Israeli Jets Strike at Guerrilla Bases in Lebanon
went off near the labor exchange
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office in Nablus last Friday, caus-
by an explosion.
Israeli authorities evacuated ing slight damage but no casual-
and sealed off two houses in ties. Three Israeli soldiers were
Nablus Tuesday whose owners wounded in an artillery exchange
are suspected of having thrown across the Suez Canal the previous
hand grenades at the military day, and an Israeli patrol was the
governor's office. Israel army target of hand grenades and small
arms fire near Khan Yunis in the
sappers demolished two other
Nablus buildings belonging to Gaza Strip. The patrol killed one
of
the attackers.
suspected saboteurs Monday. But
A small water conduct was dam-
they decided to seal off the re-
maining two because their de- aged by an explosion Tuesday
struction would imperial adja- night near Khan Yunis. An Israeli
outpost near Tirat Zvi in the south-
cent buildings.
A night curfew was imposed on ern Beisan Valley was fired on by
Gaza township in the Gaza Strip Jordanian forces Tuesday night.
as a result of increased sabotage Israeli units returned the fire and
in the region. The curfew, in effect suffered no casualties.
from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. does not
Israeli Air Force planes struck
include the refugee camps nearby. Monday for a second time at Jor-
Israeli jets went into action for dan's Ghor irrigation canal in an
the second time in 12 hours Mon- attack on military objectives in
day. Their target was a heavily response to an upsurge of Jor-
wooded area on the southwest danian shooting across the cease-
slopes of Mt. Hermon in Lebanon fire line and guerrilla raids against
where Arab guerrilla bands are be- civilian settlements and army units
lieved to have concentrated in re- in the Beisan and Jordan Valley
cent weeks. All the planes returned sectors.
safely to their bases.
Officials indicated that the
A military spokesman said the
canal was again damaged in the
attack was launched at noon and
one-hoar raid. All Israeli planes
lasted 30 minutes. It was the sec-
returned safely to base. After
ond time Israeli jets struck at tar-
the first air raid on the canal
gets in Lebanon since the Six-Day , last June 13, Beisan Valley set-
War. The previous attack was ! tlements had almost two weeks
made on the same area July 30.
of calm without a single attack
A Lebanese spokesman in Beirut
on any settlement. Premier
claimed that the Israeli jets struck
Golda Meir said at the time that
in and around the Arquoh area 60
if the quiet was continued by
miles south of the capital.
Jordan. Israel would not inter-
Israeli sources said the area
fere with repair work on the
canal, a pledge Israel kept.
bit contained seven guerrilla
Popular Front for the Liberation
However, officials said, soon
bases set up by El Fatah, the
after repairs were completed. the
Popular Front for the Liberation
Jordanians renewed their attacks.
of Palestine and the Syrian-spon- which reached a peak in 24 hours
sored El Saiqua commandos. with five assaults on settlements
They have been in the area since
and Israeli army units. The official
the end of 1968 and according to
emphasized that the two-week pe-
Israeli reports were responsible riod of tranquility demonstrated
for at least 21 incidents of terror that Jordanian officials could con-
and sabotage during the past trol both their army and Jordan-
month.
ian-based saboteurs if they wished
Observers reported Tuesday that to.
Lebanese villagers were evacuat-
Herut Party leader Menahem
ing the area that came under the Begin said Monday night that King
heavy Israeli air attack. Lebanese Hussein of Jordan must choose be-
border villages were blacked outs tween "blood and water." At a
Monday night.
public meeting in Beisan Town
(Lebanon complained to the Unit- ship, Begin noted that Israel per-
ed Nations that Israeli jets dropped mitted repairs to be made on con-
napalm on Lebanese villages Mon- dition that Jordan ceased its at-
day. In a letter to the president of tacks on Israeli settlements in the
the Security Council. Lebanon's Beisan Valley. "Hussein had a
representative, Yahya Mahmas- choice of water or bloodshed, and
sani, said that four civilians were he chose bloodshed," Begin de-
killed and three were seriously in- clared.
jured in the attack. He said a
He criticized the Times of Lon-
woman who suffered napalm burns don for referring to the attack on
died shortly after being admitted Jordan's water supply as an "in-
to a hospital in Sidon. Lebanese ternational crime."
and guerrilla spokesman said in
(King Hussein formed a new cab-
Beirut that the Israeli attacks met Tuesday, including pro-guer-
killed seven persons, three of them I net Tuesday, including pro-guer-
guerrillas and wounded 10 includ- rilla politicians four of whom have
ing seven guerrillas.
not served in previous Jordanian
(According to Lebanese sources, governments. The latest govern-
the Israeli raid was carried out ment shake-up followed the resigna-
by 10 bombers and six Mirage tion of Premier Abdul Rifai. He
fighters which attacked with na- was replaced by Babjat Talhouni.
palm, rockets and machinegun
(Seven of the new cabinet mem-
fire.)
bers were said to support active
Israeli sources said the raid was guerrilla warfare against Israel.
carried out in response to an escal- Observers said their appointment
ation of sabotage and terrorist ac- was a clear sign that guerrilla
tivities from Lebanese territory in warfare would increase.)
Premier Golda Meir has of-
recent weeks. They said that Arab
fered Jordan a second chance to
commandos encamped on Lebanese
soil have established an enclave repair the canal if the Jordan-
near the Israeli border over which ians keep the border area quiet.
the Lebanese government has no
Mrs. Meir said in a television in-
control. They were held responsi- terview that Israel would not inter-
ble for 21 incidents during the past fere with the repairs if the Jor-
dan government took effective
month.
Two Israeli soldiers were injured steps to ensure that the cease fire
Monday when they stepped on a would be observed. Two Israeli
mine in the Mt. Hermon area of engineers reportedly made a brief
the Golan Heights. The soldiers visit across the cease-fire line to
were investigating an Army vehi- inspect the damage inflicted on the
50-mile, $85,000,000 canal, Jordan's
cle that hit a mine earlier.
A bridge on a road near the largest irrigation system.
Mrs. Meir's offer was viewed as
Lebanon border was damaged last
Friday by explosives, and shots a display of good will on the Israeli
were fired simultaneously at an side and a tacit acknowledgement
Israeli car. Army engineers re- of the interest the United States
paired the damage/Nt=lties has in the Ghor canal which was
were reported. veral usha built with large U.S. loans and
rockets were fir at the Sdom grants to Jordan. When the canal
potash plant on t ' south Shore was damaged June 23, the U.S.
of the Dead Sea wirut causing government interceded with Israel
casualties or dams e. A bomb to permit repairs to be made.
14 — Friday, August 15, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
had warned Egypt s t r•n g I y
A former member of the Jordan-
Israeli sources expected another
against any escalation a the
ian senate living in Hebron was
American attempt at intervention
Middle East conflict into a full- deported to Jordan Monday on or-
although they thought the U.S.
scale war. There was no con-
should be skeptical of Jordanian
ders from the military governor
firmation from Arab capitals. Al of the Judaea and Samaria dis-
promises.
Ahram,
seta-official
Cairo
daily,
tricts. The - deportee, Rashid el
(In an address at Haifa Univer-
reported that President Nasser
Khatib Tamimi, 60, was charged
sity Tuesday, Mrs. Meir warned
was considering a new Arab with having maintained frequent
Lebanon that it would be held re-
summit conference to consider
contact with Arab terrorist organi-
sponsible for attacks on Israel by
the situation and the Arab reac-
zations and with participation in
guerrilla bands based on Lebanese
tion to the scheduled delivery
terrorist acts.
soil. Mrs. Meir said that "if Le-
by the United States of the F-4
He was sent to Jordan by way of
banese authorities could not deal
Phantom supersonic fighter
the
Allenby bridge. Tamimi is a
with them, we shall have to." She
planes to IsraeL
brother of Anwar el Khatib, the
said Israel's airstrike Monday was
(In Washington, State Depart- former mayor of East Jerusalem.
aimed at guerrilla bases, not at
ment sources said that it was un- His son was arrested a month ago
Lebanon's people.
likely that the Soviet-American for transporting arms in his car
Mrs. Meir said Israel was not
bilateral talks on the Arab-Israeli near Hebron.
trying to escalate fighting along its
conflict could be resumed before
frontier. She claimed that Sunday's
next month. Assistant Secretary U Thant Asks Israel, Egypt
air attack on Jordanian targets
of State Joseph Sisco, who has been to Take Measures to Protect
was intended to "cool" the border.
conducting the talks with Ambas- UN Observers on Suez Canal
"Maybe that Israel action and the
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
sador Anatoly Dobrynin, was to
fact that the water is not running
leave on a short vacation. Ambas- Secretary-General U Thant has
where it used to will cool the
sador Dobrynin is still in the So- asked Israel and Egypt to agree
escalation," she said.
to four measures for the protection
Israeli sources said that the viet Union, reportedly on sick of United Nations cease-fire ob-
leave. Sen. Charles Goodell, New
blasting of the Ghor canal was
York Republican, will go to Israel servers along the Suez Canal. The
"poetic justice" since it was
Aug. 19 for a nine-day visit to measures, based mainly on recom-
Arab snipers in the early '50s
study the situation there and make mendations from Lt. Gen. Odd Bull,
who prevented Israel from car-
proposals regarding United States head of the ceasefire observation
rying out its original national ir-
policy, it was announced. Sen. organization, had been discussed
rigation project by firing on
Goodell will be accompanied by by representatives of the seven
workers near the /Snot Yaccov
Prof. D. Rustow, of Columbia nations supplying the observers be-
bridge. They noted further that
University and Prof. John Peretz fore they were communicated to
Jordan, Lebanon and Syria had
of New York State University, Israel and Egypt.
collaborated in a project to di- Binghamton.)
Thant asked both countries to
vert the headwaters of the Jor-
Life sentences were pronounced agree to permit a UN patrol boat
dan River in order to deprive
on six El Fatah guerrillas convicted to ply waters of the Suez Canal
Israel of its rightful share of the of terrorist acts. The gang was and thus provide easier access to
waters.
captured near Nahal Gol Dotan in the UN observation posts. Neither
Now, they said. Jordan is suffer - the Jordan Valley May 4 after a country has agreed to the use of
ing the loss of the Ghor canal wa- chase by an Israeli army patrol. the waters by the other and neither
ters and Israeli forces have also One was killed and four of the is believed willing to accord this
damaged the main water canal group were charged with blowing right to the UN personnel.
that brings water from the Nile to up a railway line on the Gaza Strip
A second measure asked by
of
Port Said and other Egyptian and throwing hand grenades in
Thant was establishment
"safe perimeters" around the
towns in the Suez Canal zone.
Hebron. All of the accused were
observation posts. Israel has
A military spokesman said the un000perative at their trial and
ex-
Beisan Valley area was quiet for pressed regret that they could not
largely observed this in practice
and has not stationed guns or
the second consecutive day follow- complete their sabotage missions.
garrisons near the posts on the
ing Sunday's raid. He said the Bei- The prosecutor did not request
east bank but the Eevptians have
san Valley settlements had passed capital punishment.
placed batteries relatively close
twn quiet nights for the first time
Two El Fatah saboteurs were
to the observation posts the
in weeks.
sentenced to life imprisonment
hope that the Israelis would not
Cairo radio reported that Israeli
by a military tribunal in Jenia
return their fire for fear of
and Egyptian forces exchanged
Tuesday. Another military tribu-
hitting the UN pests.
heavy artillery fire along the Suez
nal sitting in Nablus imposed
The third proposal was for the
Canal for three hours Monday.
sentences of 20 and 15 years re-
strengthening
of the UN posts and
In other developments, eight
spectively on two members of a making them safer. The Israelis
Israelis were injured Monday
"Black Hand" gang which ter-
have said that they were will ing
morning when a hand grenade
rorizes Arabs suspected of col-
to build stronger posts for the UN
was thrown into a passenger-
laboratiag with Israeli authori-
observers on their side of the canal
carrying truck in Hebron. A cur-
ties.
but Egyptian gunners have pre-
few was imposed on the town
The El Fatah members, one . vented the Israelis from carrying
immediately after the incident.
from Hebron and the other from out the necessary construction
Four of the injured were hospi.
Tulkarem, belonged to a gang cap- work.
talized but only one of them was
tured in a skirmish with an Israeli
The fourth measure called for by
reported to be seriously hurt.
patrol recently. Two others were Thant was the end of the exclu-
Two Arab saboteurs were killed
killed in the exchange of fire. The sively Egyptian practice of sniping
Sunday night in an encounter •vith "Black Hand" members were
an Israeli patrol near the Abd:11r.h found in possession of firearms and at the UN observation posts.
Gen. Bull was to hold meet-
bridge in the southern Jordan 'Val- a mimeograph machine which they
ley. The patrol suffered no casual- used to print inflammatory pam- , ings with both the Israelis and
Egyptians in an effort to secure
ties.
phlets.
their agreement to these measures.
A heavy artillery duel developed
between Israeli and Jordanian
forces Wednesday in the southern
Jordan Valley just north of the ,
Dead Sea.
A military spokesman said the
shelling was started by the Jordan-
ians who opened Fire with tank I
cannon near the Abdallah Bridge!
TI -111;
and later brought in artillery. Sev- ,
eral rockets, apparently from a
Katyusha launcher on Lebanese
territory, exploded in the fields
around Kiryat Shemona and Kfar
Yuval in upper Galilee shortly
after midnight Wednesday.
The rocket barrage sent set-
tlers into bomb shelters. No cas-
ualties or damage was reported.
Israeli units returned the fire.
Three Israeli soldiers were
from Sept. 10 to Oct.
wounded in the Suez Canal zone
Tuesday, one by an Egyptian
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