A potash plant on the Dead Sea near Sodom was the target last night of a Katyusha rocket attack apparently by Arab guerrillas. It escaped damage and there were no Israeli injuries, a military spokesman said. The attack followed Israeli Air Force operations against Jordanian positions near the Allenby and Abdullah bridges.
Jordanian shells damaged an agricultural school in the area which is attended by Arab boys. Houses and sheds were damaged but the pupils in shelters provided by the Israel Government, were not injured. The school, run by the Arab Development Society’s Boys Town, is owned by Moussa Alami, a former Palestinian nationalist leader who has lived in Amman, London and the United States since the Six-Day War. The institution’s manager told reporters that, contrary to Jordanian allegations, no Israeli military positions have been set up near the school, which is close to Jericho and about five miles from the Jordan River. The farm, with 130 pupils, most of them orphans, and 350 staff members and laborers, came under heavy Jordanian shelling Sunday and Monday. Damage was estimated at $100,000.
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