Another act of sabotage was committed in Israel early today, when an explosive blew up under an old bridge on the Beersheba-Hebron road, a few miles south of the Jordanian border. The action was the third during the current Passover week, and the 106th act of sabotage inside Israel since 1965, No one was injured in the blast, and the bridge suffered only minor damage.
A waterpipe was blown up Friday near Kibbutz Hagoshrim, about a mile from the Syrian border. Explosives had been placed at that site at three different points. Here, too, no one was injured. Israeli army patrols here found three sets of footprints leading to the Syrian border.
The sabotage action near Jordan was also attributed by Israeli army investigators to terrorist gangs organized in or directed from Syria. Near the blasted bridge, investigators found stenciled pamphlets signed by “Al Assifa,” one of the terrorist groups organized under the sabotage bands of El Fatah. The pamphlets had been stenciled on the same paper as others found in the Lachish and Arad areas, after recent acts of sabotage had been committed there.
Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, chief of staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, renewed today his efforts to resume meetings of an extraordinary session of the Israeli-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission, which was adjourned indefinitely in February.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
