Standard Star · New Rochelle, New York · 19 October 1948
CP-1948-046
Gaza Bombed For Fourth Day, Civilians Fleeing Arab Capital
Associated Press, Tel Aviv
Transcribed from the clipping
“TEL AVIV, Israel, (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 into the sea in Israeli waters 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 by an Israeli plane in a dogfight over the Negeb front lines.
Israeli military authorities here said it is not their intention to capture Gaza during the present Jewish-Egyptian battle for the Negeb desert in southern Palestine.
The Israelis, who have rejected the latest United Nations proposals for a cease fire in the Negeb fighting, have blasted open a supply road to 23 Jewish settlements in the Negeb through infantry and armor attacks with air support. Jewish planes, striking again by full moon, raided El Arish airfield, Beersheba, Biet Jibrin, Majdal and Faluja last night.
The Egyptian Air Force, hitting back for the first time in the present truce-breaking battle, was reported to have bombed the Jewish settlements of Nir Am and Dorot.”
Context added by this archive
The same Associated Press dispatch as the Havre Daily News of the same day, run here under a headline that names the flight of the civilians. Directly below it, a story about two women and a houseman holding a door shut against a prowler.
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"Gaza Bombed For Fourth Day, Civilians Fleeing Arab Capital," Standard Star, 19 October 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-046. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-046
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