Word: shemona
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...towns were under heavy rocket attack. By the time the onslaught ended, almost two hours later, Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon had fired as many as 120 Katyusha rockets across the border, concentrating on the Israeli coastal resort town of Nahariya (pop. 30,000) and the settlement of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 20,000). The attacks killed three Israelis and injured 25. The assault had been well aimed and well timed to maximize casualties; salvo after salvo of rockets, fired at tenor 15-minute intervals, fell on the two communities at an hour when many of their residents were homeward bound...
...selection of Qiryat Shemona as a target had a special significance for Israelis, who remember the Palestinian attack of 1974 on the settlement that left 18 Israelis dead, including eight children. In the recent election campaign, Prime Minister Menachem Begin had vowed: "Never again shall Katyusha rockets hit Qiryat Shemona." When he learned of the latest attack, Begin, who is on the verge of forming a new government with the help of three small religious parties, is said to have reacted with great emotion. "He was angry, tough and vicious," a Foreign Ministry official said later. Clearly the Israeli response...
...campaign had exploded in anger and resulted in new and disquieting ethnic rifts in the population. Sephardi Jews, predominantly a working-class constituency in the new immigrant cities of Beersheba and Qiryat Shemona and the grimy slums of greater Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, rejected the traditional socialism of the Labor Party in favor of the radical right-wing nationalism of the Likud. In turn, the more affluent Ashkenazi Jews from northern Europe backed Labor. Ironically, Begin, an Ashkenazi from Poland, was idolized by his more extremist Sephardi followers, who proclaimed him "King of Israel" in campaign slogans and songs...
...unmistakable message to Damascus and Beirut that not even a token force of Palestinians is permissible in southern Lebanon. In the midst of last week's fighting, the Israeli government pointed out, Palestinian Katyusha rockets from across the border hit the Israeli towns of Safad and Qiryat Shemona-scene of a notorious fedayeen raid in 1974, in which 18 Israelis and three Palestinians died, and 15 people were wounded. If Washington cannot persuade the Israelis to back off, however, the U.S. is bound to lose a bit of credibility among the Arabs. Explained an American diplomat involved...
What effect would the Savoy Hotel raid have on Kissinger's latest mission? In part, the answer depended on Israel's reaction to the raid. The terrorist attack was the ninth major foray into Israel by the Palestinians since Qiryat Shemona last April. All together, 62 Israelis have been killed, 170 others have been wounded; almost all were civilians. After previous attacks, the Israeli government reacted with eye-for-eye ferocity, usually with devastating air raids and armored attacks on Palestinian refugee camps or fedayeen outposts in southern Lebanon...