The Israel government issued a statement here last night, citing a recent list of violent incidents against Israeli installations in the occupied Golan Heights which observers said was tantamount to a warning to the Syrian regime.
The statement said Israel was taking a “grave view” of “the escalation” of such incidents, with particular emphasis on the latest firing of more than 12 mortar shells on Monday and yesterday in the Nahal Golan area. The statement said the mortar shooting climaxed increased activities along the cease-fire line, asserting that 22 incidents had been recorded since June.
Among those incidents, the statement said, were acts of sabotage, light arms firing, bazooka shelling, Katyusha rocket shooting, aerial penetration by five Syrian Soviet-made MIGs and crossing by Syrian soldiers into Israeli-held territories. Israel has suffered one soldier killed and two wounded in the incidents. All of the incidents, the statement declared, were either directed by guerrillas or by the Syrian Army.
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