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Refugee Women in Palestine on Hunger Strike to Protest Husbands’ Detention in Cyprus

April 8, 1947
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Twenty-six women refugees from various blockade runners, who are now housed in the Jewish Agency’s refugee hostel here, are in the third day of a hunger strike in protest against the Agency’s alleged failure to secure the return from Cyprus of their husbands. The women said that Agency officials had promised that their husbands would be back in Palestine by Passover.

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