Tension mounted between Israel and Jordan today as the Jewish state lodged two new protests of armistice violations with the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission.
One of the protests concerned the land mining of an Israeli truck on Israeli territory by Arabs. The vehicle was demolished by a blast near Beit Jibrin, in southern Israel, and its driver, a civilian, was seriously injured. The second protest grew out of the capture on Israeli territory of an Arab who carried documents asking Jordan officers to assist him in infiltrating Israeli territory. The documents said that assistance was requested in the name of the Jordan Minister of Defense.
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