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April 20, 1954
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ISRAELIS FIRED UPON AT LEBANESE AND EGYPTIAN FRONTIERS

An Israeli police vehicle, traveling along the Israel-Lebanese border between Shomera and Eilon, in Upper Galilee, was fired on today from across the Lebanese frontier, an Israeli military spokesman announced here.

He said that although the vehicle was hit four times, none of the occupants were wounded. Israel immediately complained to the Israel-Lebanese Mixed Armistice Commission and asked for an emergency meeting to consider the complaint.

The military spokesman also reported that an Israeli patrol which came upon a crew of Arabs from Egyptian-held territory near Kissufim, in the Gaza strip, were fired on from Egyptian territory. Under cover of the fire, the Arabs illegally harvesting the fields in Israel escaped across the border.

Thirty head of sheep were stolen from the Ein Gedi settlement, on the Dead Sea, this week-end by infiltrees from Jordan. The tracks of the flock were traced to the border. A military reconnaissance plane patroling the border area spotted two khaki-clad men shepherding the flock toward the Jordanian village of Yata.

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