Israeli Seizure of Gaza Equals Bitter World War II Battles

'Now We Can Work Fields in Peace'

Transcribed from the clipping

By Serge Fliegers, INS, datelined inside the Gaza Strip. “I rode into the battle of Gaza in an ancient New York taxi cab. I watched Israeli soldiers wrest the town of Gaza and the whole refugee-jammed Gaza Strip from Egyptian troops and fedayeen suicide commandos.” The report describes house-to-house fighting, and: “The population was rounded up and marched — hands up — to screening centers.” It records “the bulk of some 250,000 Palestine Arab refugees” in the strip. The kicker over the headline, quoting an Israeli settler, reads “Now We Can Work Fields in Peace”, and the closing line returns to a sixteen-year-old girl at Nahal Oz: “So this is where they came from at night… Now the nightmare is ended. We can work our fields in peace.”

Context added by this archive

The comparison in the headline is to the Second World War, and it is offered in Israel's favour.

Correction to the caption this arrived with

masthead reads Morning Call, Allentown PA, Nov 3 1956; slide caption pairing swapped with Birmingham Post 1967

Cite this item

"Israeli Seizure of Gaza Equals Bitter World War II Battles," The Morning Call, 3 November 1956. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1956-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1956-006

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