ISRAEL BORDER INCIDENTS
Truce Supervisor’s Report JERUSALEM, July 11. Major-General Vagn Bennike, Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation, today put forward a five-point plan to end incidents on the Israel-Jordan border. He was presenting an 85-page report to the Israel-Jordon Mixed Armistice Commission on last month’s three-day battle in Jerusalem between Arab and Israeli troops in which nine died and 52 were wounded. General Bennike suggested that the commission should not attempt to lay the blame on either side for starting last month’s incident. The aim was to reach agreement on measures to prevent a recurrence of the incidents. General Bennike presided at the meeting, held in Jerusalem’s “No Man’s Land” in the war-scarred Mandelbaum Gate square. His proposals were: The establishment of adequate officers and non-commissioned officers to supervise the frontier guards. A firm undertaking to refrain from any retaliatory fire. No sniping. Prompt disciplinary action against any violation of the cease fire order. Sincere efforts to reduce the tension. General Bennike began by saying that both sides had broken the cease fire agreement.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27400, 13 July 1954, Page 11
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