6th Airborne Storms Palestine Villages in Hunt for Terrorists

By United Press, Jerusalem

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“JERUSALEM, Nov. 26—British troops forced their way into two Jewish coastal villages with clubs and tear gas bombs today in search of Zionist terrorists who blew up two coast guard stations near Tel Aviv yesterday. Detachments of the Sixth Airborne Division were searching the villages of Shefayim and Givat-Hayim despite vigorous opposition from the Jewish settlers.

The troops trailed the terrorists from the wrecked stations last night but were blocked by hostile Jewish mobs at the outskirts. Both villages were surrounded and the British forced an entry this morning, injuring several Jews in the process. A lineup of all inhabitants failed to uncover the terrorists, but a British communique said the search was continuing.

Virtually all the Palestine coast was under curfew as a result of the new outbreak and British tanks and armored cars were joining in the manhunt. The attack on the stations was believed to have been in reprisal for the seizure of the Greek schooner Dimitrius off the Palestine coast with 20 illegal Jewish immigrants.”

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November 1945. The word is in the headline, unattributed, in the paper’s own voice, and it means Zionist paramilitaries. The village lineup, the curfew and the house searches are being done to Jewish villages by the British army.

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"6th Airborne Storms Palestine Villages in Hunt for Terrorists," Washington Daily News, 26 November 1945, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1945-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1945-004

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