Israeli border police units which, after 20 months of effort, restored order to the previously terror-stricken Gaza Strip, are being transferred to Tel Aviv to cope with a mounting wave of criminal activities, including bank robberies, assaults and rape, officials disclosed here today.
The units were assigned to the Gaza Strip in January, 1971 after a terrorist attack on the car of a Tel Aviv family in which two of the family’s children were killed. In a campaign of virtually non-stop counter-guerrilla operations, the border police succeeded in rooting the terrorists out of the area which is now considered relatively tranquil. A statistical report issued last week indicated a drop of almost 90 percent in terrorist activities in the Strip, officials said. The billets the border police used will be converted into hotels and guest houses for visitors. Tel Aviv police officials said the addition of the border police to their personnel would be a great help in fighting expanding local crime activities.
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