Seven Arabs were killed today when a military escort replied with heavy fire to an attack on a party of laborers repairing wires 107 kilometers from Jerusalem.
An official communique reported sporadic shooting in various places and bomb explosions in Bethlehem and Haifa which caused no damage.
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