Word: shemona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Naqura, the scenery suddenly changes from lush and crowded to barren and empty. As it wound through Dhayra, Awad Dib, a 35-year-old tobacco farmer and father of nine, could be seen doggedly rebuilding his house. One April night last spring, after the fedayeen raid on Qiryat Shemona that killed 18 Israelis (TIME, April 22), an armored column rolled into the village. "About 35 men came to my farm," he told me. "They said I helped the fedayeen. They took all the furniture in my house and piled it in one room. Then they took my family outside...
...Israeli antipersonnel mine. At night, most of the villagers huddle inside the thick walls of St. George's Greek Orthodox Church for sanctuary. From St. George's terrace, Father Moussa Khoury points out the only glow visible in the valley below. It comes from Qiryat Shemona, the Israeli town 13 miles away. Looking at the silhouette of a giant oak tree near the terrace, Father Khoury reflects: "It's been here for a thousand years, they say. But then so have we. And here we stay...
...night attack on Nahariya, the Palestinians landed on the municipal beach in a small dinghy and sneaked into town in civilian clothes. They were soon discovered by one of the civilian patrols that have been organized in border settlements as a result of the recent fedayeen raids on Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot and Shamir kibbutz. Shooting started, and the Palestinians ducked into an apartment house for protection...
...sand strips designed to pick up footprints, fedayeen have apparently managed to sneak unobserved over the border from Lebanon to carry out terror attacks inside Israel. Although at least 25 Palestinians have been spotted and killed within the past month, other commandos killed 46 Israelis in attacks on Qiryat Shemona and Ma'alot. Last week the Palestinians struck again, this time at a border kibbutz called Shamir eleven miles from Qiryat Shemona. The four fedayeen died in a battle with kibbutzniks, but not before they had slain three women in the community...
...time has long passed when the world can continue its apathy toward the terrorist actions of Arab groups against civilians [May 27]. The uproar after the Olympics quickly waned, along with that after the incidents of Lod Airport and Qiryat Shemona. The guerrillas have gone past killing civilian adults. Now they must show their extreme "bravery" by slaying innocent children. If the murderers of children are to be made heroes by a country, then we must treat that country like the plague, and shun...