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Jerusalem (JTA) — Is-
raelis are wondering this
week whether they face a
new wave of terrorist at-
tacks within their own bor-
ders in the aftermath of the
bus hijack April 12 in which
a woman soldier was killed
and seven civilians
wounded.
The four terrorists who
seized the bus enroute from
Tel Aviv to Ashkelon in an
attempt to take -hostages
across the Egyptian border,
were killed by Israeli troops
who stormed the vehicle be-
fore dawn after its tires
were shot out in the Gaza
Strip.
The hijack was the fifth
major terrorist assault on
civilians inside Israel since
last December. Although
more serious casualties
were averted, tension is
running high. Security pre-
cautions for the Passover
holidays are especially
strict. Hundreds of addi-
tional policemen are on
duty and the volunteer civil
guard has also increased its
manpower. Cities and re-
sort areas have been put on
special alert.
Israel army engineers
systematically dynamited
the houses of the four dead
terrorists, all residents of
the Gaza=•Strip. Three had
lived in Beni Shuheila vil-
lage and .one in Abassan
near Khan Yunis. It has
long been standard practice
to demolish buildings where
terrorists lived or found
shelter.
The Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP), a terrorist group
headed by George Habash
who broke with the Pales-
tine Liberation Organiza-
tion in 1974, claimed credit
for the bus hijack. But Is-
raeli authorities insisted
that the terrorists were all
members of the mainstream
El Fatah, the PLO faction
still loyal to Yassir Arafat,
and in fact were acting on
Arafat's order.
Premier Yitzhak Shamir
said the terrorists were
making "a desperate at-
tempt to resume activity
after having lost control
over the terrorist theater in
Lebanon." Defense Minister
Moshe Arens observed that
the terrorists are "trying to
prove they still exist."
Chief of Staff Gen. Moshe
Levy hinted that the bus
hijackers had been trained
and armed on the West
Bank where there is consid-
erable support for the PLO
but not for Habash's PFLP.
The hijackers' had de-
manded the release of 500
imprisoned PLO terrorists
from Israeli jails in ex-
change for the bus
passengers, and safe pas-
sage for themselves into
Egypt.
(The hijack drew swift
condemnation from the
Reagan Administration. In
Washington, State De-
partment spokesman John
Hughes said: "The United
States condemns this
ton act of terrorism which
struck at innocent civilians.
We remain relentlessly op-
posed to terrorism wherever
it occurs, whoever is the
agent. Israel has too long
suffered the outrages of
such dispicable acts. The
United States has long
maintained that only
through negotiations, not
violence can progress be
made toward a just and last-
ing Middle East peace.")
In the recent chronology
of terror, civilians have
been the targets. On April 2,
three terrorists threw gre-
nades and opened fire on
crowds in King George
Street near Jaffa Road, the
busiest intersection in
Jerusalem, wounding 48
persons. One of the assail-
ants was killed and two
were captured.
On March 7, three Is-
raelis were killed and nine
wounded when a bomb
exploded on a bus in the port
city of Ashdod. On Feb. 28,
21 persons were wounded
when two hand grenades
exploded outside a mens'
clothing shop on Jaffa Road.
Last Dec. 6, a powerful
bomb demolished a bus in
the Jerusalem suburb of
Beit Vagan, killing six
people and wounding 41.
The hijack last week, in-
volving an inter-city bus,
triggered memories of the
March 11, 1978 coastal
highway massacre in which
35 people were killed and 80
wounded by heavily armed
terrorists who seized a bux
on the Haifa-TeI Aviv
highway and fired from its
windows on passing ve-
hicles.
The terrorists had come
from Lebanon by sea and
the mass killings were fol-
lowed by Israel's 1978 inva-
sion and occupation of south
Lebanon in what became
known as the Litani River
campaign.
Responsibility for several
of the more recent attacks
inside Israel was claimed by
the Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine,
a Marxist oriented, pro-
Soviet group headed by
Nayef Hawatmeh and cur-
rently based in Damascus.
The Democratic Front is a
breakaway from Habash's
PFLP.
Israeli experts on Arab af-
fairs noted that both dissi-
dent PLO offshoots are
vying for leadership of the
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