Renewed Syrian attacks on Israeli field workers south of Lake Tiberias resulted in instructions today to Michael Comay, Israel’s United Nations delegation head, to convey to UN Secretary General U Thant Israel’s “grave concern” over the attacks.
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion conferred with Israel Chief of Staff Major General Zvi Tsur over the renewed gunfire and the issue also was taken up yesterday by Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, when she received Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, the new chief of the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization.
Political sources here expressed anxiety over the new Syrian attacks which were aimed at fields in the demilitarized zone which had never been fired on before and which are clearly inside Israeli territory. The fieldworkers were fired on at Shaar Hagolan. The Syrians apparently were determined to do their utmost to prevent cultivation of a land parcel. No casualties were reported in the attack yesterday.
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