US and Iran trade fire as tensions rise over Strait of Hormuz
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Syria, Israel Exchange Fire
JERUSALEM, Mar. 20 CAP. Syrian shore gunners and an Israeli patrol boat exchanged fire briefly today at the Sea Of Galilee frontier. the focal point in an eight-hour battle Satur-. day. Two Israelis were wounded. Each side again blamed the other. Eat 1910 am. an Israeli boat approached the eastern coast of the Sea of Galilee to within 100 meters of the Syrian village of AL Kursi and opened ma chinegun and 20-mm. shell fire on the village" a Syrian army spokesman said. "The Syrian post at AL Kursi retaliated with intensive fire. scoring a direct hit on the boat and injuring two Of its soldiers. There were no casualties on our side" An Israeli army spokesman charged that the Syrians shot first. opening up with auto matte weapons and a recoilless gun. He said a police boat was on routine patrol along the eastern shores Of the Sea of Gallilee when 1t was fired on from Syrian positions north of the Nukev area-Scene of Satur- days battle, Israeli sources said. Observers reported that doz- ems of shells were seen splash ing near the police boat. A second Israeli police vessel, at the northeastern end of the sea. hurried to aid the first boat, and a third boat was sent from Liberals to take over the two wounded and rush them ashore for disqualification.
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1963 Syrian coup d'état
The first act of the new rulers of Syria was to establish the twenty-man National Council for the Revolutionary Command (NCRC), composed of twelve Ba'athists and eight Nasserists and independents. It was a military junta created to rule Baathist Syria.
Wikipedia →1964 Arab League summit (Cairo)
The 1964 Arab League summit was the first summit of the Arab League, held in Cairo, Egypt, on 13–16 January 1964 and attended by all thirteen of the then member states. At the summit, it was decided to carry out planning to resolve inter-Arab conflicts and to adopt common principles regarding opposition to imperialism and Israel's diversion of the Jordan River waters, which multiplied the dangers to Arab existence.
Wikipedia →War over Water (Jordan River)
The Arab states accepted that they were not able to halt the Carrier scheme by direct military action, and instead formed a plan to divert the Jordan River headwaters to the Yarmouk River. The scheme was technically difficult and expensive, but if it had succeeded, it would have diverted 35% of the water that Israel intended to withdraw from the upper Jordan. Israel declared that it would regard the diversion as an infringement of its sovereign rights.
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