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Palestine Jewish Institutions Call for Establishment of Provisional Govt. by May 15

March 24, 1948
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A Provisional Jewish Government must be proclaimed no later than May 15, a Joint meeting of the Jewish Agency executive and the Jewish national Council decided here late tonight.

After a lengthy meeting a Joint statement was issued reserving categorically any form of trusteeship for Palestine as “depriving the Jews of independence.”

The session also extended the hand of friendship to the Arabs in Palestine in the neighboring states and asked for cooperation between the two peoples.

A truckload of explosives was tonight set off by Arabs in the Jewish Yemin Moshe quarter of Jerusalem. Two abandoned buildings were demolished and several other structures were damaged. First reports stated that four Jews suffered superficial wounds, while British troops and Jews opened fire on Arab positions which had covered be truck-bomb. Eight Arabs were injured and one soldier was killed in the subsequent exchange. (For further details of Palestine violence see page 2.)

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