Two Israeli soldiers were injured, one seriously, in mining and shooting incidents on the east bank of the Suez Canal and in the Jordan Valley yesterday, a military spokesman reported. Jordanians fired on Israeli forces today near Tirat Zvi in the southern Beisan Valley and opened fire yesterday near Ashdod Yaacov and near the Damiya Bridge. There were no Israeli casualties in those incidents, the spokesman said.
United Nations observers were notified yesterday after an Army vehicle struck a mine east of the Suez Canal near the Small Bitter Lake, seriously injuring a soldier. Tracks and other evidence indicated that an Egyptian band of about nine commandos crossed the canal by boat and planted mines in the area. The other soldier was injured in a fierce exchange of fire yesterday between Israeli and Jordanian positions at Umm Shurt north of the Allenby Bridge.
(Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Yosef Tekoah, yesterday sent a letter to Security Council president George Ignatieff of Canada accusing Egypt of aggression at the canal and saying that “there can no longer be any doubt that United Arab Republic authorities are suppressing the truth when they pretend they have no knowledge of these military actions.”)
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