Israeli forces repulsed a fifth Egyptian commando raid across the Suez Canal south of Qantara Friday night killing six Egyptians. Israelis also fought gun battles with guerrillas in the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and in the Jordan rift south of the Dead Sea over the weekend. Four potential saboteurs were killed in those clashes, a military spokesman said. Nine Israeli soldiers were injured Thursday night when their truck hit a mine south of El Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula. All were hospitalized and three were released almost immediately.
Jordanian forces fired bazooka shells at an Israeli patrol near Shaar Hagolan in the Beisan Valley today. Mortar and automatic fire was exchanged between Israeli and Jordanian forces near the Valley settlement of Kfar Ruppin last night. No Israeli casualties were reported in either incident. The semi-official Middle East News Agency in Cairo said Egyptian troops attacked an Israeli artillery outpost and munitions dump and rocket base near Port Fuad in the northwest Sinai yesterday. Syria claimed that an Israeli soldier was killed and an Israeli half track and an observation post were destroyed in a gun duel in the Golan Heights yesterday. Maj. Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev, Chief of Staff of Israel’s armed forces, said Friday that security forces had successfully foiled all attempts by saboteurs and terrorists to penetrate the country during its 21st anniversary celebrations. He attributed the successful preventive measures in large measure to the terrorists’ failure to enlist the support of the local Arab population in occupied territories.
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