Israel has rejected renewed United Nations pressure for the establishment of UN observer posts in the demilitarized zone along the Syrian border, informed Israeli circles revealed tonight.
These same circles contrasted the UN’s unwillingness to consider Israel’s complaint against Syria under Article I of the armistice agreement which forbids threats of aggression as well as hostile acts.
However, UN headquarters here did promise to take steps to evict Syrian squatters on Israel soil northeast of Lake Huleh. The Syrian farmers and their families were supported by Syrian troops in their incursion into Israel.
Meanwhile, Col. Byron V. Leary, Acting Chief of Staff of the UN truce set-up, issued a formal denial of Syrian and Soviet claims that he had found French troops concentrating on Israel’s side of the Syrian border.
A series of incidents along Israel’s borders with Syria, Jordan and Egypt left one Arab infiltrator dead in an encounter with a border patrol and an Israeli Arab villager wounded by Jordanian marauders.
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