Telegram & Gazette · Worcester, Massachusetts · 26 February 1957
CP-1957-014
Palestinian Arabs Clash With Police
The Associated Press, Cairo
Transcribed from the clipping
“CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 26 (AP)—At least five persons were killed today when about 500 Palestinian Arab soldiers clamoring for arms attacked an Egyptian police station in the suburb of Maadi. Police immediately clamped a tight lid of secrecy on the incident, and refused even to admit any trouble had occurred.
Eyewitnesses said, however, that at least five were killed, several wounded and more than 20 arrested when the Palestinians attempted to storm the police station from two directions to get arms and ammunition. Reliable sources said the attackers came from an Egyptian army tent camp in the desert near the suburb.”
Context added by this archive
Palestinians in the headline in 1957, in a story about them fighting the Egyptian police.
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"Palestinian Arabs Clash With Police," Telegram & Gazette, 26 February 1957, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1957-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1957-014
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