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50 Years ago: Israeli troops kill Arab guerillas
Tel Aviv, June 15: A four-man Arab guerilla death squad from Lebanon attacked the frontier settlement of Kfar Yuval to-day, seizing a house and holding people hostage inside, before Israeli troops killed them in a hail of gunfire, military sources said.
Two members of the family were killed and six others, including a seven-month-old baby, were wounded, an Army spokesman said.
The guerillas who attacked the co-operative settlement less than a mile south of the hilly frontier were killed by the storming troops, about 24 hours after they attacked.
The Arab marauders shot their way into the settlement at dawn, held an Israeli family at gunpoint and demanded that Israel release the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem and other Arab prisoners.
The Syrian-born Archbishop, Monsignor Hilarion Capucci, was jailed for 12 years in December for smuggling arms to terrorists inside Israel.
Troops then surrounded the village and stormed the house.
Formations of Israeli warplanes bombed a village and plantations in the Arkoub area of south Lebanon to-day, a Lebanese Defence Ministry communique said.
Arkoub is often referred to as Fatahland, home of the Palestine guerilla group.
The Israeli air strike came less than one hour after the report of the guerilla raid into the Israeli village.
