Prime Minister Levi Eshkol warned Jordan today against permitting any further sabotage infiltrations against Israel, originating in Jordanian territory. Three such attacks or attempts at sabotage have taken place in the last months by gangs of saboteurs who escaped across the border, back into Jordan. In the last attack, early Sunday morning, at Kfar Hess, an Israeli patrol wounded and caught one of the perpetrators.
Mr. Eshkol voiced his warning to Jordan in replying to a motion introduced in the Knesset, Parliament, by Herut, charging the Government with “inaction” in the face of sabotage attacks. “Surely, Israel would not tolerate such developments,” replied the Premier. He proposed that the issue be referred to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, and Herut agreed to such a procedure.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Supervision Organization today completed its investigation into the Kfar Hess incident. Israel has charged that Jordan has refused to let the U.N. military observers use Jordanian tracking dogs which the U.N. wanted to employ for tracing the footprints of the Kfar Hess saboteurs. Those prints led directly from Kfar Hess to the nearby Jordanian border.
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