23 Israelis Killed in Border, Sabotage Activity
TEL AVIV (.ITA)—The govern-
An army spokesman Monday de-
ment reported Minulay that 2*'
nied a Time magazine report that
raeli soldiers and one civilian w ere Israel is in possession of a Soviet
killed during November as a result
of enemy activities along the bor-
ders and cease-fire lines and the
activities of saboteurs.
Seventy-four Israelis were injur
ed. of whom 63 were soldiers. The
fatalities were slightly higher iti
November titan in October, when
18 were killed. But 125 Israglis
were injured in the latter month.
Sokho% -7 bomber in operative con-
dition and has allowed Western ex-
perts to inspect it. The spokesman
said there was 110 Sukhov aircraft
in flying condition in Israeli !iambi
and reports to that effect were
"completely false."
Two more Israeli Arabs were ar-
rested over the week end in a
round tip of saboteurs and we , e
The tally of border incidents fol charged, among other things, with
November showed. the Egyptian an attempt to assassinate Deputy
front to be . by far the most active. Premier Yigid Allon. '1'lle accused
There were 312 incidents there live near Kfar Saba. They were ap-
from Nov. 9 to '29. The Jordanian prehended along with other sus-
front reported 169 incidents tic peels who have been operating in
tween Nov. 16 and 29. There were an area chose to the former Israel-
only 10 incidents along the Leba- Jordan border.
The Israeli Arabs are accused of
nese and Syrian frontiers between
having - planted explosives at a Tel
Nov. 9 and 29.
Aviv bus stop which killed the own-
Israeli troop.
Helicopter-borne
supported by an artillery bar-
rage and air cover smashed a
major guerrilla encampment on
the southern slope of Mt. Her-
mon in Lebanon Wednesday.
The first strike across the Leba-
nese border since Sept. 5, it was
described as the heaviest yet. A
military spokesman said the Is-
raeli soldiers killed 12 guerrillas,
wounded "many others" and de-
stroyed huge quantities of supplies.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed.
The attack was mounted follow-
ing the ambush of an Israeli motor
er of a kiosk nearby and other ex-
plosives that damaged a railroad
line near Kfar Saba. They are also
accused of having placed explo-
sives near the rostrum in Itaanana
might be ups and downs and this
week saw one of the ups. but there
was no escalation."
Other sources here said Mon-
day that no Russian-made 311G-
23s flown by Egyptians have
been seen in the skies so far.
The plane is Russia's newest
interceptor. The same sources
said that the Egyptians have
not yet received the new Soviet
T-62 tanks, but Cairo is on the
verge of receiving a Russian-
made ground-to-ground missile
with a 50-mile range.
They said the missiles would
have been dangerous had EgYPI
received them in 1967 and set them
up in the Gaza Strip in easy range
Of Tel Aviv. Under the present cir-
cumstance, they pose no danger to
populated areas of Israel, the
sources said.
on the Egyptian
terrorist activities has created
mounting .concern in Israeli cir-
cles.
The attorney-general is consid-
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Guerrillas Being Trained
in Red China, Arab Reveals
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The training
in Red China of at least 400 El
Fatah guerrillas was disclosed to
where Allon was scheduled to a Nablus military court Tuesday
speak during the recent election by the former commander of the
ca mpaign.
guerrilla base at Karameh, Jordan.
The prisoner, Muhammed Oth-
- The growing number of Israeli
mann el Haj Nimmer Abdallah,
Arabs involved in sabotage and
was sentenced to life imprison-
convoy in the northern Golan ering a change of policy that
Three would make Israeli Arabs accused
Heights Tuesday night.
buses and a pickup truck were at- of sabotage liable to trial by mili-
tacked with bazookas and small tary rather than civilian courts
arms. A bus driver and an Israeli Proposals have already been ma:le
to reimpose military government
soldier were wounded.
Israel Air Force jets hit tar- on the Arab areas of Israel. This
was rejected last week by Alton.
gets in Egypt and in Jordan
He said generalizations were dan-
Monday morning and returned
gerous
and that Israeli Arabs as a
safely to their bases. A military
whole were not involved with
spokesman said the attacks on
saboteurs and terrorists, only a
Egyptian positions and military
relatively few individuals who co-
installations on the west hank
operated with El Fatah.
of the Suez Canal lasted 10 min-
He said the authorities had the
utes. In Jordan, the Planes
struck at guerrilla bases follow- means and power to combat this
an
Israeli
pat-
on
an individual hasis without im-
ing an attack on
posing restrictions on the Arab
rol in the Beisan Valley.
Israeli circles said that the con- population of Israel,
tinuing air strikes against Egyp-
A large Egyptian raiding party
tian positions were aimed at fore- attacked Israeli positions on the
stalling possible Egyptian attempts east hank of the Suez Canal last
to mobilize for all-out war. They Saturday night. According to an
said the air attacks made it clear Israeli spokesman, they landed at
to Cairo that Israel retains super- about II p.m. local time under
iority in the air and that a con- cover of an artillery and mortar
frontation with Israeli forces under barrage but were quickly repulsed
those circumstances would be dis- and fled back across the canal
or
without inflicting - casualties
astrous for Egypt.
The Israeli circles . dismissed da 'n age.
Egyptian counter air raids on the
The spokesman said that two
Sinai as of negligible military
Egyptians were found dead on
value. They are on a small scale,
the Israeli hank of the waterway
involve few aircraft and are in-
and three more bodies were ob-
tended mainly to boost morale on
the home front. Egyptian troops
hit by Israeli air raids begin to
wonder where Egypt's air force
is and so Egypt is forced to mount
token attacks on Israeli positions
which so far have been unsuccess-
ful, the Israeli circles said.
A spokesman said that Saturday
night's Egyptian attack on Israeli
positions on the east hank of the
Suez Canal was not necessarily an
indication that Egypt was escalat-
ing its warfare. He said the Egyp-
tians were probing to find the most
effective ways of waging their war
of attrition against Israel. ""Theo e
ment at hard labor for his ac-
't com-
tivities as an El Fatah
mander on the west bank
The Egyptian version of the raid
He
told
the
court
that
he
muter-
differed from the Israeli account.
According to Cairo, 130 Egyptian went an extensive course in ',air:-
'soups occupied and held Israeli Cage in Bed China and that w h ile
positions on the canal's east bark he was there, at least 400 other EI
for two hours before withdrawing Fatah recruits were being trained
without casualties, Cairo claimed in guerrilla warfare and toughen-
that its raiders killed "a large ed by long marches over diffienli
number" of Israeli troops and that terrain. lie said the recruits
the latter suffered additional cas- ta ken by bus from Jordan to Bagh
ualties when. Israeli air force jets dad and then flown to Peking. 1J
mistakenly bombed and strati d was captured with four other sal)o
tears near Nablus.
their own men.
Two Egyptian planes, one a
MIG-21 and the other a Sukhov-7
bomber, wer shot down Nov. 27 as
they attacked Israeli positions
along the .Suez Canal's central sec-
tor. One Israeli soldier was injur-
ed. One plane was downed by an
Israeli jet, the other by antiair-
craft fire.
served later
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