Child Injured in Mortar Shelling of Beisan Valley Moshav by Jordanians

A child was injured last night in a brief mortar shelling by Jordanians of Moshav Yardena in the Beisan Valley, a military spokesman reported. Israeli forces returned the fire and silenced the Jordanian positions, he said. The shelling was one of several incidents of shooting and sabotage. A sabotage attempt was made on a small bridge near Nachal Oz in the Gaza area but no damage was caused and traffic was not interrupted. A water storage tank near Moshav Avivim on the Lebanese border was damaged by an explosion and another explosion damaged a stable and killed two goats. A military spokesman said Israeli artillery fired on military targets inside of Jordan and that fires were observed near Shuni village, opposite the Beisan area. Villagers were seen fleeing with their belongings.

One of Israel’s first television broadcasts will be the video-taped trial of a Gaza judge accused of having organized a terrorist group and of having collected intelligence for Egypt. The trial of Judge Adeb Shunrad, 46, will be taped for future telecast, it was announced here.

Israeli border police, mounted on jeeps, patrolled Nablus yesterday as 500 local high school girls carried out a peaceful, if occasionally noisy demonstration. The girls, who marched in an orderly manner past the military governor’s compound, were protesting the Israeli policy of demolishing houses that belong to or are used by terrorists. They stopped at the recently demolished house of an El Fatah member. But beyond shouts of “Nasser, Nasser” and “Allah is Great,” the demonstration was without incident.

Herut Party leader Menachem Beigin yesterday repeated his call for the “widespread and rapid” settlement by Israel of the occupied Arab territories. Mr. Beigin, minister-without-portfolio in the national coalition Government, spoke at a meeting of his party’s central committee. He said his proposal was necessary “to counter the threats of our enemies.”