Word: tawafik
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Nine hours after the policeman's death, the Israelis struck in force. Under cover of darkness, infantry troops of the Golani Brigade pushed off in files toward their objective: the Arab village of Tawafik. It lies in the demilitarized zone just below the Syrian-held hills, in an area that has been the subject of 755 complaints from the Israelis since 1951. When a Syrian searchlight stabbed at the advancing armor, the Israeli unit commander coolly radioed his artillery base: "I would be greatly indebted to you if you would kindly switch off that projector which is disturbing...
Later that day, Syrian forces moved back into the ruins of Tawafik, after U.N. officials had won the usual assurances of a cease-fire amid the usual counter-exchanges of boasts and threats. Cairo claimed to have killed 38 Israelis (Israel said it lost only three), and two Syrian MIG pilots were decorated after an aerial dogfight in which, said the Israelis, the MIGs fired wildly out of range...
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