Four terrorists were captured and a fifth was killed in an encounter with an Israeli patrol near the Jordanian border over the weekend, an Army spokesman disclosed last night. Israeli authorities believe the captured terrorists were members of a gang that had been operating in the Hebron hills during the past three years but more recently went into hiding.
The gang is believed to have been responsible for the Katyusha rocket shelling of Jerusalem in Dec. 1970 and the mining of a road which caused the deaths of four Israeli Army officers near Beth Jubrin in April 1971. Army sources said the terrorists emerged from hiding with the intention of fleeing across the Jordan River. The mothers of two of them were used to scout the Jericho road to see if it was safe for them to pass. A large arms cache was confiscated near Jericho after the gang was captured.
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