Large-Scale Battle In Tel Aviv Area
LONDON, Wed. (10 a.m.).—Five Arabs and two Jews were killed and about 20 wounded in a Jaffa-Tel Aviv border gun battle which lasted for four hours. The authorities immediately clamped a 24-hour curfew on the area when reports of renewed large-scale fighting reached Jerusalem. Both sides used machine-guns and grenades.
Jews taking merchandise from the ashes of shops set alight yesterday fired and looted seven Arab shops in Jerusalem's commercial centre today. Two Arabs of a group attempting to break out of the .Old City, in violation of the curfew, were shot and wounded. The authorities, who earlier extended the dusk-to-dawn curfew to midday, decided to extend it to 24 hours in certain areas. Troops of the British Ist Infantry Division are moving into the no-man’s-land between Tel Aviv and Jaffa, where, according to the Associated Press correspondent, the Arabs are making an organised attempt to break through to Tel Aviv. British troops, with Bren-gun carriers. reinforced police outside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City.
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Northern Advocate, 4 December 1947, Page 5
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