The Israeli authorities have informed the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission that Israeli delegates will attend a subcommittee meeting discussing Jordanian complaints against Israel’s planting of trees in the no-man’s land area of Jerusalem.
Israeli sources, meanwhile, have denied that this is the first of a series of steps designed to bring Israel back into the MAC, which has been under Israel boycott since 1956.
The Israel Foreign Ministry has received no information so far from the Jordanian authorities on the Israeli man and woman kidnapped by Jordanians this week-end while they were bathing in the Gulf of Akaba off Elath. The hitch in communications, through the intermediation of the United Nations truce staff, has developed because Moslems are currently celebrating a three-day religious holiday.
(Information reaching London today from Jordan stated that the Jordanian authorities have admitted holding the two Israelis but claimed that they are not civilians and are, therefore, being held for interrogation.)
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