Israeli planes bomb Lebanon refugee camps

Beirut, May 16: Waves of Israeli war planes bombed, rocketed and strafed Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon to-day and rst reports said 15 were killed.

The 20 minute air strike came less than 24 hours after a terrorist attack on a school in northern Israel that left nearly 100 killed and wounded.

A Lebanese Defence Ministry communique said a total of 36 Israeli jets took part in the attack on four refugee camps and three border villages in Southern and Central Lebanon.

In Tel Aviv the Israeli Military Command con rmed the raids but a spokesman claimed that it was a “purely military operation and refugee camps were not deliberately hit.”

In Cairo, according to a DPA message, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mr. Ismail Fahmy, and the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Mr. Yasser Arafat, had a one hour talk on the “latest events” in West Asia.

In Washington, the White House voiced criticism of the Israeli air raid as well as the Arab terrorist attack on Maalot.

Meanwhile a military communique announced in Damascus that Israeli artillery to-day bombarded the Syrian village of Bkaasam in the Mount Hermon region damaging several houses.

The U.S. Secretary of State, Dr. Kissinger, had an hour of private talks with the Israeli Premier, Mrs. Golda Meir, in Jerusalem to-day in his continuing bid to disengage Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights. — AP and AFP.

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

MAY 14, 1924