The situation in the Huleh region of northeastern Israel where Israeli and Syrian troops face each other across the Jordan River remained tense today as the Israeli-Syrian Armistice Commission cancelled its scheduled meeting at the last minute. Drainage operations were halted by Israel this morning for technical reasons, but is expected to resumed by tomorrow morning at the latest.
An Israeli worker who was wounded by Syrian troops yesterday as the Jews began the reclamation project in earnest, died this morning of his wounds. A policeman, who was a member of a detachment evacuating the injured worker under a white flag, was hit when the party came under Arab fire. The ambulance in which the worker was being removed was hit by 30 bullets and wrecked.
The Arab press in Jordan territory reports that the Jordan Government has complained to the Mixed Armistice Commission that Israel does not permit Arab shepherds and Trappist monks to use a well which is located in Israeli territory near Latrun. The press also asserts that Egypt has protested to the U.N. against Israel’s “unlawful conquest” of Elath, on the Gulf of Akaba, which, although admittedly not in Egyptian possession when the Israelis moved into the area, is claimed to have been “under Egyptian jurisdiction.”
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