UNO COUNCIL TO HOLD URGENT TALKS IN PALESTINE
(Recd. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 18. The Israeli Foreign Office in Tel Aviv announced that it had accepted the United Nations offer to arrange peace talks with the Egyptians, but rejected the cease-fire proposals until it received a guarantee that the Egyptians would stop fighting. A.ccording to Israeli reports, fighting which in the last'four days has been confined to the Negev flared up in the north-west of Palestine today, when Iraqi forces shelled the Jewish settlement at Fkar Yaavetz on the fringe of Arab-held territory, due west of Nablus. An Israeli communique says that Jewish forces today captured heights dominating the road to the Negev desert region in a fight to establish contact with isolated Jewish settlements there. _ ~ The Israeli Premier, Mr David Ben Gurion, who watched the operations in the Negev yesterday, has ordered his troops not to lay down their,arms until their objective is achieved. The Israeli air force today bombed Beersheba and Elarish. A United Nations spokesman said in Haifa last night that United Nations observers were evacuated from Gaza yesterday. In Paris it is announced that an emergency session of the Security Council will meet tomorrow morning to discuss the new flare-up in the fighting in Palestine.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1948, Page 5
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