Word: kibbutz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNITED NATIONS--The U.N. Security Council passed a bill Thursday "strongly deploring an Israeli raid against Palestinian guerillas in Southern Lebanon, staged April 8 in retaliation to a Palestinian attack on a northern Israeli kibbutz...
...guerrillas died in the Israeli raid, and three Israelis and five Palestinians died in the attack on the kibbutz...
...incursion had been provoked by a raid early last week on the northern kibbutz of Misgav-Am on the Lebanese border. Seizing six hostages in the kibbutz nursery, they demanded the release of several Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Following an abortive predawn rescue attempt, Israeli troops stormed the concrete dormitory. They killed all five terrorists and saved all but one of the hostages: a two-year-old boy who had apparently been killed in the original raid. One Israeli soldier and the kibbutz secretary also died in the attack...
...kibbutz raid was the work of the Arab Liberation Front, an Iraqi-based organization affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization. The timing could hardly have been worse for the Palestinian cause, which has lately been gaining support on the diplomatic front while downplaying its terrorist image. P.L.O. officials in Beirut indicated that they had not even been forewarned of the attack...
...incident nonetheless nourished the claims of Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and his hard-lining supporters, who contend that full-fledged self-determination on the West Bank would lead to a P.L.O. state and a permanent threat to Israeli security. To dramatize that message, at the funerals for the slain kibbutz members, Begin declared: "We are no longer defenseless. Permit me to say we have a really magnificent army-you saw it yesterday." Within 48 hours of the kibbutz rescue operation, the Israeli army had rolled across the Lebanese border...