdoul Kamia Moustafa, sole sur-
vivor of a band of Arab saboteurs
from Jordan. He was wounded and
captured in an encounter with an
Israeli patrol in which his five
companions were killed. According
to testimony, his group planned to
mine roads and attack vehicles and
settlements with bazooka fire.
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