The Beirut Radio today reported the arrest by Egyptian police of 66 persons in Gaza, all of them charged with “conspiring with the Israelis” during the recent Gaza incident. Those arrested were reported transferred to Cairo for further questioning, the broadcast said.
Israel delegates attended today their first meeting of the Israel-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission in two months. The Israelis have boycotted the MAC sessions because of the Syrian refusal to heed a MAC resolution calling on them to release four Israel soldiers captured early last December.
It is understood that the UN truce staff has undertaken to make new efforts to secure the release of the four Israel prisoners. The agenda of today’s meeting was to include two Israel complaints of Syrian transgression of Israel territory and two complaints filed by the Syrians.
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