Renewed Syrian attacks this weekend on an Israeli patrol boat on Lake Tiberias and on Israeli field workers in the Shaar Hagolan area were among the subjects discussed here this morning during an hour-long meeting between Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Gen. Odd Bull, the new chairman of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
The meeting was also attended by Henri Vigier, political adviser for Gen. Bull, and Col. Yosef Kalev of the Israeli General Staff. Premier Ben-Gurion reportedly cited the new wave of unprovoked attacks from Syrian positions on the northeast shore of Lake Tiberias where the Syrian gunners opened fire on Sunday on an Israeli patrol vessel with mortars and heavy machine guns. The fire was returned and no casualties were reported. Earlier attacks were aimed at field workers in the Shaar Hagolan area and at fishermen on the lake.
The Prime Minister pointed out to General Bull that until Sunday, the Syrians had not recently used machine guns and recoilless rifles on the settlements and added that Israel would not countenance repeated aggressions without reply. (In Damascus, meanwhile, the Syrian authorities charged that Israeli Jet planes fired rockets this weekend into a Syrian border village near Lake Tiberias and that an Israeli boat had shelled a Syrian outpost.)
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