A Syrian infiltrator was killed and an Israeli soldier was slightly wounded in two separate clashes that took place last night in the Beisan Valley, and in the area of the Goland Heights near the Israel-Syrian cease-fire line.
The soldier was wounded in a heavy exchange of fire that was begun by Jordanians at about 10 o’clock last night and lasted for half an hour. The Jordanians used small arms and mortars against an Israeli patrol on the West Bank of the Jordan, in the Beisan Valley. The Israelis returned the fire and silenced the Jordanian guns.
Earlier in the evening, an Israeli patrol intercepted an armed group about two miles west of the Israel-Syrian cease-fire line, and killed one of its members in an exchange of fire. The dead Syrian was in possession of a Russian-made Klatchnikoff assault gun.
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