Buffalo Courier Express · Buffalo, New York · 4 December 1947
CP-1947-015
Palestine Riots Flare Anew in Haifa
Arab Mobs Fire Jewish Lumber Yard · Vicious Gun Battle Creates No Man’s Land In Jaffa-Tel Aviv Area; British Ready to Act
United Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“Jerusalem, Palestine, Dec. 3 (UP)—Fresh rioting broke out tonight in Haifa, the great oil port of Palestine.
Arabs and Jews earlier fought an hours-long engagement in the Jaffa-Tel Aviv no man’s land and British troops broke up with gunfire an Arab mob assault on the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem… Ten men—seven Arabs and three Jews—were reported killed in the fighting in the border areas between the twin cities of Jaffa, which is Arab, and Tel Aviv, which is Jewish… This brought the toll of casualties in two days of disorder following the country’s partition to 23 killed and 102 wounded.
Hundreds more have suffered minor injuries.…
Ten Killed in Battle. “Thirty-two men, 24 Jews and eight Arabs, were reported seriously wounded.
This brought the unofficial toll of casualties in two days of disorder in Palestine riots over the country’s partition to 23 killed and 102 wounded.”… “The seven historic gates of the old city of Jerusalem were locked tonight, confining 30,000 Arabs and 5,000 Jews inside the ancient walls.
British troops stood guard to prevent a reported Arab attempt to storm the Jewish quarter.”… “For the first time, men of the three Jewish militant organizations—Haganah, basis for the future Jewish army, and the extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang—stood side by side to fight the Arabs in the battle between Arab Jaffa and Jewish Tel Aviv.”
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Seven Arabs and three Jews reported killed; 24 Jews and eight Arabs reported seriously wounded. The same page carries “Army Fears Soviet Action In Holy Land” and a Cairo report of students demonstrating for a third day against the partition decision.
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"Palestine Riots Flare Anew in Haifa," Buffalo Courier Express, 4 December 1947, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-015. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-015
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