Evansville Courier & Press · Evansville, Indiana · 3 December 1947
CP-1947-020
Arab Mobs, Jews Fight In Bloody Palestine Riots
14 Killed, 38 Wounded in Battles Raging Throughout Day · BURN, LOOT SHOPS · Mufti Blamed for Disorders; Jerusalem Damage Is $1,000,000
By Joseph C. Goodwin, Associated Press Staff Writer, Jerusalem
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Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM, (Wednesday), Dec. 3.—(AP)—An unofficial casualty list showed early today that eight Jews and six Arabs were killed yesterday in bloody armed clashes during the first 24 hours of an Arab general strike protesting the United Nations decision to partition Palestine.
Thirty-two Jews and six Arabs were wounded in the same fighting, which raged throughout the day in Jerusalem and opened last night in Tel Aviv, the world’s only all-Jewish metropolis, as the fierce Arab mobs apparently shifted the scene of their operations… Haganah, the underground Jewish group whose organized army helped British troops gain control of the situation yesterday in Jerusalem, said last night in a communique that the riots were inspired by Haj Amin El Husseini, the exiled mufti of Jerusalem.
‘The hirelings of the mufti have succeeded in turning the first day of the strike into a day of bloodshed and rowdyism,’ the communique said.”
Context added by this archive
The blame-their-leaders frame, sourced to a Haganah communique and put in the subheading.
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"Arab Mobs, Jews Fight In Bloody Palestine Riots," Evansville Courier & Press, 3 December 1947, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-020
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