Gaza Bombed For Fourth Day, Civilians Fleeing Arab Capital

The Associated Press, Tel Aviv

Transcribed from the clipping

“Israeli air force bombing of Gaza roared into its fourth straight day today and the Arab civilian population was reported in flight from… The Israeli Army announced it had shot down two Egyptian Spitfires in Southern Palestine today.”

Context added by this archive

The same Associated Press copy as the Havre Daily News that morning. One headline says the planes, the other says the fourth day and the civilians.

Cite this item

"Gaza Bombed For Fourth Day, Civilians Fleeing Arab Capital," Standard Star, 19 October 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-046. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-046

Elsewhere in the archive

Gaza Bombed Again by Israeli PlanesHavre Daily News · 19 October 1948 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
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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