Israel sent today a letter to the president of the Security Council, Ambassador M. Kamanda va Kamanda of Zaire, drawing his attention to an infiltration of two terrorists last Friday night from Jordan to Israel. The two terrorists were captured by Israeli soldiers in the Jordan valley and were identified as members of El Fatah, the military arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The letter, written by Israel’s Ambassador Yehuda Blum, concluded by stating: “This act once again testifies to the criminal character of the terrorist PLO which is bent on the deliberate indiscriminate murder of civilians irrespective of nationality and creed.”
LEBANON CHARGES ISRAELI TROOP CONCENTRATION
Meanwhile, Lebanon sent a letter to the Security Council, dated April 10 but circulated here today, charging “massive Israeli troop concentrations” on the Lebanese-Israeli border. The letter, by Ambassador Ghassan Tueni of Lebanon, said that the concentration of troops by Israel violated the 1949 armistice between the two countries.
The Lebanese envoy stated: “Massing of troops which has been taking place during the post few days, widely publicized, had been preceded and is now accompanied by official Israeli threats against the territorial integrity of Lebanon, in total violation of the UN charter and the most elementary principles of international law.”
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