- Title: ISRAEL: GOVERNMENT MINISTERS SEE INJURED VICTIMS OF BORDER SHOOTING INCIDENT
- Date: 2nd June 1965
- Summary: 1. LV.DR BURG AND OTHERS WALK TOWARDS CAMERA 0.07 2. CU.CROSS 0.09 3. SV.FRENCH NOVICE (SLIGHTLY WOUNDED) SHAKES HANDS WITH DR. BURG 0.11 4. CU.MOTHER SUPERIOR 0.14 5. SV.NOVICE SPEAKS WITH DR. BURG 0.22 6. CU.WOUND ON GIRL'S LEG 0.25 7. SV.GIRL 0.27 8. LV.ST VINCENT'S CONVENT 0.30 9. SV.MRS. GOLDA MEIR TALKS T
- Embargoed: 17th June 1965 13:00
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- Location: ISRAELI SECTOR OF JERUSALEM
- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA9Q4U86F3ZKUBBQTUSN0DTN2BK
- Story Text: ISRAEL'S WELFARE MINISTER, DR. JOSEPH BURG, AND THE FOREIGN MINISTER, MRS. GOLDA MEIR ON TUESDAY VISITED THE INJURED VICTIMS OF MONDAY'S BORDER SHOOTING INCIDENT. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED CLOSE TO THE NOTRE DAME CONVENT IN JERUSALEM ON THE BORDER BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JORDAN.
A TEENAGE JEWISH GIRL AND A YOUNG CHRISTIAN ARAB CARPENTER DIED IN THE SHOOTING INCIDENT. FOUR WOMEN, INCLUDING TWO FRENCH WOMEN AND A NUN FROM ST. VINCENT DE PAUL HOSPITAL, WERE INJURED.
THE FATALLY-WOUNDED CARPENTER WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST WHILE WORKING IN THE CARPENTRY SHOP AT THE NOTRE DAME DE FRANCE CONVENT.
JORDAN CLAIMS THAT THE SHOOTING BEGAN AFTER AN ISRAELI FORCE CROSSED INTO NO-MAN'S-LAND IN JERUSALEM. ACCORDING TO THE JORDANIAN GOVERNMENT, THE FORCE DID NOT HEED A WARNING, AND JORDANIAN SOLDIERS INTERCEPTED THEM. THE RESULTING EXCHANGE OF FIRE LASTED ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES.
ISRAELI OFFICIALS CLAIM THE JORDAN "ATTACK" WAS PLANNED AND PREMEDITATED, THEY SAY THAT NOT A SINGLE SHOT WAS FIRED BY ISRAELI SOLDIERS.
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