JORDAN: ISRAELI TROOPS CAPTURE JENIN IN DRIVE ON JORDANIAN FRONTIER.

Record ID: 399420

  • Title: JORDAN: ISRAELI TROOPS CAPTURE JENIN IN DRIVE ON JORDANIAN FRONTIER.
  • Date: 7th June 1967
  • Summary: JEEPS AND TANKS MOVE INTO JENIN; GENERAL SCENES OF OCCUPATION. Initials DHC/VS/BH/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd June 1967 13:00
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  • Location: JENIN, JORDAN
  • Country: Jordan
  • Reuters ID: LVA424IQNS8PZ9HWJ9G2TERCJKWX
  • Story Text: ISRAELI FORCES HAVE TAKEN THE TOWN OF JENIN, IN THE NORTH OF JORDAN. THE CAPTURE FOLLOWED A PROTRACTED AND VICIOUS TANK BATTLE BETWEEN JORDANIAN AND ISRAELI FORCES OUTSIDE THE TOWN. OUR FILM WAS SHOT IN JENIN DURING OCCUPATION BY ISRAELI FORCES.

    JENIN IS ONLY FIVE MILES (EIGHT KMS) FROM THE BORDER OF ISRAEL AND JORDAN. THE BATTLE FOR THE TOWN REACHED ITS PEAK ABOUT MID-DAY YESTERDAY (TUESDAY), WHEN JORDANIAN FORCES WERE CLAIMING TO HAVE REPULSED THE ISRAELI ATTACK.

    BUT SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE ISRAELIS PRESSED THEIR TANK OFFENSIVE AND BY LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON INFANTRY, TANKS AND JEEPS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE STREETS OF JENIN.

    THE JORDANIAN STATEMENT SAID THE ISRAELIS HAD LAUNCHED A WIDESCALE ATTACK IN THE JENIN AREA "WITH A FORCE FOUR TIMES THE STRENGTH OF OURS".

    AS THE JORDANIAN STATEMENT WAS ANNOUNCING: "THE ENEMY LOST HEAVILY IN CASUALTIES AND EQUIPMENT", A COMMUNIQUE IN TEL AVIV WAS REPORTING THE CAPTURE OF THE TOWN.

    APART FROM TANK AND INFANTRY FIGHTING, THE BATTLE FOR JENIN ALSO INVOLVED AIR-TO-AIR COMBAT.
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