Israel has given permission for an Egyptian Army convoy to go from Gaza to Hebron today and to return two days later, it was announced last night.
The convoy, made up of eight three-ton trucks and four jeeps carrying 42 soldiers and four officers as well as a Moslem religious dignitary, will take back to Egypt the bodies of Egyptian soldiers killed in the Bethlehem-Hebron area during the fighting in 1948.
A joint Israel-Egyptian meeting scheduled to be held at Auja el Hafir was cancelled today without explanation. No new date for the meeting has been fixed nor was any explanation for the sudden cancellation given.
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