Capt. Itzhak Ben-Ahron today went on trial before a British military court at Sarafand for a speech he delivered before a meeting of the Jewish National Assembly in November.
The Palestinian Jewish officer told the assembly that British troops had not been fired upon by Jewish colonists during the invasion of five Jewish villages in a search for illegal immigrants, during which nine Jews were killed and many wounded.
Although he was on terminal leave at the time of the address, Ben-Ahron was arrested by the military authorities and has been in custody ever since. The Jewish officer was captured by the Germans in Crete and spent several years in a Nazi prison camp, returning to Palestine only recently.
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