ISRAEL: DAMAGED SAID TO BE CAUSED BY SYRIAN ATTACK

Record ID: 276679

  • Title: ISRAEL: DAMAGED SAID TO BE CAUSED BY SYRIAN ATTACK
  • Date: 11th January 1967
  • Summary: DAMAGED AT KIBBUTZ TEL KATZIR SAID TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY SYRIAN FIRE. Initials AA/V--S/MR/JG Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th January 1967 12:00
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  • Location: ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVAEBKG5QPHF3SNM1H2VSS5JHOSU
  • Story Text: THERE WAS A NEW FLARE-UP IN THE ISRAEL-SYRIA BORDER DISPUTE YESTERDAY (MONDAY), WHEN TANKS WERE USED AGAINST EACH OTHER. AS ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN SAID THAT TOW SYRIAN TANKS WERE SET ON FIRE AND A THIRD WAS HIT. A SYRIAN SPOKESMAN SAID ONE ISRAELI TANK WAS DESTROYED AND THERE HAD PROBABLY BEEN LOSS OF LIFE ON THE ISRAELI SIDE. LATER, AT THE UNITED NATIONS, ISRAEL ACCUSED SYRIA OF AGGRESSION.

    ISRAEL SAID THAT SYRIA OPENED FIRE ON THE KIBBUTZ TEL KATZIR YESTERDAY (MONDAY). FIVE MINUTES LATER ISRAELI TANKS RETURNED THE FIRE, ACCORDING TO THE ISRAELI REPORTS, AND SCORED DIRECT HITS ON TWO SYRIAN TANKS, AND DAMAGED A THIRD.

    SYRIA ACCUSED ISRAELI FORCES OF OPENING FIRE ON ARAB CITIZENS AND ALSO FIRING ON SYRIAN AN MILITARY OUTPOSTS, A MILITARY SPOKESMAN IN DAMASCUS SAID THAT SYRIAN GUNS RETURNED THE FIRE, DESTROYING AN ENEMY TANK. THE SYRIANS SUFFERED NO CASUALTIES, HE ADDED.

    THE TANK DUEL LASTED ONLY 15 MINUTES, BUT SHOOTING ACROSS THIS EXPLOSIVE FRONTIER RUMBLED ON FOR FOUR HOURS BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS TRUCE SUPERVISION ORGANISATION FINALLY ARRANGED A CEASEFIRE.
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