The New York Times · 30 March 1954

CP-1954-008

9 Slain in Jordan in Raid on Village; Israelis Blamed

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Transcribed from the clipping

“NAHHALIN, Jordan, March 29 — Nine persons were killed… Mosque Is Sacked, 6 Homes Bombed in Midnight Attack.”

Context added by this archive

Kennett Love, in the village, for the New York Times. Read the dateline and the headline together: the village is Nahhalin and the country is

Jordan. Nahhalin is a Palestinian village that had been under Jordanian administration for five years. In the headline it is simply Jordan, and the nine dead have no nationality at all.

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"9 Slain in Jordan in Raid on Village; Israelis Blamed," The New York Times, 30 March 1954. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1954-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1954-008

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