The U.N. chief of staff in Palestine, Gen. William Riley, was attempting today to iron out a dispute which has arisen between Israel and Egyptian Army units in the Negev over the disposition of an area south of the armistice lines.
The Hashomer Hatzair newspaper “Al Hamishmar” reported today that so-called Arab “vengeance gangs” are murdering and terrorizing Arabs in northern Israel who are “cooperating with Jews in land transactions or who are maintaining contact with Jews.” Despite such almost daily occurrences, the paper adds, responsible civil and military authorities persist in considering them as ordinary offenses. A high-ranking Army officer is quoted by Al Hamishmar as declaring that there are “undoubtedly political actives behind” the attacks.
In one outstanding case, the paper reports, Mohamed Ali Saud, principal land sales agent for the Jewish National Fund, was murdered in the village of Tamarah. In another attack, 80 heads of cattle were stolen from an elder of the village of Deir U. Assad–situated on the Acre-Safed road–because of alleged “collaboration” with the Israelis. Tension in northern Galilee is increasing, the paper adds, nothing that inhabitants of that region have urged an immediate investigation and apprehension of the gang members.
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