Jordan complained to the Security Council here today against what it called “acts of aggression” by Israel. Jordan claimed that, in Israel’s raids into Jordanian territory, last Friday night, eight civilians had been killed, four civilians and two soldiers were wounded, 19 houses were blown up, and a Jordanian police station was attacked.
The complaint, handed here today by Jordan’s Ambassador Muhammad H. El Farra to Dr. J.G. de Beus, of the Netherlands, this month’s president of the Security Council, did not call for a session of the Council on the issue but “reserved” the Jordanian rights to seek such a meeting “to adopt adequate measures to assure cessation of these acts of aggression.”
Israel had announced last weekend that it had raided two Jordanian villages in reprisal against repeated, recent sabotage raids by members of El Fatah, the Arab terrorist group.
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