Park City Daily News · 7 December 1947
CP-1947-030
Death Toll Boosted In Palestine Riots
Fresh Violence Brings Total Slain To 159
The Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM, Dec. 6—(AP)—Arab-Jewish warfare in Palestine claimed more lives tonight and boosted to 159 the Middle East’s number of slain since the United Nations decision to partition the Holy Land, which Arab national leaders were reported ready to oppose with force.
Palestine’s death toll grew to 80—51 Jews, 27 Arabs and two Armenians—in the week’s fighting between Arabs protesting partition and Jews defending themselves—and striking back. In Aden, far to the south, 75 have been killed—50 Jews and 25 Arabs. In Syria, four have died. Leaders of the seven governments in the Arab League headed for Cairo for a council meeting Monday.
Palestine Arab chieftains said the council would map a plan of armed opposition to partition and ‘in all likelihood’ would decide the hour to strike. League countries are Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Trans-Jordan, Iraq and Yemen. HOLY LAND trouble spots tonight were Jerusalem, Haifa and neighboring Jewish Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa.
Arabs and Jews fought with guns, bombs, sticks and stones, and houses were set on fire. In the old city of Jerusalem tonight, Arabs were reported to have attacked Jewish quarters and Jews to have counterattacked with bombs and gunfire, levelling in a row of Arab houses and burying some inhabitants beneath the debris.
Officials said two Arabs were killed, two injured severely and one hurt slightly. Police said one Jew also was killed by Arab sniper fire that started the clash. In Jaffa, one Arab was reported killed and 19 injured, at least three of them women, in the bombing of a shop.”
Context added by this archive
The toll is broken out by side in the second paragraph: fifty-one Jews, twenty-seven Arabs and two Armenians. Printed above a local story about a garbage franchise.
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"Death Toll Boosted In Palestine Riots," Park City Daily News, 7 December 1947, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-030. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-030
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