Morning Advocate · 5 January 1948
CP-1948-118
Jews Blow Up Military Post Of Jaffa Arabs
Group Slips by Guards to Set Off Explosion
United Press, Jerusalem, Palestine
Transcribed from the clipping
“Jerusalem, Palestine, Jan. 4 (UP)—Dark-skinned Jews, dressed as Arabs, slipped into all-Arab Jaffa today and blew up the crowded headquarters of the Arab higher committee and Arab underground army Najada with a truckload of dynamite hidden in orange crates.
An official British report said 14 Arabs were killed and about 90 wounded, 20 seriously, including a heavy proportion of children, who had been sheltered temporarily in the building for lack of safe homes elsewhere. Officials believed that the casualty total would mount… A storm has been beating the Holy Land for more than 25 hours.
Late tonight, rescue workers in dripping rain capes shovelled and pulled by torchlight at the wreckage… The Arabs want to starve out some 5100 Jews—all believed to be Haganah men—who have been besieged in the Jewish section of the old city since last Tuesday… Witnesses of the blowing up of higher committee headquarters in Jaffa said they did not believe more than four or five men were involved.
The Stern gang telephoned the United Press and said it was responsible for the bombing.”
Context added by this archive
The Baton Rouge version. The refugee clause has been shortened to “children… sheltered temporarily in the building for lack of safe homes elsewhere” — the words Arab refugees are gone. The subheadings are “Still Working” and “Few Involved,” and the number of besieged Jews is set as 5100 where every other printing says 1500.
Cite this clipping
"Jews Blow Up Military Post Of Jaffa Arabs," Morning Advocate, 5 January 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-118. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-118
More from Morning Advocate
- Arabs Flee by Thousands as Jews Pound Jaffa in Fiercest Fighting Yet in PalestineMorning Advocate · 26 April 1948
- Protests Killing Of Arab Villagers By IsraelisMorning Advocate · 14 December 1956
- Bomb attack kills watchman on Israeli estateMorning Advocate · 18 December 1956
More from the 1940s
- Jewish Reprisal Raids On Two Arab Villages Take Toll of 8 LivesThe News Journal · 1 January 1948
- Palestine Blasts Rip Arab OfficesThe New York Times · 5 January 1948
- Ninety Wounded In Truck Blast At HeadquartersThe Beaumont Enterprise · 5 January 1948
- Jews Dynamite HQ of Arabs’ High CommandDaily News · 5 January 1948
- 15 Arabs Die In Jaffa BlastTerre Haute Tribune · 5 January 1948
- Jews Blow Up Arab Chiefs’ HotelPortland Press Herald · 5 January 1948
- All 334 clippings from the 1940s →
In these collections
Last updated 2 November 2026
This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1724 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
The clipping belongs to the newspaper that printed it, or to the news agency that supplied the copy. It is reproduced here for research, criticism and commentary. A city here is where the newspaper was published, not where the story came from, and on most records it was taken from the masthead.
Something wrong here, or something you know about this clipping? The archive is still being built and corrections are wanted: maria@rozumstudio.com, quoting CP-1948-118.
Everything printed in 1948 · Printed on this day · See it in the archive reel · Full text of every clipping · Dataset