Following the Kanafani death, Ma'ariv the Israeli daily, wrote: "The terrorists' statement linked the death of Kanafani to Israel and accused her of mounting this operation. Israel does not deny this or confirm it." Some eleven days following this incident, Anis Sayegh, a Director of the Palestinian Research Institute in Beirut, received an envelope ostensibly addressed to him from the Islamic Higher Council. When he opened it, it exploded, causing him partial blindness and the loss of three fingers. Within the same time period, another mail parcel exploded in the hands of the Director of a Beirut bank and the security officers of the Fateh in Beirut. (One had to closely scan the small print and the back pages of the Times to find a line or two, if that, about these incidents.)
Explosive devices were widely used by the Israelis in a broad campaign directed
against German scientists working in Egypt in 1962 and 1963. A bomb placed in a
gift parcel exploded, killing scientist Michael Khouri and five others with
him, and an attempt was made on the life of Dr. Hans Kleinwachter, another
scientist. Another package addressed to a West German scientist working in
Cairo blew up when opened, blinding his German secretary. The daughter of
German scientist Dr. Paul Goerke was threatened with a similar fate. There
were still other bomb varieties in which the Israelis excelled. Prior to the
June 1967 war, the Chief Intelligence Officer in the Gaza Strip and' the
Egyptian Military Attache' in Jordan were both killed by book bombs. In the
wake of the 1972 Lydda Airport massacre, the Palestine Popular Front's
spokesman, Ghassan Kanafani, was blown up when a plastic bomb attached to the
exhaust of his car exploded. |
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