West Central Tribune · 24 June 1967
CP-1967-023
Exodus From Jordan River’s West Bank
Associated Press, Washington and Amman
Transcribed from the clipping
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Red Cross is shipping $350,000 worth of drugs and medicines donated by 10 U.S. pharmaceutical firms to aid thousands of refugees displaced by the Israeli-Arab war.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Palestinian refugees charged that Israeli troops occupying the Jordan River’s west bank are systematically deporting inhabitants of villages along the 1949 armistice line between Jordan and Israel.
Refugees, interviewed in their temporary quarters in an Amman school building, claimed villagers are being removed by force, intimidation and trickery. Several refugees said they were threatened with death if they tried to return to their homes.
They said at least two villages on the western edge of the Israeli-occupied west bank region have been leveled by Israeli demolition crews and bulldozers.”
Context added by this archive
The same dispatch, cut to five paragraphs and stacked under a Washington item about donated medicine, with the headline changed from deportation to exodus. The Israeli denial is not in this version.
Cite this clipping
"Exodus From Jordan River’s West Bank," West Central Tribune, 24 June 1967, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-023. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-023
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