Israel was reliably reported today to have agreed to a month’s extension of the agreement stationing United Nations observers on the Israeli side of the Syrian border.
The original agreement to accept UN observers was made when the Syrians stepped up incursions and shootings in what Israeli officials thought might be a deliberate attempt to provoke Israeli retaliation. This strategy was laid to the Syrian internal political situation.
UN Truce headquarters asked Israel for extension of the agreement and Israel agreed, reportedly both for local security reasons and to avoid new friction with the UN whose General Assembly is being convened next month.
Israeli sources cited UN “impotence” in relation to the Arabs. They stressed the fact that the Truce Supervisory Organization has been unable to obtain permission to station observers on the Syrian side of the border.
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