Palo Alto Times · 5 December 1947

CP-1947-024

Fires raging out of control after Arab attack on Tel Aviv

Death toll from Palestine riots reaches 48—25 of them Jews

By the Associated Press

Transcribed from the clipping

“Fires swept out of control in an Arab attack on all-Jewish Tel Aviv tonight as the week’s deaths in communal fighting in the Middle East passed the 100 mark. Flames illuminated a five-mile-long battle front centering on Tel Aviv. Thirty Arab-owned homes evacuated by Jewish families blazed up, and an official announcement said the fires were out of control… The death toll in Palestine reached 48, 25 of them Jews… Some 50,000 demonstrators met in the center of the Lebanese capital of Beirut protesting the partition decision. Arab sources said 3,900 men and 38 women from Lebanon had volunteered to fight partition.”

Context added by this archive

Printed beside the ousting of French Communists from the National Assembly and a report that French police had been given power to fire on crowds.

Cite this item

"Fires raging out of control after Arab attack on Tel Aviv," Palo Alto Times, 5 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-024. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-024

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