Jewish Forces Win Control of Haifa; Arabs Leaving

International News Service, Haifa

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“JEWISH FORCES WIN CONTROL OF HAIFA; ARABS LEAVING. HAIFA, April 23 (Friday) (INS) — Jewish forces won complete military control of Haifa last night and today 60,000 Arabs began a mass evacuation from the great port city on Palestine’s northwest coast.

(The London Daily Mail said the Arab decision amounted to a ‘surrender by evacuation.’) The Arabs were reported to have agreed to yield their arms to the Jews before leaving Haifa — the richest plum in the current Arab-Jewish war.

(A Reuters dispatch said a breakdown of truce negotiations brought renewal of Jewish attacks on Haifa’s Arabs which had been suspended Thursday after an all-out offensive began Wednesday.)”

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One of the eleven clippings here from 23 April 1948, and one of the seven whose headline carries the number or the people. The parenthetical from Reuters, at the foot, says the attacks resumed after truce talks broke down.

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"Jewish Forces Win Control of Haifa; Arabs Leaving," Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 23 April 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-019. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-019

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