The Voice of Israel, government radio, reported here today that Israeli citizens last night blew up a main water-pumping station on the Egyptian side of the Gaza strip, in retaliation for an Egyptian explosion of an Israeli water main. The Israeli water main was blown up last Thursday, and Israeli Army spokesmen said they had proof that the damage was done by graduates of an Egyptian commando training school across the border.
According to the broadcast, the avenging Israelis surrounded the Egyptian water pumping station during the night, drove out the maintenance crew, and blew up the building. The pumping station had supplied water to Egyptian army camps in the vicinity. (Cairo dispatches reported that the Egyptian Government lodged a com-plaint about this explosion with the United Nations Mixed Armistice Commission.)
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