Two Arab policemen of Gaza were sentenced to six months in prison in the district court at Jaffa, for neglect of duty during the attack on Beertuvia. Judge Copland pronounced the sentence behind closed doors because he did not wish “to wash dirty linen in public.” Both were found guilty of deliberately having neglected their duty in time of danger to the settlement when people were killed and property destroyed.
Another policeman had been charged with neglect of duty in connection with the attack on Beertuvia, Wolinsky, one of the Jewish witnesses before the Inquiry Commission, had told how the three concealed themselves in a stable during the peak of the attack.
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