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Friday, April 12, 1985

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

NEWS

Israelis Bomb Terrorists
In Retaliation For Raids

Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel Air a number of trouble spots, such as
Force planes bombed a terrorist the town of Nabatiye, Ansar vil-
base near Shamalin Tuesday and lage and others north of the Litani
returned safely to their bases.
River, which will form the tem-
The Druze village, halfway be- porary line until the final
tween the coastal town of Damour pullback to the international bor-
and the mountain town of Aley on der.
the Beirut-Damascus highway
In Jerusalem, officials sought to
was described as the staging area rebut a charge by the Reagan
of pro-Syrian Palestine Libera- Administration that israel vio-
tion Organization terrorists who lated international law when it
oppose chief Yassir Arafat.
transferred some 1,100 inmates of
Reports from Beirut said 10 the Ansar Camp in south Lebanon
Palestinians were killed and 10 to a new detention camp inside
Druze injured in the air raid. Four Israel.
others were reported buried under
Following the transfer the Is-
the rubble of a two-story building raelis released 752 other de-
identified as the terrorist head- tainees, suspected members of
quarters. Eye-witnesses said the
building was destroyed by a single
bomb. -
An Israel Defense Force outpost
near Tyre came under fire Tues-
day morning. There were no
casualties. The outpost is at Burj
el-Shamali; a Palestinian
encampment outside Tyre.
Meanwhile, three Israel De- hostile organizations, who were
fense Force soldiers were
allowed to return to their home
wounded in south Lebanon last villages in Lebanon.
weekend in some dozen attacks on
State Department spokesper-
IDF and South Lebanon Army son Kathleen Lang read a state-
(SLA) positions and patrols.
ment in Washington charging
Six Israeli soldiers were that Israel has apparently vio-
wounded in south Lebanon in a -lated Articles 49,76 and 77 of the
series of attacks last week while Fourth Geneva Convention gov-
the Israel Defense Force stepped erning the treatment of prisoners
up its searches of Shiite villages.
in occupied territories. Similar
Eight armed terrorists were re - charges were leveled by the In-
ported killed last week in one vil-
ternational Red Cross in Geneva.
lage, Kautayat A-Siyad, about 20
Israeli officials contended that
kilometers south of Sidon. Accord- the State Department had not suf-
ing to the IDF, five were killed ficiently studied the legal and fac-
when they tried to evade a search tual aspects of the case.
of their car and three others while
Meanwhile, Israel expects the
hiding in a cave.
mandate of the United Nations
In a related development, a 21- Interim Force in Lebanon (UN-
year-old Israeli soldier who died IFIL) to be renewed without
at a Haifa hospital last week of change in the Security Council on
wounds suffered in south Leba- _April 19. The 7,000-odd UN troops
non, was a member of a prominent are not expected to move from
American-Jewish publishing their present deployment, several
family.
miles north of the Israel-Lebanon
Pvt. Marcus Hochstein was the
border.
son of Joseph Hochstein, former
In a related development, the
publisher of the Jewish Week of prospects for an all-out war in-
Washington, D.C., and a volving Israel with its Arab
grandson of Philip Hochstein, neighbors are slight, but that does
former editor and publisher ofThe not mean a lessening of terrorist
Jewish Week of New York.
activities against Israel, accord-
ing to Defense Minister Yitzhak
It also was reported that Israel
Radio said that the Israel Defense Rabin.
In a television interview and in
Force is speeding up its with-
drawal from the Western sector of a talk to the Association of He-
the South Lebanon front, follow- brew Periodical Editors in Tel
ing the winding up of the demoli- Aviv, Rabin spoke of the military
balance and the situation likely to
tion of the Ansar prison camp.
The Ansar camp was estab- develop after the Israel Defense
lished in the early months of the Force completes its withdrawal
Lebanon war in 1982 when the from south Lebanon.
He said Israel intends to estab-
IDF was sweeping victoriously
toward Beirut. It was set up to lish a security belt just north of
house thousands of captured the international border. He ex-
Palestinian terrorists, Syrian plained that Lebanese forces,
army regulars, suspected such as the South Lebanon Army
saboteurs and persons considered and the Shiite Moslem militia,
for one reason or another to be Amal, would be expected to de-
fend their own villages.
security risks.
Israel's interest in the security
Israel Radio said that Chief of
Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Levy will be belt is to make sure those villages
ready to inform Defense Minister do not become centers of terrorist
Yitzhak Rabin shortly that the activity against Israel, he said.
Rabin said that Iran continues
third and final stage of the
pullback can be started by the end to provide arms, money and other
aid to Shiite groups attacking the
of this month.
With the straightening of the IDF in south Lebanon and he be-
line following the evacuation of lieves all of this aid passes
the Ansar camp, with the freeing through Damascus. Syria is the
of some inmates and the transfer only Arab confrontation state
to a new camp inside Israel of the that supports Iran in its war with
otherS, the IDF can now abandon Iraq.

The Israelis are
reportedly speeding
up the withdrawal.

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