- Title: OCCUPIED JORDAN: SHELL DAMAGE TO ISRAELI VILLAGES ON WEST BANK OF RIVER JORDAN
- Date: 4th December 1968
- Summary: SOLDIERS; SHELTERS; CLEARING UP DAMAGE; MARKED BUILDINGS. Initials GEP/VS/JH/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 19th December 1968 13:00
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- Location: OCCUPIED JORDAN
- Country: Jordan
- Reuters ID: LVA2YKIPRV9JS7TPFUQ0D59L255L
- Story Text: THE INHABITANTS OF NINE JEWISH VILLAGES IN ISRAELI OCCUPIED AREAS OF THE JORDAN AND BEISAN VALLEYS SHELTERED FROM SHELL FIRE FOR THE THREE HOURS EARLY YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY) MORNING. THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES, BUT BUILDINGS AND AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT WERE DAMAGED.
ISRAELI OFFICIAL SOURCES CLAIM THAT SOME OF THE SHELLS WERE FROM SOVIET-MADE GUNS USED BY IRAQI UNITS STATIONED IN THE IRBID AREA OF JORDAN, AND THAT THE SHELLING WAS THE WORK OF REGULAR FORCES, BOTH JORDANIAN AND IRAQI UNITS, STATIONED IN THE TERRITORY. THEY SAID THE GUNS WERE RANGED TO HIT VILLAGES TO A DEPTH OF SIX MILES (10 KMS.) WEST OF THE CEASE-FIRE LINE.
IN THE DAMAGED KIBBUTZIM AT HEMEDYA, MAOZ HAYIM AND TEL KATZIR THE INHABITANTS SET IMMEDIATELY TO WORK TO CLEAR UP THE DAMAGE AND EXTEND THE UNDERGROUND SHELTERS AND SLIT TRENCHES. ARMY PATROLS MENDED THE DAMAGED POWER LINES.
THE SHELLING OF THE VILLAGES ON THE WEST BANK OF THE JORDAN WAS ONE OF THE EARLY INCIDENTS IN A RENEWED ARAB-ISRAELI ARTILLERY DUEL ALONG A 25 MILE (40 KM.) FRONT. THE FIGHTING INCLUDED ISRAEL AIR ATTACKS ON JORDANIAN GUN EMPLACEMENTS.
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