Evening star., 1951-04-06
Israel Has No Intention
'0f Warning on Syria,
Ben-Guriion Says
BY the Associated Press

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declared today that Israel has mo
intention of waging war against
Syria"
| He spoke at a luncheon given
by Tel Aviv industrialists after
United States Ambassador Mon
nett B. Davis and French Minis
ter Felix Edouard Guillon had
voiced to the Israeli Foreign Of
flee their grave concern regard
ing very serious situation"
Dispatches from Tiberias, on
the west shore of Lake Tiberias
(the Sea of Galilee) on the Is
raeli-Syrian border, said tension
there was high. United Nations
observers were taking a serious
view of the situation, fearing
Syria might retaliate for the
bombing of her troops yesterday
by the Israeli air force.
Syrian Invasion Charged.
Israel charged that Syrians in
vaded a demilitarized strip of
border territory Wednesday, killed
seven Israeli policemen, wounded
two and captured one.
Mr.. Ben-Gurion said the bomb
ing of Syrian military positions
both in the demilitarized zone and
a short distance inside Syria was
ordered after United Nations rep
resentatives had shown their in
ability to preserve the demili-
tarized character of two zones
one north and the other southeast
of Lake Tiberias.
He added that a number of
abandoned Arab houses which
had served as hideouts for at
tackers'' in the zones also were
demolished by Israeli police last
night.
AA Batteries Installed.
"a Syrian army spokesman
at Damacus said the houses were
blown up at MaZraat, Elkhoury,
and Baqqara in the disputed
Huleh drainage project district
north of Tiberias, and at Negeib,
southeast of the lake. The
spokesman charged the action
showed the Jews were continu-
ing to use the demilitarized zone
as if it were their own.
Damascus dispatches said
antiaircraft batteries were in
stalled on the outskirts of the
Syrian capital today.)
Dispatches from Tiberias said
the whole border was in a state
of preparedness lest the Palestine
war break out anew. U. N. OBJ
servers, charged with supervising
the 1948 Jewish-Arab armistice
feared their staff was not bic
enough to cope with the situation
The Israeli bombing, it was re-
ported here, caused major dam
age to the border center of e.
HANNA. the village of Babel
Hadid and Syrian positions in
those areas.
Reinforcements Reported Sent.
1t was also reported, however
that Syrian reinforcements were
being sent to the Ell HANNA area
In Tel Aviv an official Israeli
spokesman said the bombing had
been completely successful" He
listed as targets the Ell HANNA
police station and "a number of
fortified positions a few meters
inside Syrian territory proper
from where the Israeli policemen
were fired on and killed"
At United Nations headouar-
ters, in New York. Abba s. Eban
permanent Israeli representative
to the U. NJ, handed a letter tc
the Security Council drawing 1t.
attention to the border clashes as
a matter of urgency.
He described the Syrian actions
as deliberate and fragrant viola
tions of the armistice agreement
OF 1948 which followed the Arab
Jewish Palestine war.
Earlier this week, Syria sent q
letter to the Security Council
charging that Israel had violated
the armistice by it's activities in
the demilitarized border zone.