Acting Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon cate###ab charges that Israeli forces had perpetrated “atroci# village of Tirah after an Israel Air Force plane had #.
#as in reply to a motion by the three Arab members of # the search. He told them: “We thoroughly investigated # the slightest doubt that the plane was shot at, and hit, # immediate neighborhood, although this does not neces# abitants committed the crime.”
#charge against the search party, Mr. Lavon said that #ications about atrocities and I don’t doubt that the #ate many such fabrications.”
# to the search party to abstain from touching persons # were fully carried out, the Acting Defense Minister # Arab citizenry to assist Israel actively in the petty war #etty war continues and part of our inhabitants stand idly #ese inhabitants more than the State.”
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