Israelis Repulse Egyptian Commandos,,
Blow Up Guerrilla Building s in Lebanon

Israel said Sunday that its forces
repulsed a large-scale Egyptian
commando attack under cover of
a heavy artillery barrage across
the Suez Canal. Other Israeli
forces raided two Lebanese border
villages Saturday and blew up 20
buildings which had been used by
Arab guerrillas responsible for re-
cent attacks in Israel.

An Israeli military spokesman
said that two Israeli soldiers were
killed in the canal zone fighting
and that five Egyptian soldiers
were killed in the landing attempt
and three "tVi;re wounded, one of
whom died later in a hospital.

Egyptian casualties were con-
siderably higlier, however, and a
number of bodies were believed to
be still floating. Israeli jets later
carried out a punitive raid on
Egyptian positions on the western
shores of the Gulf of Suez.
Israeli air force jets attacked
Egyptian targets on the Gulf of
Suez again Tuesday:
They also struck at guerrilla
bases inside Jordan following the
mortar and rocket bombardment
of five settlements in the Beisan
Valley and Upper Galilee. A
military spokesman said the
planes on both missions all re-
turned safely to their bases.
The Jordanian target was die
village of Suneh. The jets wept
into actinn after Katyusha rockets
and mortar shells pounded Neve
Urr, Gesher and Ashdod Yaacov
in the Beisan area and Menahemia
and Yavneel, further north. There
were no casualties and damage
was reported to be slight.
Israeli fighters and anti-air-
craft guns downed three Egyp-
tian MIGs in what was described
as a fierce Egyptian air attack
on Israeli positions on the east
bank of the Suez Canal at sun-
down Monday. A military spokes-
man said that 20 Egyptian planes
including MIG-17s and NIIG-21s
participat-d in the attack which
sent ISracli F't fighters into the
evening skies.
According to the spokesman, the
three Egyptian planes were
knocked out within minutes after
the attack began. Israeli fighters
were credited with two MIG-21s
and anti-aircraft gunners got a
MIG-17. All Israeli planes returned
safely to their bases and no cas-
ualties were suffered on the Israeli
side. The spokesman said two
Egyptian pilots were seen bailing
out over Egyptian territory.
The battle brought to 54 the
number of Egyptian planes Israel
says it has downed since the 1967
o ar. The last major air battle
occurred on Sept. 11 when Israel
said it shot down 11 jets and lost
one Mirage of its own.
Israel announced that 14 soldiers
were wounded in fighting in the
Suez Canal zone Monday. Four of
them were victims of the Egyptian
air attack.
The others were injured in a
heavy artillery bombardment that
rollowed the apparently unsuccess-
ful air assault. According to an
Israeli spokesman, the Egyptians
sent MIG17s to drop bombs and
napalm on Israeli positicins on the
eastern bank of the canal while
NITG21 fighters provided cover and
engaged Israeli jets in dogfights.

Israel reported Oct. 2 that its
air force struck twice at targets
in Egypt and once at targets in
Jordan but denied an Egyptian
claim, the second in five days.
of a major commando assault
against Israeli positions on the
Sinai peninsula.

An Israeli military spokesman
said targets of the first attack
were Egyptian installations on the
western shores of the Gulf of Suez.
The second attack was on Egyp-

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

war. Ile remained in office after
tian positions in the Suez Canal
the Israeli occupation as did
zone. The spokesman said Israeli
most West Bank mayors. But he
jets also struck at Jordanian posi-
was detained several times in
tions opposite Ashdod Yaacov set-
the past year and warned to de-
tlement which came under fire
sist from cooperating with sub-
from Jordanian territory Oct. 1.
versive elements. Ile was taken
All Israeli planes returned safely
into custody again last Friday on
from their missions, he said.
suspicion of security violations.
Arab guerrillas staged a series
No specific charges were an-
of hit and run sabotage raids in-
nounced.
side Israel Oct. 1. Their targets
A military government spokes-
were the Eilat-Haifa oil pipeline
man said he was implicated in
which was damaged near Hedera,
' recent strikes by Ramallah mer-
south of Haifa; a railway line
chants and pupils and had incited
between Zichron Yaacov and Bin-
demonstrations against Israeli au-
yamina; and water installations at
, thorities. Sources here said his de-
Beth Shlomo and Kfar Hassidim.
' portation may lead to demonstra-
Israeli forces blew up two houses tions of sympathy in the town.
belonging to Arab terrorists Mon-
Four other Arabs deported on
day and sealed off a third. The orders of the military governor,
houses demolished were located in Brig. Gen. Rafael Vardi, were
Nablus and in Halhul Village, near from Dir Abu Mashal village in
Hebron. A house in Nablus was the Ramallah district where an
spared. Its owner, Mahmoud el Israeli soldier was shot at last
Alfy, was arrested two weeks ago. week. Three are local mukhtars
Police and security forces con- (headmen). Two other deportees
tinued to search Tuesday for the from Ramallah were the headmas-
terrorists who planted a bomb in ter and a teacher in a school where
the Israeli market town of Affuleh pupils rioted recently. They were
in the Jezreel Valley Monday. An charged with incitement.
elderly man was killed, and 28
persons were injured, eight of
them seriously. The bomb, which
police said weighed 8-10 pounds,
went off under a fruit and vegeta-
ble stand among throngs of Israeli
and Arab shoppers. Scores of
Arabs have been detained for ques-
tioning. Deputy Premier Yigal Al-
ton visited Affuleh Monday and
promised that stricter measures
would be taken to curb acts of
terror. He did not elaborate on the
nature of the measures.
Israeli security authorities gird-
ed for possible trouble in the Ra-
mallah area following the deporta-
tion of that town's popular mayor,
Nadim Zaro, and six other Arabs
from Ramallah and nearby West
Bank villages for alleged coopera
tion with terrorists and incitement
of civil disorder. Three Arabs
from Herbon were also deported
on similar charges. All crossed
into Jordan via the Allenby and
Damiya bridges.

Mayor Zaro, 38, ran a phar-
macy in Ramallah, 10 miles
north of Jerusalem. He was ap-
pointed to his post by King Hus-
sein of Jordan before the 1967

in May, are Judge Theodore Tan-

gnawing role in Israeli affairs dur-
ing a week-long series of consulta-
1 twos in Israel. With Hoffman, who
ti
is visiting Isra
ent
on as
president
since his election
for AJC
the first

ecutive vice president; Zachariah
Shuster, European director, and
Dr. M. Bernard Resnikoff, human
relations director at the commit-
tee's Israel office.

nenwald Jr., chairman of the Israel

Committee; Betram H. Gold, ex.

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French Attitude
Seen Changing

PARIS, (JTA)—A Gaullist deputy
said France's "general attitude to-
ward Israel has changed favorably
in recent months" and hinted that
there might be a partial lifting of
the arms embargo imposed on Is-
rael by former President Charles
de Gaulle.
Jean Mercier said at a meeting
of the French Committee for Soli-
darity with Israel that "certain
important negotiations have started
between France and Israel con-
, cerning spare parts" and their out-
' come was "very hopeful." He
' added, however, that within the
past year France has "taken cer-
tain options within the Arab world
which she will be unable to shake
off."
Others attending the meeting
were Michel Poniatovvsky, secre-
tary general of the Independent
Republican Party, the govern.
ment's junior coalition partner,
and Sen. Jean Lacanuet, a former
presidential candidate. P o n i a-
towsky said it was regrettable that
the\ "exemplary factor" contained
in Gen. de Gaulle's embargo deci-
sion two years ago was not fol-
lowed by the Russians or anyone
else. For that reason "the French
government must now reconsider
its entire policy on the embargo
issue," he said. Sen. Lecanuet
warned of Soviet penetration in the
Mediterranean area and of the
dangers of an imposed settlement
in the Middle East.

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