Israel Air Force jets bombed and strafed Egyptian positions near the southern end of the Suez Canal today. It was the latest in a series of almost daily attacks on Egyptian military targets in the Canal Zone that began Nov.30. An Israeli military spokesman said all aircraft returned safely.
An Israeli soldier was killed and another was wounded near the Mandassah bridge yesterday as Israeli and Jordanian forces exchanged artillery and mortar fire across the Jordan River. Israeli planes blasted targets in Jordan yesterday. An Israeli spokesman said the shooting was started by the Jordanians who fired mortars and artillery at settlements in the Beisan Valley.
Israeli sources denied an Egyptian claim that one of its Russian-built MIGs shot down an Israeli F-4 Phantom jet in an aerial battle across the Suez Canal yesterday. An Israeli spokesman said that no battle took place.
Arab saboteurs blew up an electric nylon carrying high tension wires from Israel to the Gaza Strip. Two Arabs were injured in the blast, one of them a boy. Gaza was linked up with Israel’s power grid only a week ago, a move that was protested by Arab officials in Gaza. A search was made for the saboteurs as workers from the Israel Electric Corp. repaired the damage.
Israeli forces blew up three houses in Hebron yesterday that belonged to confessed saboteurs. At the same time, a stern warning was issued to the Arab elders of the town by the Israeli military governor, Lt. Col. Ofer Ben David. He said that Israeli forces would shoot at anyone who fired or threw grenades at them.
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