Vicksburg Evening Post · Vicksburg, Mississippi · 1 May 1948
CP-1948-031
Arabs Fleeing Haifa Under Attack by Jews
Transcription
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Photograph caption
“Arabs with their belongings wait on the waterfront at Haifa, Palestine, for boats to take them across the bay to the all-Arab city of Acre. Thousands of Arab men, women and children fled from Haifa as Jewish forces seized major portions of that important seaport.”
Context added by this archive
A photograph caption, a week later, with the cause in the same line as the flight.
Cite this item
"Arabs Fleeing Haifa Under Attack by Jews," Vicksburg Evening Post, 1 May 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-031. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-031
Elsewhere in the archive
- JEWS TAKE TWO FORTS FROM ARABSMt. Vernon Register-News · 1948 · the same year
- CRISIS NEARS CLIMAXChicago Tribune · 9 February 1948 · the same year
- ISRAEL CALLS FOR U.N. STEPS TO STOP ARABSChicago Tribune · 9 February 1948 · the same year
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