Chicago Defender · 4 December 1937
CP-1937-014
British Troops Blow Up Arab Homes in Palestine
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BRITISH TROOPS BLOW UP ARAB HOMES IN PALESTINE JERUSALEM, Dee. 3.-Jerusalem / and Jews, but there must be recog- remained for some time a city of nition of the principle of the in- curfew and the scene of disorders.
Palestine. violability of the Arab majority in At Lydda, where the finest aero- He denied that foreign countries drome in the Near East is a mass of were supporting the Palestine Arabs, smouldering ruins, townsfolk are except neighboring Arab countries. only allowed to enter the streets for which had contributed several two hours in every 24.
British thousands pounds towards the cost troops have blown up houses at of the higher committee's propa- Lydda as a punitive measure, and ganda. the tine of $25,000 imposed during Arab Committee Reorganized the 1936 riots has been ordered to be! With the Mufti are Emir Shekib collected. Arsian and Emir Amin Arslan, The firing of the Ara
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"British Troops Blow Up Arab Homes in Palestine," Chicago Defender, 4 December 1937. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1937-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1937-014
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