Israel has called for an emergency meeting of the Israeli-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission following a shooting incident this weekend in which an Israeli border guard was severely wounded.
A Syrian-owned flock crossed into cultivated fields of the Israeli settlement of Dardara on Friday. When the border guards sought to drive the sheep back, heavy fire was opened on them from behind the frontier.
Israel today lodged a protest with the Egyptian-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission against an attack by an armed gang of Arabs from Egyptian territory on Israeli Bedouins in the demilitarized zone near El Auja. The Egyptians invaded the demilitarized zone, opened fire on the Bedouin herdsmen and then made off with 18 camels.
In an incident near the Jordan frontier, a group of armed marauders crossed into Israel territory yesterday and drove off a flock of 64 sheep.
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