- Title: ISRAEL: DOWNED SYRIAN MIG FIGHTER PUT ON DISPLAY BY ISREALIS
- Date: 28th August 1966
- Summary: POLICE STATION IN TIBERIAS WITH JOURNALISTS INSPECTING WRECKAGE OF MIG FIGHTER; POLICEMAN POINTS OUT BULLET HOLES; DAMAGED ISRAELI PATROL BOAT WITH SHELL AND BULLET HOLES. Initials HT/VS/CR/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 12th September 1966 13:00
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- Location: TIBERIAS, ISRAEL
- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA64ELLGTG50UXW559V3PE4MIH4
- Story Text: WRECKAGE OF A SYRIAN MIG-17 FIGHTER, WHICH WAS SHOT DOWN OVER LAKE TIBERIAS BY THE ISREALIS ON AUGUST 15TH DURING AN INCIDENT WHEN AN ISRAELI POLICE BOAT WAS DAMAGED ON THE SEA OF GALILEE BY SYRIAN GUNFIRE, WAS PUT ON SHOW IN TIBERIAS YESTERDAY (SATURDAY).
THE ISRAELI SALVAGE OPERATIONS TO RECOVER THE DAMAGED PATROL BOAT BEGAN ON THURSDAY, FOLLOWING AN AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL AFTER NEGOTIATIONS BY THE UNITED NATIONS CHIEF TRUCE SUPERVISOR, LIEUTENANT GENERAL ODD BULL.
ISRAEL CLAIMS THE BOAT CAME UNDER FIRE AFTER RUNNING AGROUND NINE DAYS AGO. THIS SPARKED OFF AN INCIDENT IN WHICH ISRAEL SAID SHE HAD SHOT DOWN TWO SYRIAN AIRCRAFT, AND SYRIA CLAIMED SHE HAD DESTROYED THREE ISRAELI PATROL BOATS.
MEANWHILE IT WAS ANNOUNCED IN DAMASCUS THAT SYRIA HAD RECOVERED THE WRECKAGE OF THE DOWNED MIG-17 AND ALSO THE BODY OF THE PILOT. AN ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN WOULD NOT COMMENT ON THE DAMASCUS REPORT.
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