Defense Minister Moshe Dayan denied Sunday foreign reports that Israel was seeking to block the Suez Canal. He told the Cabinet that Israel “maintained bridges” across the canal to link its forces, but that reports saying it was seeking to block the canal had no basis in reality.
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