Radio Damascus confirmed today that planes of the United Arab Republic have been flying over Israeli army concentration points. The announcer asserted that Israeli troop formations were massing near the Israel Syrian border and boasted that Syria’s army was ready to “repulse any attack.”
Meanwhile, Israel Army Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Chaim Laskov yesterday visited the border settlements in the Huleh area which were shelled by Syrian guns Dec. 3. Settlers told him they wanted Israel to stand behind the recent statement in the Security Council by Abba Eban, Israel’s delegate, that further Syrian aggression would be treated like an act of war.
The Israeli press expressed the view today that the Security Councils decision to let Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold look into the Israeli complaint during his forthcoming visit to the Middle East meant that once again the Israel Army was left in sole possession of the task of securing Israel’s borders and the safety of its villages and residents.
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