Military sources charged here tonight that the Jordanian Army was deliberately aiming at densely populated civilian centers in Israel in a campaign of artillery and mortar attacks that have been escalating since last June’s war. These sources noted that there were 91 acts of aggression by Jordan against Israel since June, perpetrated either by the Jordanian armed forces or by trained saboteurs, sheltered, supplied and aided by the army.
Most of these attacks have been in the Beisan Valley, south of the Sea of Galilee, which is almost the only area where Jordanian military positions face a large Israeli civilian population, the sources noted. The charges were confirmed by today’s events which saw large scale shelling of at least eight Israeli settlements along the Israel-Jordan demarcation line, the Jordan River.
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