Four terrorists from Lebanese territory were killed last night in an encounter with an Israeli patrol in the Upper Galilee. In addition, two terrorists were killed north of the Dead Sea. All were found to be bearing weapons, ammunition and mines. Meanwhile, security forces were searching for the saboteurs who forced Arab workers out of a bus near Hebron and destroyed it by fire. Security forces have uncovered two more terrorist bands-one at El Arish in the northern Sinai headed by two Egyptian intelligence men and another in the Jerusalem area. The El Arish band was charged with firing bazookas at the Nahal Yam settlement, shelling the military governor’s house and planting mines. The four-man Jerusalem gang, headed by 27-year-old El Fatah trainee Said Eldado, admitted throwing grenades at the Nablus and Jaffa gates and at the British Consulate and sabotaging an electric pylon. Three members of a spy ring in the service of El Fatah were sentenced to jail today. They were Ommar Ibrahim Assoulin of East Jerusalem, a part-time journalist and engineering student in Beirut, Lebanon, and Seidan and Abou Khalil, Israeli Arabs. They had been found early last year in possession of military information. Assoulin received 10 years, the Khalils 6 years each. According to information from Amman, there are only 5,000 guerrillas in Jordan, compared with 20,000 before last September’s civil war.
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