The Israel-Egyptian Mixed Armistice Commission received a report from United Nations observers today supporting Israeli complaints that 5,000 Bedouins from the Sinai desert, which is Egyptian territory, had illegally crossed into Israel territory. The U.N. observers declared that the Bedouins had not originally come from Israel territory and must return to Egypt. The commission, however, did not reach a decision on the question.
The commission struck from its agenda an Egyptian complaint that Israel had forcibly expelled Arabs from Majdal to Egyptian-held territory in southern Palestine. The chairman declared it had been established that these Arabs had asked to be reunited with their families in Gaza.
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