  {"id":185549,"date":"1972-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=185549"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:55:33","slug":"auto-insert-185549","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-185549\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Attacks &#8211; Letter from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>DOCUMENT S\/10816<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Letter dated 30 October 1972 from the representative of Israel to<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>the President of the Security Council<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>On instructions of my Government, I have the honour to draw your attention to a grave incident highlighting the responsibility of Arab Governments for the campaign of terrorism waged by Arab murder squads in the Middle East and in other parts of the world and those Governments&#39; direct involvement in the barbaric atrocities perpetrated by Arab terrorist organizations.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Yesterday, 25 October 1972, the Netherlands authorities at the Amsterdam airport detained a man, travelling to Brazil and carrying an Algerian diplomatic passport under the name of Ribhi Khalum. The man was detained when it was discovered that the luggage in his possession contained the following:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>In one suitcase, which was to be delivered to another Algerian diplomat serving in Latin America, <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">19 <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">booby-trapped letters, <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">5 <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">grenades, <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">9 <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">fuses and a quantity of explosives were found.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The second suitcase contained 5 pistols and more than 200 bullets.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The two suitcases were confiscated, and the man continued on his way to Latin America.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>It is known that Ribhi Khalum, a 33-year-old Palestinian member of <u>El-Fatah<\/u>,&nbsp;represents this terror organization in Latin America, pursuing his nefarious activities under the cover of his Algerian diplomatic passport. Approximately once a month, Khalum travels from Latin America to the Arab States and back. He has carried out various missions on behalf of <u>El-Fatah<\/u>&nbsp;and has participated in <u>El-Fatah<\/u>&nbsp;conferences and committees.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The second Algerian diplomat who was to receive the suitcase with the letter bombs, grenades and explosives is also known as an active member of <u>El-Fatah<\/u>.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The aforesaid facts constitute further irrefutable evidence of the close co-operation between the Arab murder organizations and Arab Governments, which even give diplomatic cover to terrorist agents and to the smuggling of deadly material for use in criminal terror operations.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>I have the honour to request that this letter be circulated as an official document of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>(Signed)<\/i>&nbsp;Yosef TEKOAH<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Permanent Representative of Israel<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">to the United Nations<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">* *** *<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOCUMENT S\/10816 Letter dated 30 October 1972 from the representative of Israel to the President of the Security Council On instructions of my Government, I have the honour to draw your attention to a grave incident highlighting the responsibility of Arab Governments for the campaign of terrorism waged by Arab murder squads in the Middle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-185549\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[2841],"document-source":[1362],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1857,1813,2385,2117],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-185549","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-letter","document-source-security-council","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-middle-east-situation","document-subject-security-issues","document-subject-terrorism","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/185549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/185549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=185549"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=185549"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=185549"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=185549"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=185549"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=185549"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=185549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}