Two Israelis died on the Gulf of Akaba today, victims of Jordanian bullets fired from an Arab gunboat.
The two Israelis set out in a small motorboat to catch an empty skiff which had drifted away from the port of Elath. When the motorboat was several miles from shore on the “open seas” of the Gulf, a Jordanian patrol boat sped up and opened fire with a machine gun.
Later, an Israeli naval patrol craft found the civilian boat drifting with one bullet riddled body crumpled on the bottom and the second one apparently knocked out of the craft by the impact of the steel jacketed bullets.
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