The current Security Council session on the Middle East situation was adjourned tonight until 4 p.m. Thursday after continued debate in which Arab and pro-Arab delegates repeated a variety of familiar anti-Israel complaints and Israel vigorously rejected the charges. The meeting was the third since Israel and Jordan clashed in a day-long battle last Friday, and called for the session.
The Indian delegate, Gopalawaski Parthasarathi, declared that until Israel withdrew from the occupied territories, there could be no hope for peace in the Middle East. The Arab delegates again charged Israel with “genocide” and alleged plans to “destroy” the Arab residents of the occupied sectors.
No substantive proposals were brought up at the afternoon session today. The United States proposed at a previous meeting that United Nations observers be stationed on the Israel-Jordan demarcation line, a proposal about which Israel reportedly was dubious and which Jordan rejected yesterday at the Council.
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