Israeli patrols were attacked this morning and last night but no casualties were reported. A patrol was attacked near Neve Urr in the Beisan Valley this morning with mortars and small arms fire. The fire was returned. The second patrol was ambushed in the center of the Golan Heights without casualties. Gesher settlement was attacked with rocket fire from Jordanian territory last night. The fire was returned. There were no casualties or damage reported. Yesterday, a single shot was fired by an Egyptian soldier across the Suez Canal. No one was hurt and the fire was not returned. In Gaza, a local Arab was severely injured this morning when a grenade was thrown at an Israeli civilian car and missed. The occupants of the car were not injured. Several arrests were made and a search for terrorists was continuing in the neighborhood.
(Yasir Arafat, Palestinian guerrilla chief, said yesterday in a speech at a graduation ceremony for new guerrilla fighters that “we shall turn Jordan into a graveyard for plotters.” The graduates applauded loudly when he added: “Amman shall be the Hanoi of the Middle East.” The leader of El Fatah said he anticipated renewed fighting between his guerrillas and the Jordanian army and claimed that four brigades of the Jordanian army were encircling Amman as a prelude to a crackdown on the guerrillas during the cease-fire. “The political solution will never pass through but will be defeated by our rifles,” he warned. “This nation never bent down to the Crusaders or the Tartars and certainly will not do so to the Zionists.”) (In Cairo, the semi-official newspaper A1Ahram reported that Egypt has asked 140 Palestinian students who are members of guerrilla groups hostile to the U.S. peace initiative to leave the country. At the same time, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine which is headed by Dr. George Habbash announced that its guerrillas had “liquidated” 10 persons accused of collaboration with Israeli occupation authorities in the Gaza Strip.)
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