A gang of Arab infiltrators from Jordan blew up a house in Zecharia village, in the Jerusalem Corridor, early today, seriously injuring five of the seven persons asleep in the structure. Neighbors pulled victims, members of the family of Abraham David, out of the wreckage of the house. An infant escaped injury and was not even awakened by the blast.
Israel immediately complained to the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission and trackers, led by bloodhounds, followed the tracks of the attackers toward the Jordan border.
In Jerusalem yesterday, the chairman of the Israel-Jordan MAC termed “a tragic error” the death last Friday of an American college senior, Charles B. Harris, of Nebraska, who was killed by an Arab Legionnaire when he wandered into no-man’s land from Jordan territory, where he had spent the previous week as a tourist. But he ruled that no violation of the armistice agreement had occurred.
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