Joseph Absuhdid, one of the Jews wounded in Hebron during the massacre, who is now recovering in a Jerusalem hospital, was taken by the police to Hebron where he identified eighty prisoners as a part of the mob which perpetrated the massacre on Saturday, August 24.
Hebron is still like a city of death. Desolation extends to the Arab quarter where all shops are closed since the majority of the proprietors are in prison. The extent to which life in Hebron is paralyzed can be seen from the reports of the local post office, that since the Jews evacuated the city the revenue from the sale of stamps amounted to 8 Piastres, about 40 cents.
One hundred and five Jews were killed and 22 died of wounds, according to a report issued by the Hadassah Medical Unit. There were 207 wounded. These figures do not include a number treated in clinics and sent home.
It is thought that a number of bodies, dead and wounded, are still under the ruins at Safed. The majority of those killed and wounded at Safed were attacked with clubs and knives. In Tel Aviv they were shot and in Hulda and Kastinia the injured were also shot. In Jerusalem both bullets and knives caused the injuries. In Hebron knives alone were used by the perpetrators of the massacre.
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