Havre Daily News · Havre, Montana · 19 October 1948
CP-1948-045
Gaza Bombed Again by Israeli Planes
Associated Press, Tel Aviv
Transcribed from the clipping
“TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 19. (AP) — Israeli air force bombing of Gaza roared into its fourth straight day today and the Arab civilian population was reported in flight from the capital of the Arab-proclaimed Palestine state. United Nations observers already have left the port city.
How nearly deserted it was could not be learned, but its use as a seat of the Arab government seemed to have been abandoned for the time being. Egyptian forces have occupied it. The Israeli army announced it had shot down two Egyptian Spitfires in southern Palestine today.
One plane fell when struck by the fire of anti-aircraft guns aboard a Jewish patrol ship it was attacking, the communique said. The second was reported downed over the Negev front lines. Israeli military authorities here said it is not their intention to capture Gaza during the present Jewish-Egyptian battle for the Negev desert in southern Palestine.
The Israelis, who have rejected the latest United Nations proposals for a cease fire in the Negev fighting, have blasted open a…”
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Gaza as the seat of a government: the paper calls it the capital of the Arab-proclaimed Palestine state, and reports the civilians leaving it. The story continues on another page that is not in this clipping.
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"Gaza Bombed Again by Israeli Planes," Havre Daily News, 19 October 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-045. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-045
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