The Israel Government this week-end de###### special session of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission to con###### Jordan authorities’ attempts to deceive United Nations teams investigating on the Israel-Jordan border. The Israelis also demanded suspension of the ######ties of the inquiry teams in view of the possibility of the Arabs continuing attempts at trickery.An Israeli spokesman explained that when a UN team checked into Jordan that Israeli forces had attacked an Arab village at Beth Iksa two weeks ago shown a trail of blood inside Jordan. The Jordanians claimed that it was of an Israeli hit during the alleged raid. Upon investigation at the Israelis of Health laboratories blood-stained rocks removed from this trail were ###### have been stained by the blood of cattle, not of human beings.
The Israeli spokesman underlined the fact that the UN armistice unit ###### in the past year or so condemned the Jordanians for similar attempts to ###### UN truce machinery.
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