The Flint Journal · Flint, Michigan · 9 July 1972
CP-1972-005
Israel Accused in Assassination Blast
The Associated Press, Beirut
Transcribed from the clipping
“BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine accused Israel of assassinating one of its leaders Saturday and vowed to avenge his death with ‘a most ruthless strike.’ Ghassan Kanafani, 36, was killed by an explosion that demolished his sports car after he turned on the ignition outside his suburban Beirut apartment. His niece, Lamiss Nejim, 15, also was killed in the blast… ‘The front vows by his blood to take revenge… The front has proven its ability to pursue the enemy everywhere and inflict painful blows. We declare our reply this time will be the most ruthless and most painful.’… Guerrillas said Kanafani’s death was a reprisal for the attack because some Western newspapers had described him as its mastermind. Kanafani, editor of the leftist weekly Al Hadaf, was well known in the Middle East as an author of books, short stories and poems, many of them about the plight of the Palestinians. One collection of stories has been translated into Hebrew.… A military demolition expert estimated that about 10 pounds of dynamite was wired in the exhaust pipe of the brown Austin 1100 car and went off when Kanafani started the car at 11 a.m.”
Context added by this archive
The Associated Press version keeps the novels, the short stories and the poems, and the detail that a collection of them had been translated into Hebrew. The headline is about who is accused.
Cite this item
"Israel Accused in Assassination Blast," The Flint Journal, 9 July 1972. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1972-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1972-005
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- Arab Militant Leader Dies In Car ExplosionJacksonville Journal · 8 July 1972 · the same year
- Mideast guerrillas pledge to revenge chief’s bomb deathThe Sunday Oregonian · 9 July 1972 · the same year
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