The New York Times · 13 July 1976

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ISRAEL IS DETAINING 50 WEST BANK ARABS

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TEL AVIV, July 12—Israel announced today that its security forces in the occupied West Bank of Jordan had smashed eight terrorist cells belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Israelis hold the Popular Front, led by George Habash, responsible for a series of hijackings, including the recent seizure of an Air France plane.

Military headquarters here said 50 suspects were detained “in recent weeks.” Some of the prisoners were said to have been in custody previously. An unofficial source said the prisoners included many intellectuals. The groups did not plan immediate acts of terror, but were organizing and supplying themselves for future operations, the source said.

The army said four more rings were exposed recently in Samaria and two more in the Tulkarm area. One group was said to have been responsible for gunfire at a bus taking Arab workers to jobs in Israel on March 28 as well as a grenade attack in Nablus on April 12, the day of mayoral elections in the occupied areas.

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