Jordanian sources asserted today that Israel has indicated new policy of dealing with terrorism by planting mines on the Jordanian side of the cease-fire line, according to dispatches received here from Amman. Israeli forces which entered Jordan yesterday in pursuit of terrorists sowed the cease-fire area with mines, a Jordanian spokesman said. He said that two Jordanian mining technicians were killed and a third wounded when a mine exploded this morning.
The Jordanian spokesman said. this was the first known instance in which Israelis had planted mines across the cease-fire line. The area of the fighting yesterday below the Dead Sea was “infested” with mines, he said.
Observers in Amman said today’s mine explosion was the new Israeli method of retaliating for similar mining by El Fatah inside Israel. The Jordanians were hit when their vehicle detonated an anti-vehicle mine.
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