San Francisco Chronicle · San Francisco, California · 19 December 1947

CP-1947-011

Arab Leader Predicts Renewed Violence in Palestine

The Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM, Dec. 18 (AP)—The violence of Arab-Jewish strife waned further in the Holy Land today, but Arab leaders said ‘it is a lull that may end at any moment.’… The Associated Press count of dead in Palestine was brought to 266 since the U. N. vote on November 29 for Palestine’s partition. It was Hussein Khaldi, Arab High Executive Secretary, who described this calmest day since the U. N. vote as a ‘lull that may end at any moment’… Some 2000 Palestine Arab families were reported housed in temporary camps just inside the Lebanese border after having evacuated a ‘danger zone’ close to Jewish areas.”

Context added by this archive

Two thousand Palestinian families already in camps over the Lebanese border, reported in an American paper three weeks after the partition vote and five months before the state was declared.

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"Arab Leader Predicts Renewed Violence in Palestine," San Francisco Chronicle, 19 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-011

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