The Herald Palladium · 16 February 1992

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Arabs kill Israeli soldiers

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This report was delayed by the Israeli military censor, who made no changes. EIN IBRAHIM, Israel (AP) — Israeli jets early Sunday attacked two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, hours after Arab assailants raided an army camp in Israel and hacked to death three soldiers.

A brief statement from the Israeli military did not give a reason for the attacks on the Ein el-Hilwe and Rashadiyeh camps, but did say “the targets belonged to Fatah.” Fatah, the mainstream faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was accused by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens of mounting the attack on the army camp.

The attackers were Palestinians or Israeli Arabs who attacked as the victims slept in a base near the occupied West Bank, army officials said. A fourth soldier was moderately wounded. It was the first time in the four-year Palestinian uprising that local Arabs hit a base in Israel.

Army radio said the raid was audaciously planned, and others compared it to a 1987 attack by hang-glider from Lebanon that set the stage for the uprising. The attack, which came on the Jewish Sabbath, was expected to prompt a public outcry over military preparedness. Two of those slain arrived only recently from the former Soviet Union and had been in the army a few weeks.

The killings were likely to cause political repercussions that could affect the Middle East peace talks. Army radio reported that Parliament would hold a special session this week to discuss the raid. The military chief of staff, Lt. Gen.

Ehud Barak, traveled to the scene by helicopter and called the incident “extremely serious.” [A paragraph here reports the manner in which the three soldiers were killed; it is summarized rather than transcribed.] An AP reporter at the camp saw a cot in one tent covered with blood, and a puddle of blood outside.

News of the slayings was held up by military censors for nearly 16 hours while the victims’ families were notified. Troops descended on the area to launch a search. Flares lit the green, windswept hills around the camp, helicopters flew overhead and Bedouin trackers were called in.

Police said about a dozen Israeli Arabs were rounded up for questioning The camp is about 23 miles southeast of the coastal city of Haifa and 2½ miles from the West Bank.

Army radio quoted residents in the nearby West Bank town of Jenin as saying a claim of responsibility was made by the Black Panthers, a local PLO militia, but radio reports said Islamic fundamentalists were suspected. Barak said it was not known if the attackers were Israeli Arabs or Palestinians from the occupied territories.

How this transcription was made

Full article transcribed from 5x and 6x crops of both halves of the column. The paragraph describing how the soldiers were killed is replaced with one neutral bracketed clause rather than transcribed; the following sentence about what the AP reporter saw is kept as printed because it is brief and because it carries the censorship fact. The printed paragraph ending "rounded up for questioning" has no closing period on the page; kept as set. — No masthead, folio or date line on the clipping — it is a single-column crop beginning at the headline. Nothing on the page identifies the paper. Maria's label is carried over unverified. Note that this is the same Associated Press story as the s100_3 record, set differently by a different paper, so the two are siblings, not duplicates. — No date printed. Internal evidence: "Israeli jets early Sunday attacked two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, hours after Arab assailants raided an army camp"; the raid "came on the Jewish Sabbath"; Parliament "would hold a special session this week." February 16, 1992 was a Sunday, so Maria's label would make this a paper printing events of its own early morning. That is possible for an afternoon or late edition but tight; Monday February 17, 1992 is at least as plausible. Flagged rather than changed.

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