Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desert near Beersheba. A warning by the Arab guerrilla organization El Fatah that Christmas tourists would not be safe in the Holy Land led the Israeli government to station 950 security police in Jerusalem and Bethlehem and to set up roadblocks in the area...
...modern Sidon, hundreds of them have left to take jobs in Saudi Arabia and such oil-rich sheikdoms as Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, sending part of their paychecks back to their families. Several hundred others have gone by secret mountain trails into Syria, where they undergo training with El Fatah or one of the other terrorist groups that send commandos into Israel to avenge their fathers' sufferings by murder, arson and sabotage. At least four of the camp's sons died in raids last month alone. This activity is a source of fierce but guarded pride among...
...Jerusalem, which was dynamited (it was scheduled to be torn down anyway), and a large canning factory at Givat Haim, which was blasted by a tractor toting 25 lbs. of TNT. The professional jobs are thought to be the work of the Syrian-trained terrorists of El Fatah, and Israeli agents fanned out through Arab settlements in the occupied territories picking up Fatah suspects. They arrested some 200, most of them around diehard centers of Arab resistance, such as the town of Nablus on the Jordan's West Bank. In Nablus, Israeli police imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew...
...painted warning symbols on the shutters of shops belonging to striking Arabs, arrested two prominent Jordanians as the ringleaders and summarily sentenced them to three months in prison. Elsewhere too, the Israelis are responding with measured toughness to any hint of trouble. In Bethlehem, 40 suspected members of El Fatah, the. Syrian-trained terrorist organization, were arrested as they met in a cafe. And throughout the new terri tories, Israeli soldiers continued their house-to-house search for arms. If so much as a pistol is found under a mattress, the soldiers clear out the inhabitants and coolly dynamite...
Asifa is the military arm of a group called El Fatah, which is a reverse acronym standing for the Arabic words Harakat Tahrir Falastin (Movement for the Liberation of Palestine). By itself, El Fatah means "Conquest." One of El Fatah's top leaders is Haj Amin Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Since the first of the year, Asifa claims to have made 13 raids into Israel to commit acts of "strategic sabotage," that is, the dynamiting of reservoirs and kibbutz buildings...