Syrian gun positions opened fire today on the Shaar Yashuv settlement in Upper Galilee. There were no casualties and the Israelis did not return the Syrian fire.
The Israel-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission will meet tomorrow in emergency session to study a complaint by Israel that Syrian troops firing on Israeli workers in the demilitarized zone, on Israeli soil, killed one policeman and wounded a civilian two weeks ago. The Syrians are reported to have put a complaint of their own on the MAC agenda.
The unit was to have met on the complaint last week, but the Syrians called off the meeting on the grounds their chief delegate was ill. It is suspected here that the illness was diplomatic in origin and that the Syrians preferred not having Israel’s complaint aired while United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was in the Middle East.
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