Israel has complained to the Security Council over “the continuation of the activities of the terror and murder organizations in and from Lebanon” against the civilian population of Israel. Ambassador Jacob Doron, Acting Permanent Representative of Israel, in a letter to this month’s President of the Security Council, Moulaye EI Hassen, cited two recent instances in which terrorist infiltrators on missions of murder and destruction, were intercepted by Israeli forces.
The letter accused the Lebanese army of continuing “to acquiesce in the complete freedom of action of armed units of the terror and murder organizations in Lebanon” and charged that the Lebanese government takes no action against the terrorists despite complaints from its own citizens and despite terrorist acts against Lebanese soldiers.
Doron noted that on May 23, a terrorist who surrendered to Israeli forces in Galilee admitted that he and four other terrorists had been trained in Lebanon and personally briefed by EI Fatah chief Yassir Arafat before embarking on a mission to seize hostages in the Israeli town of Nahariya, attack the police station at Carmiel and “use hand grenades to kill everybody inside the local cinema.”
CITES ‘MURDER SQUAD’
Doron reported that on the night of June 1-2 “another murder squad from Lebanon was intercepted by an Israeli patrol in the Admit region of Western Galilee.” Two were killed and the rest escaped back to Lebanon.
The Israeli Ambassador cited reports in the Lebanese press “that residents of southern Lebanon continue to voice their complaints against their government for permitting terrorist bases to exist in their midst.” He also referred to news agency reports from Lebanon of the recent kidnapping of a number of Lebanese soldiers by the terrorists “and all the Lebanese army did was to negotiate the release of the soldiers with the leadership of the terror organizations.”
“The government of Lebanon thus continues to permit the existence in its territory of an autonomous regime, as it were, of the terror organizations,” Doron’s letter continued. “Israel is compelled to defend itself and its citizens against the crimes that are being perpetrated from Lebanese territory by these organizations and the responsibility for all the consequences falls squarely on Lebanon,” he warned. Doron asked that his letter be circulated as an official document of the Security Council.
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