{"id":181965,"date":"1985-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=181965"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:17:32","slug":"auto-insert-181965","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-181965\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Palestine question &#8211; Letter from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Letter dated 27 September 1985 from the Permanent Representative of Israel<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>I wish to bring to your attention the latest PLO outrages against innocent civilians in Israel.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>On 22 September 1985, a booby-trapped car loaded with four gas cylinders was discovered in the Mea Sharim neighbourhood of Jerusalem.&nbsp;&nbsp;The bomb was defused minutes before the car was to explode.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>On 26 September 1985, a bomb exploded at a bus station near Hadassah Hospital injuring two people.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>On the morning of 25 September 1985, three PLO terrorists stormed a small private yacht moored in the marina of Larnaca, Cyprus.&nbsp;&nbsp;Aboard the yacht were three Israelis, one woman and two men, who were on vacation. In the course of a siege lasting nearly 10 hours, the terrorists murdered all three Israelis in cold blood.&nbsp;&nbsp;The bodies of the victims were found with their hands tied behind their backs and shot several times in the back of the head.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The PLO claimed responsibility for the first two attacks. Initial reports indicate that the slaughter in Cyprus was carried out by &quot;Force 17&quot;, a personal bodyguard unit of Yasir Arafat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>In the last 45 days there have been 32 PLO terrorist&nbsp;&nbsp;attacks against innocent Israeli civilians.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a result of these attacks eight people have been murdered and 25 women and children wounded.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>This savagery is further evidence of the PLO&#39;s continuing campaign of terror directed solely against civilians. Israel will continue to take appropriate measures to defend the lives of its citizens against these brutal attacks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\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 General Assembly, under items 38 and 130, and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">(<u>Signed<\/u>) Benjamin NETANYAHU<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Ambassador<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Permanent Representative<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter dated 27 September 1985 from the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General I wish to bring to your attention the latest PLO outrages against innocent civilians in Israel. 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