Growing Casualties, Bombings in Arab-Israel Conflict
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Israeli sources said none of the
injured persons was seriously hurt.
Two American tourists, girls in
their early 20s, were treated for
shock. They were identified as An-
drea Blatt of Pacific Palisades.
Calif.. and Marie Frolich of Los
Angeles. There were about 2.000
Jews praying at•the wall when the
bombs went off in the nearby
street. Police cleared the area as
ambulances removed the injured.
A short while later. security offi-
cials declared the area safe, and
the worshipers returned. A search
was launched for the terrorists
and 36 Arabs were arrested. Nine
were released and the rest remain.
ed in custody.
HAIFA (JTA)—Arab commandos
conducted their most daring raid
Monday since the Six-Day War
when they blew up four 12-inch oil
pipelines in the Port of Haifa.
The commandos struck about 8
a.m. in the city's fuel harbor. The
destroyed pipes _spilled about 1.500
tons of blazing oil as firemen
fought the blaze with foam for
about five hours before controlling
it.
It was the first Arab strike at
a major industrial target inside
Israel since the June 1967 war.
and two Arab guerrilla organi-
zations claimed credit for it.
Police rounded up 169 suspects
Tuesday for questioning, but
later released all but 55 of them.
A single stick of dynamite was
found on the sandy stretch
spanned by the pipelines which
link the oil refineries with the
fuel jetty in Haifa port, five
miles away.
Police said footprints were -found
indicating that the explosives were
planted by one man They said the
saboteur may have been brought
In the area by car and are check-
ITIL: on vehicles seen in the area.
R ■ uid blocks and check points were
set up on the aupro.iches to Haifa
and in other parts of the country.
The loss of fuel oil—about 1.000
claimed that an Israeli jet was t replied that the whole proposed fellow vice presidents of the Gen-
service by Thursday.
The psychological impact of the downed in the dogfight over the procedure was "without a legal eral Assembly to appoint the three-
act far exceeded the damage done. Gulf of Suez, about 30 miles south basis at any of its stages." Israel member committee.
The Haifa refineries, the center of of Port Suez.
I opposed the resolution to establish
Israel's growing petro-chemical in-
An Israeli military spokesman the committee last winter and said
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dustry, is one of the most heavily reported that several 60-mm mor- there can be no investigation of the
guarded areas in the country It tar shells were fired Tuesday at Arabs' conditions unless the status
is located far from the borders-- an Israeli patrol in the Beisan of Jews in Arab lands is similarly
some 12 miles south of the Leba- area. He noted that Arab guer- probed.
nese frontier and about 30 miles rillas were using mortars for the
A Peruvian, Luis Alvarado Gar-
west of the Jordanian line. Pene- first time in preference to rockets rido, was selected by 16 of his
tration of the area was a coup for and bazookas, apparently because
the saboteurs. In Cairo and Beirut, of the mortars' longer range.
El Fatah spokesmen claimed that
In response, Israel Air Force
MINISTERS SHAPIRO, EBAN, DAYAN TO ADDRESS
their forces had carried out the jets struck again Wednesday at
mission. That claim was disputed military positions in Jordan. The
R.Z.A. CONVENTION IN ISRAEL
in Amman. where the Popular sortie, the third over Jordan since
Front for the Liberation of Pales- Sunday, lasted 25 minutes.
tine alleged that their commandos
According to a military spokes-
did the job.
man, guerrilla positions were
Observers here said the sabo-
bombed and strafed and all planes
tage of the pipelines may herald
returned safely to their bases. He
a change of tactics on the part
said the pilots reported some anti-
of Arab guerrillas whose targets
aircraft fire from hilltop emplace-
heretofore have been civilian.
ments.
Iasi month, the German-owned
'I he Beisan Valley settlement of
Tziuline pipeline carrying crude oil Maoz Chaim was subjected to a
from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon 20-minute mortar attack Tuesday
ports was sabotaged along an 18- night which caught most of the
mile stretch in the Israel-occupied settlers in bed.
Golan Heights. The effects of that
The shelling started shortly
insider: were felt not by Israel but
after midnight. sending adults
2ai
b ; r t . - i
to, mowners innd o s 1 t .ah. e r aps.i pvelhi inceh.
into bomb shelters where the
children were already asleep.
received royalties for transit rights.
One 82 - mm shell hit the unoccu-
pied children's house. No casual-
TEL AVIV (JTAl—Israeli and
ties were reported. Israeli return
Egyptian jets fought an air battle
fire silenced the Jordanian posi-
over the Gulf of Suez Tuesday as
tions.
Egyptian commandos staged their
Reports from Cairo Tuesday said
third foray in three days against
Israeli positions on the East Bank that President Gamal Abdel Nas-
of the Suez Canal. The scene of the ser fired Egypt's air force com-
raid was an Israeli army outpost mander. Gen. Mustafa Shalabi el
at El Shatt. four miles north of Henawi• and replaced him with
1000 delegates are expected to attend the 60th Annual
Port Suez. An Israeli military Soviet-trained Gen. Aly Mustafa
Convention of the Religious Zionists of America, Miz-
Baghdadi.
Gen.
Baghdadi
is
the
spokesman said one Egyptian MIG-
rachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi to be held in Jerusalem July
over fourth commander named to head
30-Aug. 3rd. Among the speakers will be Moshe Shapiro,
Egyptian territory and that its the Egyptian Air Force since most
pilot was apparently killed. All of it was destroyed by Israeli jets
Minister of Interior and President of World Mizrachi
Israeli jets were reported to have in the opening hours of the Six-
Movement (upper left), Abba Eban, Minister of Foreign
Day War.
returned safely to their bases.
Affairs (top center), Moshe Dayan, Minister of Defense
The spokesman said Israeli
Israeli commandos raided an
forces repulsed the Egyptian com-
Egyptian naval radar station on
(top right), the Chief Rabbis and other dignitaries. The
mando attack which came during
the west bank of the Gulf of
keynote address will be delivered by Rabbi Herschel
an intense artillery barrage. One
Suez early Sunday killing 15
Schacter, R.Z.A. President and chairman of the Confer-
Israeli soldier was killed. Ile was
Egyptians and smashing the
radar, a signaling installation,
ence of Presidents of major American Jewish Organiza-
tons valued at 555.000 poured into identified as Josef Korrenblum. 20.
of
Nzihariya.
a
searchlight
and
generator.
All
the Kishon River after the blast—
tions (bottom left). Convention chairman is Dr. Bernard
Authorities here assessed results
the Israelis returned safely to
is negligible. N••ither Israel's do-
Bergman (bottom center). Rabbi Harry Wohlberg,
their bases, a military spokes-
mestic fuel supply nor its petro- of Monday's Israeli commando
Chairman of the R.Z.A. executive board (bottom right)
man said.
leum exports were affected. The raid against military positions in
In other fighting. four Arab sa-
will deliver an important address.
oil carried by the damaged 12-inch Jordan which severely damaged
pipes was for bunkering ships call- the country's major irrigation boteurs were killed and a fifth was
project.
The
raid
followed
two
wounded
and
captured
in
a
battle
ing at Haifa Port. The pipes were
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expected to be repaired and in - warnings from Premier Golda in the Jezreel Valley near Mount
Meir to King Hussein of Jordan Tabor deep inside Israel.
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against continuing artillery at-
An Israeli spokesman also an-
tacks on Israeli settlements in the nounced the deaths of one Israeli
Beisan Valley.
soldier and two Arab guerrillas in
The Ghor Canal diverted water a running battle Thursday near
from the Yarmuk River to irrigate Sdom on the south shore of the
farms in northern Jordan. It was Dead Sea. The Israeli patrol sur-
completed five years ago after six prised a band of saboteurs trying
years of construction and served to plant explosives near tractors.
an estimated 60,000 Jordanians. Israeli jets Sunday pounded Jor-
Most of the benefiting farmers danian artillery positions in the
were said to have left the region northern Jordan Valley after fire
proudly presents its
as a result of frequent artillery had been directed at Beisan Val-
battles. Reports reaching here said, ley settlements. The planes return-
however, that many Arab farmers ed safely after a 45-minute bom-
continued to work in their fields bardment, a military spokesman
during the day, returning at night said.
to their families in the Gilead Tekoah Hits Thant Initiative
Hills.
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