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The News & Observer · Raleigh, North Carolina · 26 April 1948

CP-1948-054

Thousands of Arabs Flee As Jews Open Jaffa Drive

Irgun Troops Attack Ancient City; Haganah Men Seize Road at Jerusalem

United Press, Jaffa, Palestine

Thousands of Arabs Flee As Jews Open Jaffa Drive — The News & Observer, 26 April 1948
The News & Observer · Raleigh, North Carolina · 26 April 1948

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

Run alongside <i>American Troops Quell Kobe Riot · Negro Soldiers Arrest 178 Unruly Koreans</i>, a segregated United States Army in occupied Japan on the same column inch as Jaffa.

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