The Idaho Statesman · Boise, Idaho · 23 April 1948
CP-1948-023
60,000 Arabs Set To Evacuate City
Continued from page one
The Associated Press, Haifa
Transcribed from the clipping
“(Continued from Page One) tory won in a 24-hour battle that began Wednesday, fears of new military moves in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv were felt in Arab and British quarters. One rumor said the Jews planned to seize strategic buildings in the Holy City.
The Jews were reported building concrete pillboxes around their positions in Jerusalem and sinking steel spikes in the ground to halt tank attacks. As the British evacuated Jerusalem buildings in line with their withdrawal program, Arabs and Jews moved in. Arab men, women and children began leaving the city by boat, truck and other means when the battle began.
Additional thousands of the 30,000 Arabs in the important communications center crowded docks in the British-controlled port area and assembly centers for evacuation across the bay to Acre and other Arab cities. It was learned the only Arabs due to remain in Haifa will be Moslem and Christian clergymen who will watch over religious shrines.
British army transport assisted in the evacuation, which will continue today.”
Context added by this archive
The jump page. The headline says sixty thousand and the body says thirty thousand, in the same clipping. The subheads are “Building Pillboxes” and “Clergymen Remain.”
Cite this clipping
"60,000 Arabs Set To Evacuate City," The Idaho Statesman, 23 April 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-023. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-023
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