MIDDLE EAST: HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT IN SUEZ CANAL AREA AND UN OBSERVERS MOVE INTO POSITION.

Record ID: 375939

  • Title: MIDDLE EAST: HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT IN SUEZ CANAL AREA AND UN OBSERVERS MOVE INTO POSITION.
  • Date: 16th July 1967
  • Summary: ISRAELI FORCES; SMOKE; ARMOURED VEHICLE; GUN CREW; U.N. CARS; GENERAL MILITARY ACTIVITY. Initials JP/VS/CCT/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 31st July 1967 13:00
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  • Location: MIDDLE EAST
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA1LQR7TFSKG2U9T18GVBVUE1SI
  • Story Text: AN UNEASY CALM HAS SETTLED OVER THE SUEZ CANAL AREA AFTER TWO DAYS OF FIERCE AIR AND GROUND CLASHES BETWEEN EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI FORCES.

    UNITED NATIONS OBSERVERS ARE SURVEYING THE AREA AFTER A CEASE-FIRE WAS AGREED TO BY BOTH SIDES LATE LAST NIGHT (SATURDAY).

    THE FOUR U.N. OBSERVERS ARE FROM SWEDEN AND FRANCE. THEY WERE MOVING INTO POSITION YESTERDAY, ONLY HOURS AFTER HEAVY ARTILLERY EXCHANGES AND AIR BATTLES BETWEEN THE OPPOSING FORCES.

    EACH SIDE CLAIMED TO HAVE SHOT DOWN SIX OF EACH OTHER'S PLANES IN A SERIES OF DOG FIGHTS ALONG THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CANAL. TANK BATTLES AND HEAVY GROUND FIRE CEASED AT LATE EVENING AFTER CONTINUOUS FIGHTING THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

    THEN SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT (SATURDAY) THE UNITED NATIONS TRUCE SUPERVISOR, GENERAL ODD BULL, WAS REPORTED TO HAVE TOLD U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL, U THANT, THAT ISRAEL HAD REQUESTED A CEASE-FIRE. THE EGYPTIANS WERE TOLD AND THEY AGREED TO A HALT TO HOSTILITIES. THE TRUCE TOOK EFFECT SOON AFTERWARDS.
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