Two infiltrators from Jordan were killed last night in a clash with an Israeli army unit in the central Negev and El Fatah raiders made their second attack with explosives on irrigation units in 48 hours, the Israeli army spokesmen reported today.
He said the infiltrators apparently were trying to smuggle goods from Jordan into Egypt via Israel. The El Fatah infiltrators set of a charge of explosives under an irrigation pipe near Kibbutz Metzer in Shomron just before midnight, damaging the pipe. As they retreated, the infiltrators opened fire on a kibbutz member on a tractor but he was not hurt. The scene of the attack was one mile from the Jordanian border. Footprints of two men were traced to the border. Israel filed a complaint with the United Nations Israeli-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission.
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