A list of new charges against Syria were last night submitted by Israel to Col. Bennet de Ridder, acting chief of the United Nations truce commission, with the request that these complaints be included in the agenda of the next meeting of the Israeli-Syrian mixed armistice commission. The charges are:
1. Arab para-military forces supported and commanded by members of the Syrian regular army have entered the Nuqeib area, in the demilitarized zone, and have been attacking for the past two weeks all civilians and police in the vicinity.
2. During the last five days, Syrian troops again attacked and murdered Jews in the demilitarized zone, including one policeman who was on a routine police patrol–such patrols having been sent to Nuquieb almost daily for many months.
3. Syria has recruited several hundred Palestine Arab refugees who are being trained and armed by Syrian formations along the Israeli border.
4. About 60 armed khaki-clad Arabs entered last Friday and Saturday a number of villages in Israeli territory, violating the provisions of the armistice agreement.
5. Arab forces entering the demilitarized zone in the Nuqeib area from Syria have constructed military positions and fortifications inside and around the village of Nuqeib.
Israel authorities also lodged a strong protest with the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission as a result of a new clash between Israeli border patrols and armed bands of Arabs. The latest in a series of incidents took place Saturday in the Dahariya Fields near here when an Israeli border patrol drove off a group of Arab shepherds grazing their flocks. The shepherds later returned accompanied by a large armed band of “national guards” who were driven off in the ensuing skirmish. The Israeli patrol suffered no casualties.
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