The Israeli Army Engineers have almost completed fortifications on the Golan Heights and are moving most of their equipment to Sinai to complete fortifications there, it was learned today. The projects, which are being carried out with the assistance of civilian contractors, cost hundreds of millions of Pounds.
The work on the Golan Heights includes the construction of dense-series of strong points. antitank ditches, mine fields and winter quarters for troops. In Sinai, the static defense strategy represented by the Barlev Line has been abandoned for mobile defense. Nevertheless, fortified positions are being built and anti-tank ditches and mine-fields being spread all along the 100-mile front.
EGYPT VIOLATING AGREEMENT
Israel complained to the United Nations Truce Observers Force yesterday that Egypt is violating the disengagement agreement by digging trenches in the limited armaments zone which could be used for missile launching sites and command posts, UN officers were reportedly investigating the charge. It was recalled here that Egypt started to assemble pre-fabricated surface-to-air missile sites in the zone before the disengagement agreement with Israel was signed last January. After Israel protested, the Egyptians demolished the sites.
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