Two Israeli field workers were injured and hospitalized this morning when Jordanian guns opened fire on a group of Israelis tending crops in a field north of Shaar Hagolan in the Yarmuk river area. Israeli forces returned the fire in an exchange that began at 9:00 a.m. local time and lasted 10 minutes, a military spokesman reported. Fields on both sides of the cease-fire demarcation line were blackened as a result of Tuesday’s fierce artillery duels which set fire to ripening crops. Israelis had returned to their fields but not Jordanian farmers. Jordanian gun positions were also blackened by fires started by Israeli direct hits Tuesday. A Jordanian water conduit was damaged and a nearby area was flooded.
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