Gang of Saboteurs Netted in Bombing of Haifa Buildings

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli secu- grenades at busses filled with of the heaviest bh ∎ ws delivered
against Egypt since the Six-Day
rity forces have rounded up the sightseers.
War. He said all Israeli planes
gang of saboteurs responsible for
According to security officials.
bombing five apartment houses in they were also responsible for returned safely. The Israeli jets
Haifa last month in which two throwing a grenade at a bus in bombed and strafed Egyptian artil-
persons were killed. Police said Halhul and at a car in which the lery positions. tanks and military
that six Arab residents of Acre, military governor of Hebron was installation all along the 100-mile
a town across Haifa Bay, have riding. In addition, they planted waterway, he said.
confessed to the crime.
explosives at a fence around the
The attacks were heaviest on
In Acre Israeli police fought Israel Broadcasting Services head-
targets opposite Kantara north
mobs of Israeli youths who tried , quaraters in Jerusalem and at of the Great Bitter Lake, and
Sunday to storm the seaport town's Ilamashbir Ilamerkazi cooperative at El Ballah Island and Kirbit.
old walled Arab section. Showered stores there.
Pilots reported encountering anti-
by stones from Arab and Jewish
aircraft and even some small
The Acre Arabs were found in
youth, three policemen and four possession of pistols with silencers,
arms fire but said the Egyptian
civilians were injured.
tubes of tear gas, explosives and defenses were not concentrated.
They
reported scoring direct hits
Tension has mounted steadily detonators.
and setting many fires.
since the six Acre Arabs con-
An accelerated effort to track
fessed. Anger flamed among Jews down and arrest Arab i•aboteurs
A military spokesman said the
when a car carrying explosives began in Jerusalem laS`t Friday raid was in retaliation for an
blew up near here, killing two after a clash near Taibeh Village Egyptian artillery attack along the
Arabs. Some 40 Israelis were re- in which an Israeli border police- southern reaches of the canal in
ported arrested during three at- man was killed.
which three Israeli soldiers were
tempts to break into the Arab
Officials said that some Hebron wounded, one fatally. Cairo radio
sector since Saturday. Arab youths
and East Jerusalem terrorists acknowledge the Israeli attack
counter-attacked twice. Arabs and
turned out to be well-off Israeli but claimed that the planes were
Jews have lived peacefully side by
citizens and that one has a Jewish kept off target by Egyptian anti-
side here since 1948. Leaders of
wife. They were held responsible aircraft fire and dropped their
both communities issued urgent
for a series of grenade acts against bombs harmlessly.
appeals to both sides to keep cool.
crowded busses and planting of
Monday's Egyptian counter-raid
In several parts of town Arabs explosives near public buildings. hit between Kantara and Baloosa.
were set upon and beaten by Jews. Police said four terrorists had The injured civilian was working
Arabs were reportedly arming planted explosives at Kfar Saba at a quarry near the road when
themselves with stones and knives and other places in central Israel. he was hit by machine gun bullets
against an attack on their quarter. The clash at Taibeh followed the from a strafing plane. An Israeli
Four civilians and three policemen arrest of an Arab suspect who was spokesman said that no casualties
were injured in a stone-throwing found carrying a bayonet and a or damage were sustained by Is-
melee near the gates to the quar- grenade.
raeli military personnel or equip-
ter. A few Jewish youths were
ment.
Officials made no secret of
arrested for beating up Arabs. In
Three Egyptian commandos
one instance, a policeman trying their concern that many of the
arrested
terrorists
are
Israeli
were killed early Sunday in an
to arrest a Jewish youth was as-
Arabs.
That
concern
was
ap-
abortive
raid on an Israeli posi-
saulted by a Jewish mob.
parently shared by Arab elders
tion on the east bank of the
Israeli police battled a gang of
and
headmen
in
several
villages.
Suez Canal. A military spokes-
saboteurs in the West Bank town
Shmuel Toledano, adviser on
man said two Israelis were
of Jenin Monday, killing two of
Arab Knesset member, Diab
wounded when the Arabs am-
them while two others escaped.
Ottbed,
denouncing
terrorist ac-
bushed a patrol less than a mile
Two policemen were wounded in
tivities. He said Moslem trustee
inside Israel-held territory.
the skirmish with small arms and
committees in Haifa, Lydda and
hand grenades.
The commandos were driven
Jaffa passed resolutions con-
back across the waterway leaving
Police were led to Majdal Kurum
demning terrorist acts.
behind three dead, one of them an
after two terrorists who died in
Alert school children in Haifa officer, and several bazookas and
an explosion outside of Acre
foiled what was apparently another
Kalachnikof rifles. Three Israeli
were identified as residents of
terrorist attempt to blow up a
soldiers were wounded Sunday ,
that village. The two were killed
house on Mount Carmel. The during an artillery duel at the
when they stopped their car ab-
youngsters, spotting a suspicious southern
sector of the Canal.
ruptly for a red light, detonating
looking parcel near an apartment
the explosives they were carrying.
The Israeli version 'of Sunday's
building, told their teacher, who
Police said they were the same called police. A policeman dis- Suez Canal incident varied sharply
men who planted explosives at
mantled the parcel which con- from Cairo's announcement that
an apartment house in Haifa Sun- tained
two and a half kilograms the raiders had penetrated five
day.
of explosives and a timing device. miles into the Sinai Peninsula,
destroyed three Israeli tanks, dam-
Police arrested seven suspects
Israel's successful crackdown on
aged two others and killed an un-
in Majdal Kurum. All were de- terrorist
groups in recent days has
number of soldiers.
scribed as economically well-off
badly shaken
El Fatah. The specified
Egypt said three commandos were
Arabs who worked in Haifa or in
Palestinian guerrilla organization
"left behind." An Israeli military
Nahariya. One is a stone carver
broadcast a coded warning to its
spokesman termed the Egyptian
who makes gravestones for a Jew-
members over its Cairo Radio Sta- account "sheer fabrication."
ish cemetery near the village. Po-
tion Monday to take cover. The
lice tore up the floor of his home
The latest commando raid came
message said "Take care. Mother's
and discoved an array of firearms, condition
as Israeli authorities began a mas-
very grave."
high explosives, detonators and
sive crackdown on Arab terrorists
The message was addressed following
electric timing devices.
a bazooka attack Friday
to Mouhamed Iben. El-Kassem, on
a fuel oil depot in Haifa. Two
The terrorist ring at Majdal
the
code
name
of
the
El
Fatah
Kurum was believed to have been
saboteurs from the upper
leader in Israel. It was repeated Arab
Galilee were killed when their ex-
linked to the terrorist cell in Acre.
at short intervals.
plosive-laden car blew up on the
In another communique, secu-
Israeli police and security forces outskirts of Acre, near Haifa.
rity officials announced the capture
of two other terrorist gangs, one have rounded up terrorist rings in
An Israeli spokesman said two
not
only Acre and Hebron, but also
in East Jerusalem and one in
bazooka shells fired by a home-
Hebron. Twenty persons have been Majdal Kurum, Nablus, Jenin and made timing device started
surrounding Judaean Hills. Among
detained.
small fires in tanks containing
Two of the men apprehended those arrested in Jenin was a

in Haifa are drivers, two are

fishermen and one is a carpenter.
They are believed to have gotten
their explosives by boat, a meth-
od which is apparently still in
use. The Israel Navy disclosed
that it captured a boat load of
terrorists with high explosives
several days ago. Some were
Identified as former residents of
Israel and were apparently de.
livering explosives to a terrorist
cell in northern Israel.
The seizure of the boat led to the
round-up of the Haifa bombing
gang, a security official said. And
the confession of one of the latter,
a former resident of Halhul village
near Hebron, resulted in the ar-
rests in Hebron and East Jeru-
salem.
The West Bank gangs belonged
to El Fatah and another under-
ground group that calls itself the
"Popular Freedom Organization."
Large caches of arms were seized.
The terrorists were said to have
specialized in throwing hand

46—Friday, Noveather 28, 1969

former Jordanian intelligence of-
ficer who ran a ring that supplied

explosives to terrorists in Majdal
Kurum. He was found in pos-
session of a large quantity of
explosive bricks, bazookas and

machineguns. Another arms cache
discovered near Nablus yielded
bazookas, shells and hundreds of
hand grenades along with detona-
tors, rifles and revolver ammuni-
tion. The weapons were concealed
in the courtyard of the mukhtar
(headman) of Djunied, a village
said to be a recruiting head-
quarters for Israeli Arabs.
TEL AVIV (JTA -- Israel Air
Force jets carried out a four-hour
non-stop raid on Egyptian military
targets along the West bank of the
Suez Canal Sunday night. The
Egyptian Air Force retaliated with
a strike in northern Sinai in which
one Israeli civilian was slightly in-
jured and two civilian trucks were
damaged.
A military spokesman described
Sunday night's air raid as one

crude oil and kerosine. The fires
were extinguished before they
caused serious damage. El
Fatah claimed responsibility for
the sabotage.

under fire from Jordanian and
Syrian territory. Bazookas were
fired at Gesher and Iraqi artillery
went into action after Israeli
forces returned the bazooka fire.
Several shells exploded in Nahal
Golan. There were no Israeli
casualties in either action.

Israeli forces returned the
body of a slain Egyptian com-
mando in return for the body of
an Israeli Druze soldier who was
captured by the Egyptians in a
commando raid a week ago and
later died of his wounds. The
exchange, under the auspices of
the International Red Cross, was
delayed when the Egyptian fired
mortars at a Red Cross convoy.

The Jordanian government an-
nounced that it would bar entry
into Jordan to persons expelled
from the West Bank in order to
curtail what it called the "Judaiza-
tion" of the Israel-occupied ter-
ritories. There was no official re-
action here to the announcement
from Amman. But Israeli sources
denied Amman press reports of
mass deportations from the West
Bank.
They said that only four persons
have been deported across the!
Allenby bridge in recent weeks and
that none were former residents
of the West Bank. The Israeli
sources described the deportees as
terrorists and infiltrators from the
East Bank who were sent back
after serving prison terms in Is-
rael.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Abba Eban told the
United States and French am-
bassadors that their countries,
along with the other two Big Pow-
ers — Britain and the Soviet Union
— had complicated the Middle
East situation rather than im-
proved it.
Eban met separately with U.S.
Ambassador Walworth Barbour
and the French envoy, Francis
Hure, at the foreign minister's
initiative. Eban reportedly said
that the recent war like state-
ments by Egypt's President Gamal
Abdel Nasser and the forthcoming
Arab summit conference at Rabat,
Morocco were the inevitable out-
come of the Big Powers' attempts
to work out their own solution of
the Middle East conflict.
According to Eban, the Arabs
hoped that someone would ex-
tricate them from the position they -
found themselves in after the Six-
Day War. He said that hope was
bolstered by the Big Powers and
by assurances of continuing sup-
port from the Soviet Union which
expressed itself in material terms
by the build-up of Arab armed
forces.
Eban claimed that it should he
apparent to all that the Four Pow-
er and Two Power talks on the
Mid East had only complicated
matters. He said there can be no
solution unless the Arabs are
brought face to face with Israel
and accept and recognize her ex-
istence.

Two Marine Drill Instructors Accused
of Jew-Baiting Recruit Into Breakdown

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A New cause he is Jewish.
York Congressman charged this
The commandant of the United
week that a Jewish Marine Corps States Marine Corps, Gen. Leonard
recruit suffered a mental break- Chapman Jr., has ordered a formal
down as a result of brutal treat- investigation of the charges.
ment he received at the hands of
The investigation was requested
anti-Semitic drill instructors at the by the Jewish War Veterans of the
Parris Island, S.C., Marine train- U.S. after Congressman Biaggi
ing base.
brought the case to light.
Rep. Mario Biaggi, a Democrat,
The recruit, whose name was
told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency withheld at his mother's request,
that the youngster, who received a was discharged from the Marine
medical discharge from the Ma- Corps last July "for the conveni-
rine Corps last July, is now con- ence of the government," accord-
fined to the North Shore Mental ing to Rep. Biaggi.
Hospital in New York for psychia-
A Marine Corps spokesman said

tric treatment.
He said that Dr. Robert Hirsch
had verified that the recruit's
breakdown was precipitated by
anti-Semitism and beatings at
the hands of noncommissioned
officers. According to Rep.

Biaggi he was "treated like a

prisoner in a Nazi concentration
camp."
Drill instructors allegedly paint-
ed a Star of David on the youth's
forehead, struck him repeatedly on
the head and called him "Jew boy"
and "bagel."
Rep. Biaggi said that witnesses
in the same platoon confirmed that
the recruit was systematically

brutalized by drill instructors be-

Tuesday that the allegations would
be made known by the command-
ing general of the Parris island
base. He added "The commandant
does not condone nor will he tol-
erate maltreatment of any Marine,
whatever his status. Every case of
alleged maltreatment reported to
him is investigated, and approp-
riate action, including disciplinary
action where warranted, is taken."
Rep. Biaggi described the boy
as "a very sensitive young man of
marked intelligence" who had been
president of his high school student
council. Rep. Biaggi has previously
disclosed other episodes of alleged
racism at Parris Island involving
Negro and Puerto Rican recruits.

JDC Aids Israel Program for Aged

Shooting flared in the Beisan
area and the Golan Heights Nov.

19 and 20. An Israeli soldier was
wounded in the southern section of
the Suez Canal. A curfew was in
effect in the northern part of the
Gaza Strip after a series of at-
tacks on vehicles in which three
Israelis were injured.
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
warned Gaza Strip residents that
harsher measures would have to
be taken unless the escalation of
terrorism ceased. The curfew was
lifted in the twin towns of
Ramallah and El Birreh at the
request of the newly elected mayor
of Ramallah, Moussa Khalil. It
bad been imposed Nov. 16 after a
grenade was thrown at an Israeli
Army unit there.
A military spokesman said that
the area of Gesher in the Beisan
Valley and Nahal Golan in the
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS northern Golan Heights came

An attendant at one of the JDC-Malben homes makes an 110-year-
old imigrant comfortable. With the establishment of the Association
for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged, facilities
will be created for settled residents as well.