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Democrat and Chronicle · Rochester, New York · 10 December 1947

CP-1947-022

‘Shoot to Kill’ Orders Given British Troops In Palestine Riot Area

Fighting Rages, Curfew Placed On 20,000

The Associated Press, Jerusalem

‘Shoot to Kill’ Orders Given British Troops In Palestine Riot Area — Democrat and Chronicle, 10 December 1947
Democrat and Chronicle · Rochester, New York · 10 December 1947

Transcribed from the clipping

“Jerusalem — (AP) — British troops with ‘shoot to kill’ orders were moved into the bloodstained border area between Tel Aviv and Jaffa last night. They moved to end aggression on the battlefield where Arabs and Jews have waged their fiercest fighting in 10 days of Palestine communal warfare. Acting desperately to stamp out the disorders that have claimed 112 lives, injured approximately 600 persons and destroyed property with an estimated worth of 10 million dollars, British authorities placed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa ‘no man’s land’ and sealed it off with British troops… The order put 20,000 Jews and Arabs under house arrest from 5 p. m. to 6 a. m. until further notice.”

Photograph caption

“An angry, sullen mob of students and workers shouting ‘Give us arms,’ and carrying banners reading ‘Down with America,’ sulks through streets of Cairo, clamoring to be led in a Holy War to prevent the partition of Palestine.” (Acme Telephoto)

Context added by this archive

A boxed item on the same page reports a body in Damascus calling itself the Palestine Liberation Committee, seventeen years before the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded.

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"‘Shoot to Kill’ Orders Given British Troops In Palestine Riot Area," Democrat and Chronicle, 10 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-022. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-022

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