Lodi News-Sentinel · 26 April 1948

CP-1948-053

Arabs Flee City Under Bombs

United Press, Jaffa, Palestine

Transcribed from the clipping

“Jaffa, Palestine, April 25 (UP)—Thousands of Arabs fled this ancient city today as men of the Jewish extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi battered the city with mortars in the fiercest attack of the five-month ‘war,’ police said tonight. Police Superintendent J. M. Flanagan said that at least four persons were killed and 82 wounded as Irgunist mortars, firing from the ‘no-man’s-land’ between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, hammered the heart of the Jaffa business section… A Haganah broadcast tonight accused Irgun of ‘indulging in dangerous adventures.’ … Flanagan said that Arabs fled the city after British forces broke up an Irgunist road block on the Jerusalem highway, only land link between Jaffa and the rest of Palestine. He said the mortar bombardment blew a hole in the roof of a moving picture theater on King George Ave. and caused some damage to the Jaffa post office.”

Context added by this archive

The same dispatch with the agent removed from the headline. Whose bombs is not said.

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"Arabs Flee City Under Bombs," Lodi News-Sentinel, 26 April 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-053. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-053

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