Israel Retaliating Against Arab Incursions

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Their nomal complement was 250
officers and ratings but it was not
known how many were aboard at
the time of the sinking. Cairo de-
nied that the destroyer was sunk
but admitted it was hit and that
there were casualties among its
crew.)
The Israeli fishing boat Orith
was reportedly trawling off the
Bardawill lagoon on the northern
Sinai coast when it was hit by an
Egyptian missile. Her captain,
Adam Yashar, was killed instantly
and her engineer, Segal Acker-
mann, was wounded but managed
to abandon ship with two other
crewmen, Oded Kopenik and Boaz
Itzhak. They clung to wreckage
but Ackermann died during the
night. The two others managed to
swim to the sand spit that encloses
the lagoon. They were picked up
in the morning by Arab fishermen
who landed them at Nahal Yam,
an Israeli settlement in northern
Sinai. They were flown to a hospi-
tal in Beersheba where they were
reported in excellent condition
Israeli defense forces will main-
tain constant vigilance over Israeli
fishing boats operating in danger-
ous waters, it was disclosed in the
aftermath of the sinking of the
Orith. All fishing boats have been
given new instructions concerning
communications and identification.
The instructions are to be followed
whenever the boats enter potential
danger zones such as the watres of
northern Sinai. The area is rich
in fish but has been abandoned by
Egyptian fishermen fearing cap-
ture by Israelis.
Israel claimed that its forces

repulsed an Egyptian commando
raid across the southern section
of the Suez Canal at dawn Tues-
day killing at least seven of the
estimated 15 Egyptian raiders.
A military spokesman said Is-
raeli air force jets, artillery and
tank guns went into action
against Egyptian artillery on the
West Bank of the canal when the
latter opened fire to cover the
commandos' retreat. No Israeli
casualties were reported. Cairo
claimed that its commandos de-
stroyed several Israeli positions
and inflicted heavy casualties
and damage.
According to the Israeli report,
six Egyptian raiders were killed
by Israeli fire almost immediately
after they landed on the water-
way's East Bank. The body of a
seventh was seen floating on the
canal. A military spokesman said
Israeli counterfire was believed
to have inflicted much heavier
casualties on Egyptian forces on
the West Bank.
Israel air force jets continued
their methodical pounding of Egyp-
tian positions in the canal zone
Monday night and Tuesday morn-
ing to prevent the construction of
SAM-3 missile sites. According to
a military spokesman, the war-
planes ranged some 30 kilometers
west of the canal to strike Egypt's
in-depth defenses. They also bat-
tered the central and southern sec-
tors of the canal zone for two and
a half hours Tuesday morning. All
planes returned safely to their
bases.
A military spokesman said that
Israel's aerial sorties during the
past few days have encountered

no SAM-3 missile sites or enemy
aircraft piloted by Russians. The
Israeli jets have confined their
operations to the canal zone and
a middle corridor lying between
the canal and central Egypt. For-
eign ministry officials said they
had no knowledge of reports that
Israel has warned the big powers
that it would do everything in its
power to prevent Egypt from
strengthening its Suez Canal de-
fenses even if it meant hitting So-
viet personnel and equipment in
the canal zone.
Israel admitted that several hun-
dred guerrillas have returned to
so-called "Fatah Land" in south-
eastern Lebanon, the scene of Is-
rael's 32-hour armed incursion of
May 12-13. The guerrillas returned
after Israeli forces withdrew. The
admission was an acknowledge-
ment that the Israeli expedition
was of a punitive nature rather
than a decisive clean-out of guer-
rilla bases. Chief of Staff Gen.
Haim Bar-Lev indicated as much
last week when he said the feda-
yeen could not be cleared out in
a single operation. The main pur-
pose of the expedition was appar-
ently to 1z:isletMorale in Israeli
border s ements and to warn
Beirut aTthorities to curb guerrilla
activities from Lebanese soil.
Military sources said Israel re-
gards Al Saiqa units in Lebanon
as "part and parcel of the Syrian
army." Al Saiqa is a small feda-
yeen group based in Syria which
has joined the much larger El
Fatah in incursions against Israel.
Five Lebanese taken prisoner in
the May 12-13 Israeli raid were re-
leased and handed over to Leba-

nese authorities at Ras el Naqura.
They included two policemen and a
journalist sent by his Beirut news-
paper to cover the fighting. The
latter said he was treated well by
the Israelis. The other freed prison-
ers were a farmer and a student
who want home with a new pair
of shoes given him by Israeli jail-
ers to replace his torn pair.
Israeli officials say that so far
no Soviet SAM-3 missiles have
been fired at Israeli warplanes
over Egypt nor have Israeli
pilots encountered Russian-man-
ned Egyptian MIGs.
(Diplomatic sources in Eastern
Europe said Moscow is committed
"to the hilt" to the defense of
Egypt. If those defenses are in
danger of collapsing, Russia may
"broaden" the radius of their
direct intervention if they consider
it necessary.
(This was taken to mean that in
an extreme situation the Soviets
would extend direct military sup-
port to Egypt close to or within
the Suez Canal zone. So far the
Russians have kept out of the for-
ward zone and have limited them-
selves to setting up a defense sys-

tern for such key targets as Alex-
andria, Cairo and the Aswan High
Darn. Israel has at the same time
suspended its deep penetration air
raids over Egypt which had pre-
viously hit targets near Cairo and
in the Nile Delta.)
(Current issues of Aviation Week
and Space Technology reveal that
Wheelus Air Base in Libya is be-
ing transformed into a master air
training center for Egyptians and
Libyans and for rear-basing Egyp-
tian MIG-21 interceptors. Aviation
Week also states that Israel has re-
engined a Mirage 3CJ with the
General Electric 379 engine.)

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sortie in Lebanon. One of them is holding a photo of Egyptian Presi-
dent Nasser which they found in the terrorists' camp. In the lower
photo are shown the rocket launchers that were found in the terror-
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