The Boston Globe · Boston, Massachusetts · 14 May 1948
CP-1948-034
Jaffa Is a Dead City
AMERICAN IN PALESTINE - II - In the Arab port (which surrendered yesterday) this correspondent found only 2000 left of its 70,000 people.
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JAFFA used to be a busy metropolis, 'full of wild taxi drivers, donkey carts and smells of bad sanitation.'
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Published May 14 1948, the day of the Israeli declaration of independence
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"Jaffa Is a Dead City," The Boston Globe, 14 May 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-034. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-034
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