Serious Gashes In Palestine: Arabs And Jews

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1947, Page 7

Serious Gashes In Palestine: Arabs And Jews

(Rec. 3 p.m.) JERUSALEM, August 13. Seven Jews and three Arabe have been killed and 26 Jews and 12 Arabs wounded in communal clashes in Jaffa and Tel Aviv since the night of August 10. More than 10 incidents aggravated tension today in the Manshief and Karton quarters of Jaffa, where 20,000 Arabs and Yemenite Jews live side by side in squalid huts. A Jewish news vendoi' was beaten and stabbed, and an Arab crowd fatally stabbed a Jewish truck driver, who stopped to do repairs in the street. Most of the Jaffa shops were shuttered while knife attacks, stonings and beatings occurred. An Arab source in Jaffa told Reuters that the Arabs overpowered and bound four Jews carrying arms near the police station and handed them unhurt to the police. Jews attacked and injured an Arab at Tel Aviv.

The police revealed that an explosive envelope burst into flames when a clerk date-stamped it in Rehovoth Post Office yesterday. An Arab was found shot dead today in an orange grove on the northern outskirts of Tel Aviv. Haganah members claimed the Arab was executed because he allegedly guided armed raiders who ‘attacked a Jewish cafe in Tel Aviv on the night of August 10. Eleven Moslem and Christian Arab organisations, including the militant Moslem Brotherhood, issued in Jaffa a “keep calm” appeal to the inhabitants. The deputy mayor of Tel Aviv asked the populace to avoil provocation. , The authorities in Jaffa regard the outbreak as serious, but not a planned campaign. The Jews, taking the Jaffa troubles seriously, recall that clashes in this district preceded the Arab rebellion in 1936.