Israel Air Force jets attacked Egyptian artillery positions in the northern section of the Suez Canal zone today and returned safely to their bases. Israeli jets attacked guerrilla bases in Jordan intermittently for several hours yesterday. The targets were the source of Katyusha rocket attacks on Beisan township. Kfar Ruppin and Yavneel in the Beisan Valley. Israeli jets also attacked Egyptian positions in the central and southern sections of the Canal zone yesterday and returned safely to their bases. An Arab terrorist suspect was killed in Gaza this morning and an Arab saboteur was killed at about the same time in the Jordan valley in an encounter with an Israeli patrol. The Gaza shooting occurred when Israeli forces met with resistance while rounding up suspects in a refugee camp. Nine were arrested.
An Israeli patrol in the Beisan valley was attacked by bazookas and small arms fire from Jordan today and returned the fire. There were no Israeli casualties. The bodies of five Egyptians were returned to Egypt by Israel at Kantara today under the auspices of the International Red Cross. Two of the dead were pilots of a pair of llyushin bombers shot down in an Egyptian air raid on El Arish in the northern Sinai last week. The other three were Egyptian commandos killed in a raid on Israeli positions in the southern section of the Suez Canal zone. At the same time Israel sent back to Egypt 124 Gaza residents and 37 Egyptian fishermen captured in the Gulf of Suez. Sixty Gaza residents were returned from Egypt to Israel-held territory.
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