Four Israeli water engineers, civilians, were murdered in an Arab ambush last night less than a mile from the Jordan frontier. The attack took place some 70 miles north of Eilath.
United Nations observers tracked the attackers from their ambush position, which had been occupied by eight men, to a point across the Jordan border where the eight split into three parties and disappeared. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett sent an urgent message today to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold charging that the attack had been carried out by fedayeen, “from whatever territory the murderers may have come.”
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