Arab revenge bombs kill 2 in Jerusalem

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(Editors' Note: This story has been censored by the Israeli military censor.) JERUSALEM (AP) — Two bombs exploded in Jerusalem yesterday, killing two Arab teenagers and wounding five persons in the worst terrorist attack in the city in 18 months.

(In Beirut, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist guerrilla organization, claimed responsibility for the bombings and said they were in retaliation for Israeli air strikes in South Lebanon last week.

(A communique from the PDF said “a special group working inside occupied Palestine planted the timed charge that exploded as planned, killing and wounding several Zionists and inflicting heavy damage in surrounding buildings.”) The first explosion occurred near an Arab school in the Old City's Christian quarter.

The blast ripped through the upper floor of the two-story building, toppling one wall and spewing rubble into the street. A student was killed and four other persons wounded, two seriously, police said. As authorities sifted through the debris for clues, another bomb exploded about three hours later in the Jewish suburb of Talpiot across the street from a nursery school.

An Arab teenager was rushed to a hospital but died of his wounds. Another man was injured. Police and civil guardsmen stepped up their checks of parcels and shopping bags at entrances to public buildings.

In another development, the Israeli military announced that 46 Arabs from towns in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River had been arrested on suspicion of belonging to five underground guerrilla cells which carried out a string of bombings starting in mid-1975.

A military communique said members of one cell from the town of Ramallah north of Jerusalem bombed four government offices there over a two-year period, while another planted bombs on two Jerusalem buses. The other detainees were from Hebron and Nablus.

The PDF, the Palestinian organization that claimed responsibility for the bombings, has said in Beirut its secret cells inside Israel have been instructed to intensify bomb attacks against Israel in retaliation for Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon last week.

Israel said it sent jets to attack Palestinian bases after rockets launched from Lebanon killed three Israeli civilians in north Israel. Palestinian and Lebanese authorities said 110 persons were killed and more than 200 wounded in the air strikes.

How this transcription was made

One scan of part of page 6, read at 9x-14x. Masthead strip reads "6 [two bullets] The Morning News, Wilmington, Del., Monday, Nov. 14, 1977" — the paper, city, day of week and date are all printed and all match Maria's label, and 14 November 1977 was in fact a Monday. The whole of this article is transcribed, together with its photograph caption. The page also carries a SEPARATE, unrelated article to the right, "Rabin sees PR in Sadat exchange" (PHILADELPHIA, AP), which is not part of this record and is not transcribed; it concerns Yitzhak Rabin's comments on Anwar Sadat's announcement that he would address the Knesset.

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"Arab revenge bombs kill 2 in Jerusalem," The Morning News, 14 November 1977, p. 6. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1977-034. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1977-034