Israel today filed with the Security Council a sharp complaint against Jordan, charging the Arab Government with serious violations of the Jordan-Israel armistice agreement and with endangering the peace of the area. Israel revealed at the same time that saboteurs obviously being sheltered by Jordan have carried out three separate efforts at terrorism inside Israel in the last two months.
The complaint was lodged by Israel’s permanent representative here. Ambassador Michael S. Comay. The Israel representative requested that his letter of protest be circulated to all members of the Security Council, but avoided asking that the Council convoke any sessions on the issue.
According to the letter, an attack very early yesterday morning at Kfar Hess, in Israel central area, about five miles from the Jordanian border, was only one of a series of similar recent efforts. At Kfar Hess, two separate explosions damaged the small farm settlement’s silo and blew up part of a house where members of the settlement were asleep. No one was injured. Israeli border patrols and army units traced the tracks of three men back to the Jordanian frontier.
On January 7, Mr. Comay reported, a group of armed infiltrators was intercepted by an Israeli patrol near Nechushan, another village, remote from Kfar Hess and less than two miles from the Jordanian border. One of the infiltrators was wounded and captured, while the others escaped across the frontier. The man caught admitted under interrogation by United Nations military observers that he was a member of a unit of anti-Israeli saboteurs at work inside Jordan. He had explosive hidden in his gear when captured.
On January 21, Mr. Comay continued, explosives were discovered in place at the water dam in the new town of Arad. Both Arad, which is about 12 miles from Jordan and overlooks the Dead Sea, and Nechushan are in the Hebron area.
All these acts and efforts, Mr. Comay complained, are “gross violations” of the Jordan-Israel armistice agreement of 1949 and “endanger peace in the area.” The Government of Jordan, he stated in his letter, “must accept full responsibility” for the activities of the sabotage groups in its area.
It is believed here that the saboteurs from Jordan are members of a group called the Fatah, comprised of so-called Arab refugees working under the domination of the Unified Arab Command established to carry out systematic attacks against Israel.
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