Holy Land Village Attacked

The Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“Jewish armed forces attacked Silwan village just southeast of Jerusalem, Friday night by moonlight, supposedly to avenge an Arab raid last week on a Mount of Olives…”

Context added by this archive

The earliest clipping here from the civil war that began after the partition vote. Active verb, named actor, named village.

Cite this item

"Holy Land Village Attacked," Tyler Morning Telegraph, 27 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-004

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'America Should Lead in Solving Palestine Problem'Elmira Star-Gazette · 1 January 1947 · the same year
Forcing Palestine to Become a World Problem(newspaper unidentified) · 1 January 1947 · the same year
UN Turns Down Pleas of ArabsNews-Record · 13 May 1947 · the same year

This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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