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^Tragedy at Kiryat Shemona •yVltikakSluirgll KIBYAT SHEMONA, (JTA) - Three Arab terroristt rnaitwred 18 peepU - tight ol th«tn cfaiUrm - mi wounded IS othtri - including two llcemen, three border trol guards and three — during a four4Mur mpage with machineguna, and grenade* lait y in thia town of U^OOO In Upper Galilee near the liebaneM border. The terroriati were Idlled by laraci lacurity forces, liiey belonged to a group calling itself 'The Popular Front — The General Command" headed by Ahmed Jabril with headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, the same t Beirul gang which claimed it had |Kcrpei(rated the slaughter of piPchUdr children in a school bus near Avivim three yean ago. Defenae Minister Mosbe yan rushed to the scene by from I Cabbiet ling in Jeruaalem. He accompanied by Acting Chief of SUff Gen Yitzhak Hofl. About 300 townspeople mtratod in the ttreeu 'jfter the mauacre to protest alleged lack of security measures. Kiryai Shemona ich has a large immigrant pulalton, has been a I target of terrarlst saults from, Lebanese territory in recent years. EyewHaeat Rcparls AccntUng to accounts o( the tragedy pieced together om eyewitnesa reports and ''reports by security forcet and municipal authorities, the .ierrorisla infiltrated' acroas Nae border during the night and invaded the town in the early morning ^boun. They occupied a school uilding, empty over the Passover holiday and began oUng wildly at passers-by ^ahorUy after 9 a.m. local ttoie. When security forces rushed to the scene, the lerrorisls escaped down a hill
ami occupied a four-etory apartment building facing the LeiMnese border some seven Ulometers to the north, murdering many of the occupants in their flats. According' to eyewitnesses, they tossed the bodies of their victims — including children — out of windows. The terrorists barricaded themselves on the top floor of the building and fired machineguns, Kalachnikof automatic rifles and grenades into the street. Israeli security forces surrounded the building. Acting under the direct supervision of Hofi, Gen. Motta Gur, commander of the northern command and national police chief Shaul Rozolio, they fired bazooka shells and recoilless cannon into Ihe fourth floor flat. Paratroopers prepared to storm the building when Ihe terrorists ignored a loudspeaker demand to surrender. At that point, an explosion tore through the flat, poaaibly the result of a direct hit. braeli toldiers entering the wrecked apartment found the bodies of three Arab terrorists sprawled on the fhwr. One of Ihe eyewitnetiat, ttihak Safra, said he heard people screaming that the terrorists were killing children. Though shooting wsa itiU going on in the i^per floor of the occupied buHding, he said, he did not heaitale
and entered the apartment. "We saw corpses at every entrance. Children, one a three-year-old, lay bulletriddled in their beda where they had been aprayed with gunflre." Bodies of victims were sprawled on doorsteps, on beds and under beds, in the children's rooms and in the kitchens, on the staircase and in the yard. There was blood on the staircase and in the apartments. A woman's bk)od-soaked apron lay at Die door to a flat where a mother of three was slaughtered. . AmramPeretz,2l,whowa* among the first to start rescue activitiea even while firing was continuing, aaid that he saw a man sobbing and yelling that "they slaughtered my children." Peretz said he rushed with the man into the flat and found wounded and dead children. The man's wife was fatally injured. The man pulled his dying wife and one wounded child to the basement where he covered them with his body, refusing to be parted from them.
family, the mother, Fanny, 30; and three children, Yocheved, li, Aharon, 8, and MotU. four. In the Bltton faniiily, the victims were Shimon, 33, Avi, Ave, and his two-and-a-half year old sister. In Ihe Guelta family, the
victims were Miriam and Yaacob, each SO. In the Stem family, death came to Hadassah, 27, and her daughter, Rachel, 8. Mrs. Esther Cohen, 4«, perished with her son David, 17 and her daughter, Shulamit, 14. Also
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dead were Esther Yazada, 80, and Shmuel Ben Abu, 58. The slain soldiers were identified as acting officer Mordechai Garidi, 20, of Ramat Hasharon and Corp. Abahab el Souhil, 20 from Maona-Tarshiha.
NCIL BLUFFS. LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Nab., Fri., April 19,1974
Golda Resigns
JERUSALEM, (JTA) Premier Golda Meir isauedher formal resignation last VIcUms IdesUfled week in a speech to the The depth of the horror of Knesset. the indiscriminate murders Addressing a hushed was draroatind by the Knesset meeting which had disclosure ol the-names of Ihe just received a report on the victims which indicated that terrorist carnage in Kiryat it was whole families which Shemona, Mrs. Meir staled: had been crippled or wiped "Since the recent Kneaael out. elections I have been watThey Included the Shitrit ching closely devekipments in Ihe country and I have reached the conclusion that there is a public unrest which cannot be avoided, whether it is Justified or not." Mrs. Meir said the public Rep. Holtzman made Ihe should have the right to study charge in testimony before a the possibility ol a new House immigration sub- government and observed committee several days ago. that although the present She uld that the U. S. government was resigning, Immigration and the Interim government was Naturaliiation Service had capable of handling the subsequently admitted to her situation and the army was that it had done virtually prepared to cope with all nothing over a period of nine challenges. She concluded her months to institute depor- statement with a call to the tation proceedings against nation "to behave not like a the alleged war criminals. stricken people but like a They have not interviewed a people with a future open single witness in any of the 38 before it." The special Knesset session cases, Ms. Holtzman said. She said she is asking for a was originally called to complete report on th^ status discuss the Agranat Comof the investigation and for a mittee's report, and the Likud detailed timetable for action had intended to propose a against each of the 38 per- vote of no confidence in Ihe government. However, with sons. Under the U. S. the turn of events the session Immigration and turned into a public debate on Naturalization Act, any alien Israel's internal crisis and or naturalized citizen is external dangers. After Mrs. Meir returned subject to deportation if his entry into the U.S. was baaed her mandate to Katzlr the read her on false statements. There la President no statute of limitations on resignation statement to deportation, Rep. Holtzman waiting newsmen, translating noted. She Mid that some of it Into English for American Uw alleged war criminala media. He said he would have been in the U.S. almost begin consultations im25 years and that IS of the 38 mediately with the various have become naturalized U.S. parties to select a candidate to head a new government. citliaaa.
38 Nazi War Criminals Said to be Living in U.S. WASHINGTON, (JTA) At leaat 38 alleged Natl war criminals are being allowed to remain in the United States because the U. S. Immigration Service has neglected to move againat them, according to Rep. Elizabeth HolUman (D. NY).
venant off Defiance Dcfykig a 8evM rH>*c which has almost banned dr icsoiclsisa, enksUted 'HbUlsl physMil Isal Goidslebi coo' dacKdl a krii ol hli (Irst-bom son Abraham. Isai's bratber Origsry, acting at taadek, boMt Ihe cklM. Repeatedly refascd nil la Israel. Isai wrote Ibc Studenl Straggle fsr 8«vle< Jewry, I fill never (Ivt up!"
Israeli Prime MinUter. GoMa Meir He said Mrs. Meir had informed him that she would not be a candidate. President Katzir told the reporters that
he had conveyed to Mrs. Meir the deep feelings of honor and respect that the entire nation fell for her.
Reform Judaism Names Woman To Head National Commission New York, NY. - Mrs. Joseph Maltzer of Huntington Woods, Mich., (Detroit) baa been elected as the new chairman of the Commission on Synagogue Administration of Reform Judaism. Mrs. Maltzer represents the first woman in the movement to head a joint body representing the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis. The Synagogue Commliaion assists the 71S
Reform temples in the United States and Canada with all phases of management, finance, building maintenance, design, construction and art development. The body also recommends guidelines and assists the member congregations in their program activities. Mrs. Maltzer has been an active leader in the Reform movement and presently serves as a vice-president of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the women's affiliate.