Four Israeli soldiers and a border policeman were injured today when a hand grenade exploded on an Israeli patrol vehicle in the center of Gaza. The driver chased the grenade throwers but lost them in an alley. An Arab husband and wife and their two infant children were killed Friday when their cart hit a mine on a dirt road in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli patrol was attacked by bazooka fire near Manera in Upper Galilee today. The fire was returned. No Israeli casualties were reported Several 60 mm, mortar shells were fired from southern Lebanon into the Western Galilee area this morning without causing casualties. The fire was returned. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon warned Syria today not to intervene in the renewed fighting between Jordanian forces and Palestinian guerrillas. He recalled that Syrian forces suffered an ignominious defeat when they attempted to intervene on the side of the guerrillas in last September’s civil war in Jordan. He said the Syrian invasion attempt was foiled by the Jordanian Army, the presence of the Israeli Army on the borders and American intervention in Moscow which kept the Soviets on the sidelines. Egyptians on the west bank of the Suez Canal have replaced their observation balloons with firemen’s ladders. An Egyptian soldier was seen standing on top of one in the Jiddi Pass region Friday taking photographs of Israeli positions across the waterway. The Egyptians also resumed their propaganda broadcasts in Hebrew aimed at Israeli soldiers on the canal’s east bank.
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