An investigating team headed by a United Nations observer and including Israeli personnel were fired on today during its investigation of the ambushing of several Israeli vehicles in the Wadi Arra in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The investigators were fired on several times this afternoon by troops stationed inside Jordan. Firing ended only after a UN observer arrived on the Jordan side and established contact with the team inside Israel. The trackers found evidence of three men having fled into Jordan after the ambush in which one civilian was wounded and an Israeli police car was hit by bullets. Israel has demanded the convening of an emergency meeting of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission.
Meanwhile, several infiltrators from Egyptian territory bordering on Israel in the Negev were wounded today by an Israeli patrol which discovered them harvesting in fields sown by Israeli settlers. As the patrol moved to intercept the infiltrators, Egyptian positions across the border opened fire. The Israelis returned the fire and the infiltrators fled. Several of them were hit, but their comrades were seen to be helping them across the border.
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