Israeli and Iraqi liaison officers met today in the presence of United Nations truce observers in the vicinity of Kfar Yavetz, east of Nathanya, to settle a number of local problems, it was officially announced here.
Several new Druze units were today sworn into the Israeli Army at a ceremony at an army came near Haifa. Attending the exercises were Israeli Minister for Minorities Behor Shitreet and Druze Sheikh Soliman el Arif. Druze leader Yusef Bey Hasanali, a former major in the Transjordan Frontier Force, which was once staffed almost completely by Druze troops, addressed the new Israeli soldiers and congratulated them. Soliman praised the relationship between the Jews and the Druzes.
Egyptian troops last night withdrew from Tel el Fara, a settlement in the Negey which they captured from the Israelis November 21, in violation of the Security Council truce, an official Israeli communique stated.
The Egyptian action followed an attack on Egyptian sappers last night by Jewish patrols. The sappers, operating out of Tel el Fara and two other points captured during the truce breach–Khirbet el Main and Sheikh Nuran–mined the Jewish-held read from Mivtachim to Nirim to Imara and out several water pipes in the area.
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