Fifteen Jewish residents of a settlement near the Syrian border will go on trial tomorrow before a Syrian court on charges of illegal entry, it was learned today.
The fifteen are reported to have been forcibly dragged across the border by Syrian frontier guards and then charged with attempting to slip into the country. The settlers were beaten while resisting the guards.
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