The News Journal · 1 January 1948

CP-1948-055

Jewish Reprisal Raids On Two Arab Villages Take Toll of 8 Lives

Hagana Drafts Palestine Youth · Machine-Gun, Grenade Assaults Seen Hagana Revenge for Killing Of 41 Persons at Haifa

By the Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM, Jan. 1—Police said six Arabs and two Jews were killed today in a Jewish reprisal raid on the Arab village of Balad esh Shiekh, raising to 500 the deaths in communal strife since the United Nations decided 34 days ago to partition Palestine. The Jews, using machine-guns and grenades, also struck at another Arab village, Hawassa. At least 30 persons were wounded. The attacks, believed instigated by Hagana, the Jewish underground defense force, were reported as revenge for the killing of 41 Jews at the consolidated refinery plant at Haifa after the Jews had thrown a bomb into a group of Arabs lined up before the plant’s employment office.”

Photograph caption

“Recruits for Hagana, the Jewish defense organization, are given medical examinations at Tel Aviv. They will get induction cards classifying them according to health, education and ability. Hagana has called to arms all Jewish boys and girls between 17 and 25 for the battle with the Arabs over partition.” (NEA Telephoto)

Context added by this archive

Five hundred dead in thirty-four days, counted in the second paragraph on New Year’s Day.

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"Jewish Reprisal Raids On Two Arab Villages Take Toll of 8 Lives," The News Journal, 1 January 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-055. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-055

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