Syrian Border Heats Up: 148 Acts of Aggression in 1970
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
The Lebanese ambassador to Egypt March 12 after a six-day
Israel has complained to the
the United Nations has ques- lull. Israeli jets blasted targets
Security Council that "armed at- tioned the authenticity of Israeli along the Suez Canal and 16 miles
tacks perpetrated from Syrian
reports of incidents along Leba- west of the waterway in a series of
territory by regular and irregular
nese-Israel border in violation raids beginning in the morning and
forces in violation of the cease of the cease fire. Ambassador lasting through most of the after-
fire have again been intensified in
Edouard Ghorra said, "I have noon. Egyptian jets staged several
recent days, causing loss of life not made a count myself but I attacks on Israeli positions along
and damage."
have strong doubts about the the canal and lost a Russian-made
number of these incidents."
Sukhoi-7 bomber to Israeli anti-
In a letter to the council presi-
dent, Dr. Joaquin Vallejo Arbelaez
He said, on the other hand, that aircraft gunners.
of Colombia, Israeli Ambassador at least 25 attacks have been made
All Israeli planes returned safe-
Yosef Tekoah charged that since by Israel against Lebanese. civil- ly to their bases. The body of the
the beginning of this year, there ians resulting in more than 56 Egyptian pilot was found in the
have been 148 Syrian acts of ag- casualties. Ambassador Ghorra wreckage of the Sukhoi. Ground
gression. He said mortars were ' stated his views in an interview warfare also escalated in the Suez
used in 34 attacks, Katyusha with Moses Schorifeld, UN corre- Canal zone and in the Golan
rockets in three, artillery and spondent of the Fairchild Broad- Heights.
tanks in nine and bazookas in 46. casting News Service. The inter-
Israeli security services have
There were also, he said, 27 view was broadcast over WVOX, a broken up two terrorist cells,
small-arms assaults, 11 mining New York radio station. His state- one in Bethlehem and the other
raids, eight sabotage incursions, ment was not a direct answer to in Hebron, it was disclosed
two penetrations of air space and Tekoah's letter but a general
Tuesday.
eight armed clashes. He noted that rebuttal to Israel's charges.
The Hebron cell was well estab-
in the last four days, these attacks
The Lebanese envoy said most lished. Its 13 members were dis-
had resulted in the deaths of four of the border incidents were covered in hideouts in east Jerusa-
Israeli soldiers and the wounding attributed to people Israel claims lem and have confessed to attacks
of 13.
come from Lebanon. We don't on vehicles in the Hebron area.
The Israeli envoy asserted that know the magnitude of these inci-
Two American tourists were
dents. I can cite hundreds of
- Syrian regular armed forces par-
killed in bus ambUshes near
ticipated directly in a consider- incidents but I have no interna- Hebron during the past three
able number of these acts of tional authority to check on my months.
aggression, including military am- claims."
The Bethlehem ring was uncov-
A high-ranking Israeli army
bushes." He stated that "this
ered before any of its 37 members
warfare is pursued in accordance officer told newsmen that could carry out any action.
Israel's response to guerrilla
with the openly proclaimed Syrian
Twenty-eight Gaza high school
; infiltration across the Lebanon
policy of aggression."
students were arrested Monday
He declared that "in view of border was being held in abey- after they were caught with hand
ance
while
fortification
and
these incessant attacks in flagrant
other security arrangements grenades in their possession and
violation of the cease fire, Israel
leaflets urging terrorist activities
is compelled to take self-defense were being made at Israeli against Israel.
measures to protect itself against border settlements.
Two members of the Popular
He said the protective measures
Syrian aggression."
Front for the Liberation of Pale-
Israel did not ask for Security would give Israeli forces greater stine were arrested in Gaza over
Council action on this complaint, freedom to maneuver and would the weekend on charges of throw-
but did ask that its letter be cir- provide time for Lebanese author- ing hand grenades at buses and
culated to all members of the ities to curb the guerrillas.
cars.
The officer said that recent mili-
council.
Twenty-two Gaza Strip Arabs
Israel Air Force pets carried tary forays into Lebanon were
were injured when a grenade
out morning and afternoon at- only "token" responses to guer- exploded in the middle of a
tacks on Egptian positions in rilla asaults on Israeli settlements. crowd waiting for buses to take
the Suez Canal zone Monday and He indicated that Israel could
them to jobs in Israel this week.
shot down one Egyptian MIG-21 easily take far stronger measures
Most of the injured were hos-
in a dogfight west of the canal. that would force Lebanese civil-
pitalized as security forces
ians
to
evacuate
the
border
areas,
A second Egyptian MIG was hit
searched the area for the gre.
but was not seen to crash. All turning them into a "no-man's trade throwers. Israeli officials
the
Jor-
land"
such
as
exists
on
Israeli planes returned safely.
. acknowledged that the attack
Three Israeli commando forces danian side of the cease-fire
was the most serious so far
plunged into Syria Sunday night lines.
"We want to protect our settle- against Arab civilians.
and Monday morning to smash
It was the first time terrorists
ments, so we're not nervous and
military targets and an 80-foot
don't take measures we will re- !threw a grenade into a large
high steel pylon carrying electric
gret" the officer told newsmen crowd. Up to now they have at-
current to Damascus.
tacked buses carrying workers to
touring the border region.
One of the targets was an army
Israeli border police skirm- and from Israel in an effort to
training camp and command base ished with a guerrilla gang that prevent Arabs from accepting
at Kteifa village, 20 miles north- attacked a police post at Nebi work there.
east of Damascus and about 55 Yousha in Upper Galilee, less than
Six saboteurs from Jordan were
miles behind the Israel-Syrian three miles from the Lebanese sentenced to prison terms of 10-20
cease-fire lines.
border, Monday night.
years by a Ramallah military
It was the deepest penetration
The guerrillas fired bazookas at tribunal last week after they were
of Syria by Israeli forces since the the building but were driven off found guilty of armed infiltration
June 1967 war. A military spokes- by the police. There were no cas- into Israel-held territory.
man said all Israeli commandos ualties or damage on the Israeli
The saboteurs said they belonged
returned safely to their bases.
side.
to the Popular Front for the Lib-
An explosion wrecked a pump- eration of Palestine. During their
The Israeli commando raids in
Syria represented the first re- ing house at a training farm in trial they said that rival terrorist
sponse to the recent escalation of the Gaza Strip last night. Israeli organizations based in Jordan were
fighting along the Syrian cease- security forces demolished two competing for recruits. They said
fire line. Israeli officials have at- buildings on the outskirts of Gaza each group was trying to outbid
tributed the escalation to a high that were used by terrorists as the other for new members.
level policy decision by the Da- shelters. An Israeli patrol was at-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Deputy
mascus government, not incidental tacked from one of the buildings Prime Minister Yigal Allon re-
attacks by guerrilla bands. Damas- several days ago.
sponded
to urgings from abroad
An Israeli soldier was killed by
cus radio reported five Syrian
for restraint in dealing with the
soldiers killed and 14 wounded in Egyptian mortar fire in the south- Lebanese guerrilla situation by
ern section of the Suez Canal Zone
the shelling of the army camp.
affirming that Israel could not
Syria said the pylon carrying Monday night.
jeopardize its security despite the
60,000 volt high tension wires was
Israeli forces shelled guer- relations between Lebanon and the
bombed from the air. Israel said
slopes United States and France.
it was destroyed by ground forces. rilla concentrations on the
of Mt. Hermon in Lebanon, west
He said in a radio interview
During the early morning raid,
of the Hasbani River Monday. that the Lebanese authorities had
Israeli commandos destroyed a
About six shells were fired from to take effective measures to curb
culvert and a pill box on a road
Lebanese territory into Israel terrorist activities from bases on
just to the rear of Syrian forces
without causing Casualties or Lebanese territory. -He expressed
facing the Golan Heights.
confidence that the world, and
damage.
A military spokesman disclosed
An Israeli soldier, Corp. Gideon especially Israel's friends, would
that the commandos reached their Ratnowski, 22, of Rishon LeZion, understand that Israel could not
targets by helicopter—presumably was killed by Egyptian gunfire remain inactive when her security
the giant French-built super-Fre- in the southern section of the Suez was threatened.
Lon. He said they encountered Canal zone Sunday night. A mili-
The deputy premier said that
some anti-aircraft fire but no hits tary spokesman said the air raids
the Israeli strike against the
were scored. He said extreme care in the canal zone were concen- early March 7
should be taken
was exercised in the attack on the trated in the central sector.
early Saturday should be taken
Kteifa Army camp to make sure
A dogfight ensued when a flight
as a warning by the Lebanese
that no shells landed in the nearby of MIG-21s, Egypt's first line in-
government that Israel's warn-
civilian village.
terceptors, rose to attack Israeli
ings were not idle words. Gen.
jets
on
a
reconnaisance
mission
Alton referred to the attack by
According to, accounts of the
a small infantry unit on the vil-
action the Syrians were taken by about 20 miles west of the Suez
lage 24 hours after an Israeli
surprise. Their camp was well Canal. The pilot of the downed
,
soldier had been killed in an am-
lighted and was blacked out only MIG was seen bailing out.
Air warfare erupted anew ever bush and three others wounded
after the attack was in progress.
turn for 73 former residents of
the northern Sinai and Gaza Strip.
The exchange was carried out at
Kantara under Red Cross auspices.
near Shetula, directly opposite
Aita es Shab.
The raiding party warned the
villagers not to resist and to re-
main in their homes. Five build-
ings which had been used by the
terrorists were blown up. An Arab
sniper who opened fire on the Is-
raelis was killed. The suspected
terrorists were taken prisoner and
brought back to Israel for interro-
gation.
Beirut meanwhile seemed to be
heading for a new showdown with
Palestinian guerrilla bands on its
territory and the guerrillas them-
selves were split into radical and
more moderate camps.' Terrorist
activities along the Lebanese bor-
der have spread from the eastern
part of the frontier to the ', sensi-
tive western coastal region.
Alarmed Beirut authorities have
requested support from the four
major powers—United States, So-
viet Russia. Britain and France.
They have also reportedly demand-
ed that the guerrillas adhere to
an agreement reached in Cairo
last Nov. 6 between the Lebanese
military commander, Gen, Emil
Bustany, and Yasser Arafat, chief
of El Fatah •
The agreement permitted guer-
rillas to use certain infiltration
routes into Israel from Lebanon
but forbade them from firing on
Israel from Lebanese' territory.
These terms are reportedly ob-
served by El Fatah but not by the
adherents of the smaller, more
radical guerrilla groups such as
the Popular Front for the Libera-
tion of Palestine and the Syrian-
sponsored Al Saiqa. Defense Min-
ister Moshe Dayan admitted in
reply to questions in the Knesset
that Israeli bombers used napalm
in raids on Egypt "when circum-
stances so require." But he denied
that napalm was used in last
month's raid on a civilian metal
factory at Abu Zabal, an attack
which Israelis have said was made
in - error.
Gen. Dayan said the burns suf-
fered by some of the victims of
the Abu Zabal bombing may have
been caused by molten metal.
Israeli authorities returned 63
Egyptian citizens to Egypt in re-
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