Shooting flared in the Beisan area and the Golan Heights last night and this morning. An Israeli soldier was wounded yesterday in the southern section of the Suez Canal. A curfew remained in effect in the northern part of the Gaza Strip today after a series of attacks on vehicles in which three Israelis were injured.
Defense Minster Moshe Dayan warned Gaza Strip residents that harsher measures would have to be taken unless the escalation of terrorism ceased. The curfew was lifted in the twin towns of Ramallah and El Birreh yesterday at the request of the newly elected mayor of Ramallah, Moussa Khalil. It had been imposed Sunday after a grenade was thrown at an Israeli Army unit there.
A military spokesman said that the area of Gesher in the Beisan Valley and Nahal Golan in the northern Golan Heights came under fire from Jordanian and Syrian territory. Bazookas were fired at Gesher and Iraqi artillery went into action after Israeli forces returned the bazooka fire. Several shells exploded in Nahal Golan. There were no Israeli casualties in either action.
Israeli forces returned the body of a slain Egyptian commando today in return for the body of an Israeli Druze soldier who was captured by the Egyptians in a commando raid a week ago and later died of his wounds. The exchange, under the auspices of the International Red Cross, was delayed when the Egyptians fired mortars at a Red Cross convoy.
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