An urgently summoned special session of the Israel Cabinet discussed the third hit and run Arab attack from Jordan territory oh Israeli villages in less than three days since the signing of a pact between Israel and Jordan designed to decrease border tension and combat infiltration through joint meetings of local commanders of both sides.
Immediately after the Cabinet meeting, Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett called United Nations truce chief Gen. William E. Riley to Jerusalem to discuss the situation.
A military spokesman in Tel Aviv, reporting the incident, said that a gang of murderous raided the village of Kfar Hess, in central Israel near. Jordan territory killed one Jewish woman and wounded her husband and then withdrew. The spokesman pointed out that it was quite obvious that the reason for the hit and run attacks was not robbery, as claimed by Jordan. He insisted that the three attacks on three successive nights prove that the Jordanians cannot or are not interested in preventing infiltration.
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