The New York Times · 8 April 1956

CP-1956-048

ARAB SQUADS RAID ISRAEL FROM GAZA

Reprisal Attacks Reported to Carry 15 Miles—Firing Continues at Truce Line

By Homer Bigart, Special to The New York Times

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sunday, April 8—Arab suicide squads invaded Israel from the northern tip of the Gaza strip last night, according to the Israeli Army. An Israeli spokesman said the raids were in reprisal for the Israeli bombardment of the town of Gaza Thursday. Two persons were slain and at least a dozen injured by the Arab marauders, it was reported.

At Ascalon shortly after midnight, it was added, an Israeli woman was killed when a grenade was thrown into her house. Attacks by the Arab squads, or fedayen, as they are known, were reported on Nizanim, ten miles north of the Egyptian-held Gaza strip, and at Faluja, north of Beersheba. The deepest penetrations were said to be fifteen miles.

According to Israelis, the fedayen are recruited chiefly from Palestinian Arab refugees and trained by the Egyptians. Earlier yesterday, the Israeli Army had charged that Egyptian soldiers had broken the new United Nations cease-fire along the Gaza strip three times.

No casualties were reported in the three exchanges of firing that ensued across the frontier armistice line. [An Egyptian account accused the Israelis of having fired first.] Last night, the Israeli Army said, Arab guerrillas tossed grenades at houses near Nizanim,

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