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I tionally recognized status and ores- release of 300
jailed in Israel in exchange for the of the Red Cross' influence and
Cage which they do not deserve
would lase force even if you Red
hostages and the plane. Less than neutrality, IRC circles said.
The IRC spokesman told the
Cross people were inside the
three hours after the agreement
plane, even if my daughter, my JTA that the move was prompted
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
was reached, they said. Israeli
"Israel's
by what he termed
children, were inside,” Daya ■
soldiers disguised as maintenance 10 — Friday, May 19, 1972
flagrant abuse of confidence
said be told the IRC men.
men, boarded the plane and opened
and "break of an oral agree-
fire on the terrorists. The circles
Some Israeli officials expressed
ment.•
claimed the terrorists agreed to
bitterness over the Red Cross role
The spokesman sharply rejected allow maintenance men aboard to
in last week's incident and alleged
that the IRC has consistently the JTA reporter's suggestion that recharge the plane's batteries and
shown bias in favor of the Pales- ; there might have been a misunder- bring food and water to the pas-
tinia.. terrorists. They claimed standing. "We had 100 per cent sengers. That process was part of
that the IRC's action did not spring reason to believe that force would . •'a definite and steadfast under-
from provisions of the Geneva not be used while negotiations were : taking given by Israeli military
Convention because the terrorists , still in progress and were on the I authorities to the Red Cross dele-
are not an internationally recog- point of succeeding, the spokes-
gates," they alleged.
nized resistance group. man said. lie claimed that Israeli
The IRC rarely takes a foreign
authorities, whom he did not name, government publicly to task and
The Israelis claimed that in pre
vious hijack instances abroad, the had assured the Red Cross repre-
deals worked out through the IRC sentatives at Lydda Airport that
invariably benefited the terrorists force was not contemplated.
They claimed that the IRC dele-
and that the Red Cross in fact
seemed to be trying to accord the gates and Dayan had reached an
Palestinian terrorists an interna- oral agreement providing for the
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usually prefers to act in a more
discreet manner, circles here said.
Its decision to protest formally to
Israel stems from what the IRE
considers an open breach of an
agreement which, if permitted to
Sosiet .1e.1% Share iii "key.% of Ilijack lle%eame
100 hostages at Lydda Airport. It was learned that Sabena has
Capt. Levy was profuse in his been urged by numerous persons
praise of Israeli authorities for the to institute more stringent security
way they foiled the hijackers Re- measures. Many have suggested
fore he left Israel, Capt. Levy that it follow the example of the
to-thank Israeli and Ethiopian airlines and
visited the Western Wall -
have armed guards on all civilian
the good Lord for my miraculous
, flights.
escape."
The fact that the terrorists
Mrs. Miriam lioltzberg was re-
were able to carry a reported
ported near death at Tel Hashom
12 kilos of explosives, hand gren-
Th e 22
er hospital Wednesday
ades and revolvers aboard the
year-old Israeli. wife of a Belgian.
was seriously wounded in the gun Plane without detection shows
that the security measures of
natt,e
certain airlines and at certain
A hospital bulletin said she bad
airports are grossly inadequate,
suffereda sudden acute drip in
the sources said. The sources
blood pressure and that there were
warned, however, that 'the game
disturbances in the functionin , of
is not over. The terrorists - lost
her brain. Doctors are still trying
this time, but they may not can-
to save her lite, but her chances
sider themselves beaten."
to survive are still considered slim,
Passengers arriving on a Sabena
according to hospital sources
An;:ther wound•.1 passenger, 55- flight from Brussels and Frankfurt
year old Wilfred Korciovsk. a last week reported that security
German Jess.-11 film producer, was checks in both those tu•u-- were
it..pt- rted to he recovering sausfac- tight but w ere lax at Vienna
tortly from the four bullet wounds "liere the Plane •-, i.. -
A TWA emlb.t tot tno' to-as ,ff
he sustained. Kordotsk was fired
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on by Israeli soldiers who nitstixik from
back
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Ile said the mistake was under-
moment
the
airport
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a
standable since at the
he was running after one of the itrecautIonar ■ maasure but atrInng
armed women terrorists, Hima ""` feu"
t' was learned ftat 2T, year ii:
Eisa, in an attempt to subdue
her.
by two of the soltler, at 'American Aliya to Israel
the hospital Kordovsk said "You
boys were wonderful. I have noth to Decline by 1,000 in
mg against you You did what you
TEL AVIV tZINS:—Aliya from
hail to do "
America will be somewhat smaller
Mrs Paula Hubin, another in - this year than in the previous
jured pas,enger, has been dis- year said Narkiss, director
charged from the hospital Theresa of the allya department of the
Balsa, the Acre-born terrorist Jewish Agenc.V.
WMInclecl in the battle was also re-
Narkiss expects approximately
covering after a series of blood 9,600 American ohm In 1972. as
transfusions and has been trans- compared with 10.000 the previous
ferred from Tel Hashornar to an- year. Ile noted there are more
other hospital ! problems in connection with this
Premier Gaston Eyskens said atiya than in the past such as the
at the weekly council of minis -
lin.th cost of housirg arel increas-
ter. meeting that the Belgian
mg cliff, !,Its in 1 ,1,
for cert.,' prnfe , . cm-
Losernment was at no time a
parts to Israeli actions that lin-
al-
Miss Eisa. the . only terrorist un-
hurt in the gun fight, is cooperat-
ing with Israeli authorities in their
investigation of the hijacking. Miss
Eisa, of Bethlehem. reportedly told
police that the slain hijack leader
was Ahrhad Await Missa. the same
man who hijacked an El Al jet to
Algeria on July 23, 1968.
general
The military attorney
was reported to he preparing cases
against Miss Elsa and her com-
panion. an Acre-born nurse. The
two are expected to be tried before
a military tribunal as soon as Miss
Balsa recovers from her wounds.
Miss Balsa claimed last Friday
that she wanted to convert to Juda-
ism. "I love Jews," she told in-
terrogators. "Even at the Fatah
camp they called me a 'Jew lover:
I had a blood transfusion and I
have Jewish blood in me so I want
to convert," she said.
She added that she and her com-
panions had no intention of blow-
ing up the plane. they wanted only
to scare the Israelis into -giving in
to their demand for freedom for
captured terrorists. "It was a great
show," she remarked. The terror-
ist added that the four had used
forget: Israeli passports to hoard
the Sabena jet.
Funeral services were held for
the two slain terrorists in Beirut
although their bodies are still in
Israel Several thousand men and
women marched behind empty cof-
fins draped with Palestinian flag,
An army source revealed that
the ruse that liberated the Sabena
jet was not devised at the spur of
the moment but was the result of
preparations that Israel's armed
forces have been making for a
long time to deal with Initick situ-
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TEL AVIV IJTA) — A cable . erated the
put its confidence
signed by four Leningrad Jews - and government
in the Israeli authorities and at
received by Chief of Staff David
no time was it aware of the in-
Elazar, expressed greetings and
tentions of the Israeli govern-
best wishes to all those who took
meat or military'," he said.
part in the "gallant and courage-
ous operation of freeing the hi- Eyskens expressed "astonish-
jacked plane. We are proud of the ment•' a n d "indignation" that
dedication and devotion of cur "certain persons accuse the Bel-
soldiers." gian government" of collusion with
In Brussels, a state prosecutor the Israeli authorities. He referred
said that airline security reguta- to accusations broadcast by the
tions were violated and a judicial Cairo-based El Fatah radio.
investigation will be launched into The Belgian premier said that
the hijacking of a Sabena jet by foreign affairs and communica-
four Palestinian terrorists. tions personnel were sent to Tel
Capt. Reginald Levy, pilot of the Aviv only' to help the passengers
jet, testified at a hearing that it, held hostage aboard the jet. lie
was the terrorists who opened fire. said the Belgian government re-
first when t8 Israeli paratroopers! mained neutral in the Middle East
men, conflict and endeavored to main-
disguised as maintenance
stormed the plane to liberate the lain good relations with both sides.
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