Just two days after last week’s extraordinary meeting of the Syrian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission, at which Syria and Israel pledged efforts to prevent acts of violence against each other, a freshly-laid mine was found on a patrol track near the Syrian border. An Israeli communique said that an anti-vehicle mine was found and dismantled Friday near the Syrian positions of Tel Azzaziat and Nabi Huda. Tracks of one man, in both directions, were found.
Political observers said the new mine might indicate a desire by the Syrians to decline responsibility for the activities in Israel of El Fatah and other Arab terrorist groups. The observers cited the refusal of Syrian authorities to accept the body of a maurauder who was apparently killed while planting mines near Dishon. They said that refusal could be another indication of Syrian rejection of responsibility for Arab terrorist group activity, After the Syrians declined to accept the body, plans were made to inter it in a Moslem cemetery in Israel.
In the South of Israel, in the Beth Jubrin area, near Jordan, another landmine apparently laid by Arab infiltrators, was found by the Israelis today and dismantled without harm, Israel filed a complaint with the Israeli-Jordanian Mixed Armistice Commission. The mine is believed to have been placed at the spot several days ago but showed up today because recent heavy rains had eroded some of the earth in which the explosive had been planted.
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