Israel military authorities today reported that 14 clashes took place along Israel’s frontiers last week between Israel patrols and armed infiltrators. Yesterday and today four different incidents involving shooting by Syrians across the border were reported from widely separated areas. There were no casualties. Israel complained to the Mixed Armistice Commission.
The Israel-Jordan MAC condemned Jordan today for the shooting of three Israel soldiers near Migdal Zadek a week ago, and for firing at another Israel patrol near Beth Iska. Then the MAC turned about and censured Israel because Israel soldiers replied to the Arab fusillades. In the latter instance the Israelis brought mortars into action.
The bodies of a young Israel couple who disappeared while on a hiking tour in the Dead Sea more than seven weeks ago, have been found buried five miles inside Jordan, an Israel military spokesman announced here last night. He revealed that Israel has demanded that the bodies of the two be returned to Israel territory immediately and that the United Nations truce supervision organization investigate the circumstances of their death.
The spokesman revealed that the Israel Army sent a group of volunteers–Israel Bedouins–inside Jordan to trace the couple–Shoshana Harsion, 17, and Oded Wagmeister, a young man in his twenties, both of whom were members of the same collective settlement.
The spokesman said that the volunteers found the victims’ headgear riddled with bullets and shortly thereafter came upon a mound of stones beneath which the bodies were buried. They had exhumed the girl’s body and were unearthing that of Wagmeister when they were attacked by a group of armed Jordanians. They were forced to leave the young man’s body and withdraw from Jordan territory.
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