Egyptian boats carrying armed soldiers were reported here today to be patrolling the west bank of the Suez Canal in apparent violation of an Egyptian-Israel agreement that neither side is to use the canal for one month. The agreement was negotiated last week by Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, the United Nations supervisor for cease-fire arrangements ordered by the Security Council in the June war.
The U.N. agreement provided that no shipping would move on the waterway except traffic of boats bringing provisions to ships stranded in the Canal after the Egyptians sank a number of vessels at strategic points to block the waterway. Israeli officials said no naval craft are moving along the eastern bank except on Bitter Lake. Israeli officials were considering a warning to Egypt, through Gen. Bull, that if the Egyptians continued patrolling, Israel would follow suit.
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