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Israeli Commandos Destroy Egyptian Dam in Lightning Retaliation
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — Israeli commando
units struck deep Wednesday into
southern Egypt and smashed an
Upper Nile dam, a bridge and
high tension wires that carry elec-
tric current to Cairo.
A military spokesman said dam-
age was extensive and 'could have
cy. One observer said that
the
Egyptians attempted to cross tbe
canal in force they would to so
through the salt marshes near
killed in those clashes, a military
Kantara, about 25 miles south of
spokesman said. Nine Israeli sol-
Port Said, where the Ismer"
diers were injured last Thursday
would be unable to use tanks. The
night when their truck hit a mine
observer said the Egyptians might
south of El Arish in the north-
depend on their superior numbera
ern Sinai Peninsula. All were hos-
to gain a salient on the canal's
spokesman
said.
pitalized and three were releas-
Three Israeli soldiers were in- east bank.
ed almost immediately,
Maj. Naftali Porat, an Israeli
Jordanian forces fired ba- jured when an army vehicle
pilot killed in an air raid
zooka shells at an Israeli patrol struck a mine northeast of an- fighter
over
Jordan last week, was
tara
on
the
Suez
Canal
Sunday.
near Shaar Hagolan in the Bei-
burled
Tuesday. His body was
Another Israeli soldier was
san Valley Sunday. Mortar and
and returned from Jordan Monday
automatic fire was exchanged wounded during artillery
along
the
under
International
Red Cross
small
arms
exchanges
between Israeli and Jordanian
forces near the valley settle- waterway. A military spokesman auspices.
Maj. Porat's Mirage jet was hit
ment of Mar Ruppin Saturday said the Egyptians started the
confirmed the fact that fire was Jordan rift south of the Dead Sea.
over the weekend.
initiated by the Egyptians."
Four potential saboteurs were
The statement said the Egyptian
assaults have not undermined Is-
raeli positions but "represent an
uninterrupted provocation, any
acceptance of which is interpreted
by Egyptian authorities as encour-
agement of further and more seri-
ous acts of aggression." The
been even greater because the statement concluded that Wednes-
commandos encountered no oppo- day's commando operations "were
sition. All participants in the raid destined to remind Egyptian auth-
returned safely to their bases, he orities of their responsibility for
said. violating the cease-fire agreements
Premier Golda Meir said the and to make them aware that
raids were in retaliation for re- their acts of aggression cannot
cent Egyptian commando forays continue without being reacted
against Israeli positions on the to."
Egypt Monday blamed Israel
east bank of the Suez Canal. They
for firing on United Nations ob-
were the second Israeli comman-
servation posts along the Suez
do strikes into the heart of Egypt
Canal and called the Security
since last Nov. 1.
Council's "urgent attention"
A military spokesman listed the
to what it termed "the grave
targets as the Nadj Hamadi Dam
situation
prevailing in the Suez
and Bridge which spans the Upper
Canal sector which has recently
Nile and was a target in the Nov.
attained a high degree of
1 raids; the Idfu Bridge, linking
danger."
the Red Sea with the Wadi Haifa
The charge against Israel con-
farming area; and a cluster of py-
Ions and power lines between Isna tained in a letter to the Security
Council
president from Egyptian
and Nadj Hamadi that carry 500,-
000-volt loads to Cairo. The target Ambassador Mohammed Awad el-
areas were about 60 miles north Kony, contradicted the chief UN
of the Aswan High Dam and about truce observer. Lt. Gen. Odd Bull.
290 miles south of the capital. Is- of Norway, who has blamed Egypt
raeli sources said one span of the for starting most- of the gun battles
dam was destroyed. causing ex- across the waterway.
El-Kony reiterated Cairo's con-
tensive flooding and that the raid
caused an electric power failure tention that only implementation
of
the Security Council's Nov. 22.
in Cairo.
1967 resolution could lead to
(However, Western newsmen
peace in the Middle East. As
who inspected the target areas by
Egypt interprets the resolution. in
low-flying plane and by bus said calls for Israeli withdrawal from
they had seen no evidence of any occupied territory before any of
damage or flooding).
its other clauses become operative.
Egypt said Wednesday that Is-
Egypt Sunday appeared to be
raeli planes attempted to bomb back-tracking from reports last
Nadj Hamadi and Idfu villages-•036k that it considered the cease
but were driven off by antiaircraft fire Song Cie Suez Canal null
fire and void. The semi-official Cairo
Mohammed ei-Zayyat, the of- newspaper Al Ahram, which re-
ficial government spokesman. fleets the views of President Gam-
called the attacks a "miserable al Abdel Nasser. accused foreign
failure" and said no damage was
press media as having "distorted"
suffered by Egyptian installa- a statement made last Thursday by
tions. Cairo made no mention of el-Zayyat.
Al Ahram confirmed that the
an Israeli commando raid.
Military sources here said the Cairo government acknowledged
motivations for Wednesday's raid all United Nations resolutions. in-
were clearly outlined in Mrs. eluding the cease-fire resolution
Meir's statement that the strike of June 10. 1967 and the Nov. 22.
was to "remind . ' Egypt of its re- 1967 measure setting forth prin-
sponsibility to live up to the cease- ciples for a Mid East settlement
fire agreements. The raid was also The Al Ahram report was in ef-
apparently intended to demon- feet a reply to a U.S. statement of
strate to Cairo the vulnerability of concern over reports that Egypt
southern Egypt and the Upper did not consider itself bound by
Nile Valley. the cease-fire resolution. The con-
cern was voiced by State Depart-
An not
Israeli
spokesman
stressed
that
a shot
was fired
in the ment spokesman Robert J. McClos-
entire operation, indicating that key. The U.S. was also reported to
Cairo's much-publicized civil de- have conveyed to the Egyptian gov-
tense forces either did not exist ernment through diplomatic chan-
or were impotent. Military sourc- iris an appeal to restore the cease-
es would give no hint as to how fire along the canal.
I was in reaction to Thant's
It
the Israeli commandos reached
report that Dr. el-Zayyat made
their targets.
the statement in Cairo last week
It was believed, however, that
that Egyptian guns will continue
at least part of the striking force
to fire across the canal so long
was helicopter-borne, as in last
as Israel continued to fortify its
November's raids.
positions on the east bank. Al
The distance from Ras-Moham-
Ahram quoted Dr. el-Zayyat as
mad, the southernmost point on
having said "the cease-fire de-
the Sinai Peninsula.. to Idfu is
cisions cannot remain in force
nearly 200 miles. The raiders ap-
forever. If this were the case,
parently made an air jump across
we should have agreed that Is-
the Red Sea. The Nadj Hamadi
rael should have new borders
dam, which was apparently the
on the case-fire line." Al Ab-
principal target, is 880 yards long
ram claimed the news agencies
and 20 yards wide and has a lock
had distorted the statements.
to permit the passage of river
It was reported from Cairo last
craft.
Saturday that Egypt had informed
The first announcement of the the UN that it did not consider the
raid came in a statement from Suez Canal to be the cease-fire
the premier's office released at line envisioned by the Security
3:99 a.m. local time. It noted that Council's June 1967 resolution. Ac-
"For some time now Egypt has cording to Cairo, the line should
been violating her obligations to be east of the canal along posi-
abide by the cease-fire agreement" tions allegedly held by Egypian
and cited almost continual shelling troops when the resolution was
across the Suez Canal, sniping and adopted, from which they were
mine-laying expeditions by Egyp- subsequently driven by Israeli
tian units in Israel-held territory. forces acting in violation of the
The statement said these cease-fire.
Last Friday night Israel forces
"acts of aggression represent
an advanced stage of Egypt's repulsed an Egyptian commando
premeditated war against Is- 'raid across the Suez Canal south
rael" and noted that "members I of Kantara, killing six Egyptians.
of the UN staff, having been ,Israelis also fought gun battles
, wounded a number , of Hines I with guerripas in,,the Gaza ,Strip,,
themselves, have 'repeatedly the Golan - Heights and - in- the
night. No Israeli casualties were
reported in either incident.
wounded in a small arms duel
along the southern section of the
Jordan River. Jordanian forces
fired several mortar shells and
small arms at an Israeli patrol
near Ashdod Yaaeov in the Beisan
Valley this morning. Israeli forces
returned the f ire. There were n o
Israeli casualties, a military
of Kantara and by ground fire while attacking
later opened fire near the south Egyptian radar tracking installa-
end of the canal as well. The tions deep in Jordan.
attacks north
The semi-official Middle East Egyptians used anti-tank missiles
News Agency in Cairo said Egyp- in addition to artillery.
Nothing that actually occurs is 01
tian troops attacked an Israeli ar-
An Israeli official said today the smallest importance. — Oscar
tillery outpost and munitions dump that the Egyptian Army has been Wilde.
and rocket base near Port Fuad placed on a war footing and that
in the northwest Sinai last Satur- Israeli forces along the Suez Canal
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day. Syria claimed that an Israeli were prepared for any contingen- 16 — Friday, May 2, 1969
soldier was killed and an Israeli
half track and an observation post
were destroyed in a gun duel in
the Golan Heights that day.
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Maj. Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev. chief
of staff of Israel's armed forces.
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