Buffalo Jewish Review · Buffalo, New York · 22 November 1957
CP-1957-013
Israel to Pay Compensation to Heirs of Arabs Killed in Kfar Kassem
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM (JTA)—A special commission investigating the murder of 48 Arabs at Kfar Kassem an Arab village in Israel, has recommended that the Israel Government pay 5,000 pounds compensation to the heirs of every man and woman killed in the affair, plus certain other sums to dependents of the dead and to persons wounded in the shootings.
Premier David Ben Gurion has pledged to honor the committee’s recommendations. The Arabs were returning from the fields the evening of the day the Israeli Army opened the Sinai drive. Unaware of a curfew imposed on the area in their absence, they panicked when suddenly faced by an Israeli military partol which ordered them to halt.
They turned and ran and the soldier, under orders of a lieutenant, opened fire. The officer and several enlisted men are awaiting trial on charges of unjustified firing on the Arab population.”
Context added by this archive
The word in the first line is murder, and the number is 48. Printed in a Jewish community weekly in Buffalo. “partol” is the paper’s.
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"Israel to Pay Compensation to Heirs of Arabs Killed in Kfar Kassem," Buffalo Jewish Review, 22 November 1957, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1957-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1957-013
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