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Evening Star · Washington, District of Columbia · 10 April 1948

CP-1948-124

Jerusalem Outskirts Shelled by Arab Guns; Fall of Kastel Claimed

Associated Press, Jerusalem

Jerusalem Outskirts Shelled by Arab Guns; Fall of Kastel Claimed — Evening Star, 10 April 1948
Evening Star · Washington, District of Columbia · 10 April 1948

Transcribed from the clipping

“Arab field guns stationed in the Judean mountains hurled eight 25-pound shells into the Jewish suburb of Givat Shaul (Hill of Saul). This is 1,000 yards from Deir Yassin, which a Jewish striking force occupied yesterday.”

Context added by this archive

Day one of three. The village appears once, as a way of locating an artillery strike. Occupied. No casualties, and no perpetrator beyond “a Jewish striking force.” The paper sets the same village three ways inside two days — Kastel, Kassel and Kasel.

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"Jerusalem Outskirts Shelled by Arab Guns; Fall of Kastel Claimed," Evening Star, 10 April 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-124. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-124

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