Five Palestinians killed by Israeli troop patrol

By United Press International

Transcribed from the clipping

“Israeli troops patrolling inside Lebanon battled a squad of Palestinian guerrillas and killed five of them, the Tel Aviv military command reported today. One guerrilla escaped. The first frontier clash in a month took place north of Kibbutz Dan Thursday night on the eve of Israeli celebrations marking the 27th anniversary of the U.N. vote to create the Jewish state.

‘We were on a routine patrol near the frontier and by the light of the moon we saw a group of terrorists about 100 yards away,’ a member of the Israeli patrol said in an interview with the armed forces radio. He said the equipment they carried indicated ‘they were aiming at hitting one of the settlements’ inside Israel.

‘It was a hard, fierce firefight.’ A military command spokesman in Tel Aviv said there were no Israeli casualties in the battle near the collective settlement at Dan, built on the site of ancient Israel’s northernmost outpost.

The Palestine News Agency said in Beirut the guerrillas attacked an Israeli army camp northwest of Dan with artillery, rockets and machine guns, but gave no casualty figures. ‘A big confrontation battle took place between the revolutionaries and the enemy forces in the area,’ the news agency said.

The Beirut newspaper An Nahar quoted Arab diplomatic sources today as reporting Egypt has told U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim it will reject any Israeli withdrawal from Sinai unless it is accompanied by a similar withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Sinai is Egyptian territory, while the Golan Heights are Syrian territory.

Israel has occupied both since the 1967 Middle East war.”

Context added by this archive

A small Indiana daily carrying three accounts of one night: the Israeli military command, a soldier on the armed forces radio, and the Palestine News Agency in Beirut, with the Beirut paper An Nahar at the end. The headline names who did the killing. The soldier’s own word for the five is terrorists; the headline’s is Palestinians.

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"Five Palestinians killed by Israeli troop patrol," Princeton Daily Clarion, 29 November 1974. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1974-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1974-008