Israel warned the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization today that further attacks by Syria against Israel’s northern border “will be met by force.” The warning was given to Gen. Odd Bull, chief of staff of the UN organization, by an official of Israel’s Foreign Ministry who invited Gen. Bull to come to the Ministry to discuss the grave situation on the northern frontier.
Syria has been firing from automatic weapons almost every day this week, directing the shells at tractors in the fields near the settlement of Haon, on the shore of Lake Tiberias. There have been at least two attacks of this kind during most of the week.
The Foreign Ministry official told Gen. Bull that Israel takes a very grave view of these attacks. He noted that Israel did not return the fire after any of these persistent attacks. He underscored the fact that Israel complained to the UN Israeli-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission after each of the attacks, and stated flatly that Israel cannot continue assuming a passive role in the face of these repeated Syrian provocations.
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