Fighting broke out anew last night and this morning along the Israel-Jordan demarcation line in the Beisan Valley region. A Jordanian spokesman charged in a broadcast heard here that four Israeli jet fighters attacked in the area of the Sheikh Hussein Bridge for 25 minutes today, destroying one house but causing no casualties. There was no Israeli confirmation of the alleged air raid. Jordan claimed that the air attack followed a 10-minute duel between Jordanian troops and an Israeli halftrack near the Sheikh Hussein Bridge in which the halftrack was allegedly destroyed.
An Israeli military spokesman said Jordanian forces fired on Israeli positions and settlements in the Beisan area last night. A heavy exchange developed this morning when Jordanians fired bazookas at the Maoz Chaim region. Israeli artillery silenced the Jordanian positions. Large fires were seen from the Jordanian side, opposite Kfar Ruppin and Maoz Chaim, the Israeli military spokesman said. As a result of the shooting, settlers were forced to spend part of the morning in shelters. No casualties were reported.
The Palestine Liberation Organization in Amman claimed today that its guerrillas fought a rocket and machine gun battle with Israeli forces along the demarcation line Monday and inflicted four Israeli casualties while sustaining none of their own.
Beirut radio quoted newspaper accounts of a riot in Baghdad where Iraqi troops and tanks were called out to suppress a mob that was setting fire to municipal cars. The account did not specify the cause of the riot but speculated that it was the result of last week’s Israeli air strike against Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan.
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