Maj. Gen. E.L.M Burns, United Nations truce chief in Palestine conferred today with Joseph Tekoa, Israel’s representative to the Israel-Egyptian talks on pacification of the Gaza border.
The two men discussed the erection of a barbed wire barrier along the frontier and the establishment of a no-man’s land zone on both sides of the frontier both suggestions originally put forward by Gen. Burns and endorsed by the Security Council.
Gen Burns is scheduled to proceed to Cairo Wednesday to continue this discussion with the Nasser regime. Last week Gen. Burns opened this discussion with Mr. Tekoa and then went to Cairo to talk of the matter with the Egyptians who disrupted the first set of Gaza talks last month.
The Israel-Egyptian Mixed Armistice Commission, meanwhile, condemned Egypt today for an incident on August 26 when a band of six to eight “well trained” infiltrators crossed the Gaza border into Israel near the settlement of Erez. The band attacked a jeep with hand grenades and automatic weapons and killed an Israel civilian. Later it laid nine landmines which were subsequently uncovered. The MAC decision today noted that the raid violated the armistice agreement and charged that it was planned by Egyptian Army authorities. The MAC demanded that Egypt put an end to such incidents.
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