IfvOL. XXXV; Noi 29, AV 15, 5728
VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1968
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B-Fatah fetror raids conditions for new war
JERUSALEM Despite a re-|prisal£dr attack and warnings by ! Israeli leaders that Israel would jnot permit Arab terrorism within its borders to go unchallenged, a group of Arab saboteurs cross-
ed into Israel this week and fired a bazooka shell at a clinic in a border settlement.
An Israeli army spokesman said an Israeli patrol intercepted the saboteurs and chaised them
across the border back into Jordan. In the skirmish' five of the Arabs were killed and two others were wounded and captured.
The warning that stepped'-up infiltration by El-Fatah terror-
rSa retains plane, male crew
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PRESSURE BRINGS RELEASE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
HIJACKED ISRAELI PLANE remains in possession of Algeria together with ail male members of its crew and all Israeli males who were on board the El Al Boeing 707 which was bound for Tel Aviv from Rome. Piecemeal release of the 38 passengers and crew of 10 began with the flight to Rome of passengers who held other ttian Israeli passports. Subsequent international pressure caused tiie release of Israeli women passengers and female crew members; Nira Avnieli (right) and il!jelu^^ of tiie
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lamiliei^fat lH>d^airpinr| j^l^^ tl|i«l]* ^ease by the Algerians. 0>ded Abarbanel (top photo)/ is tile Captain of the iU-fated El Al plane hijacked by members of the Palestine Libemtion Front. Forced to land in Algeria, he put up a fight and was hit on the, head with the butt of a revolver by the Arabs. Passengers reported one of the hijackers put his finger in the pilot's blood, tasted it and said, ''Israeli blood tastes
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ists was creating the same "chain of events which led to the June war," was issued here by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol following last Sunday's retaliatory strike by Israeli jets against Arab guerrilla ba^s inside Jordan. Mr. Eshkol described the attack as a retaliatory measure for a month of increased activity by Arab infiltrators based in Jordan, and warned that "the enemy shall 'be made to pay the price in full."
Maj.-General Chaim BarLev, Israeli Chief - of r Staff, reported that two guerrilla bases near the town of Salt, 11 miles across the Jordan River, were completely destroyed in the Israeli air attack, i
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Two officers kiiled
TEL AVIV—^In a terrorist clash recently in the vicinity of Jericho, eight infiltrators were killed and one captured. The battle claimed the life of Colonel Arieh Regev and Captain Gad Manela.
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Sapir installed
TEL AVIV—Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir has been installed as new Labor Party Secretary-General. His treasury post will be taken by Zeev Sharef, Minis-: ter of Commerce and Industry but Sapir will remain in the Cabinet without portfolio.
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David^s Tower open
JERUSALEM — For the first time since 1947, David's Tower has opened to the general public. Opening performance last week of the Israel Festival was held in the citadel built by Herod 2,000 years ago.
Yiddrsh theatre
TEL AVIV—Forty actors and musicians of the Rumanian Yiddish State theatre are performing in Israel offering Bercovici's "A string of pearls" and a drama of he Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, "We were 10 brothers".
inhuman con
ditions
JERUSALEM — Egyptian authorities are holding Jews as hos tages imder "appalling conditions" imtil Israel withdraws from the territories it occupied in the Jiine, 1967, Arab-Israeli war, it was learned here last month The information came from a European visitor who was in Egypt and inquired about Jewish prisoners at camp called Thaura.
The informant said he solicited it from Egyptian Government sources. About 250 Jews are heild in the camp's "political wing which is controlled by security police; they range in age from 18 to 60, the informant said, and have been imprisoned for over a year without trial or charges brought against them.
This report and others of a similar vein have been brought here by travellers who visited Egypt despite Egyptian attempts to hide the facts from foreigners. Relatives of prisoners were permitted to visit them once a month or once in six weeks and every time they returned for a prison visit they were shocked by the conditions they saw, according to reports. Several prisoners have committed suicide and others have made repeated attempts to do so. A nimiber have become mentally unbalanced and are confined to a "mental wing" of the camp, travellers said.
The reports of inhuman conditions in camps where Jews are confined have been given apparent added credence by the adamant refusal of Egyptian and Syrian authorities to let International Red Cross missions inspect the prisons. Both countries have refused to allow a United Nations representative to inquire into the condition of the Jewish communities. Their refusal has
held up Secretary-General U Thant's appointment of a special emissary to investigate the condition of civilians in the Middle East. Israel has agreed to allow the UN inspector to visit the occupied territories on condition that the Arab countries facilitate a like inspection of the Jewish communities within their borders.
Last year, Mr. Thant sent Nils Goran-Gussing. of Sweden, to look into Arab complaints of Israeli oppression in the occupied zones. Mr. Gussing reported that life there was normal and that the Arab population of East Jerusalem was mingling fr^^ly with the Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem. However, the Egyptian and Syrian Governments refused to permit him to make a first-hand investigation of the situation of Jews in those countries.
There is no Jewish community in Jordan and Iraqi Jews are reportedly suffering from virulent discrimination.
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