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Co Cyprus Internees on Hunger Strike to Protest Worsening Camp Conditions

July 8, 1947
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Thirteen thousand Jews interned on Cyprus, of whom (##) are children, were on a hunger strike today to protest the deterioration of (##)tions in the camps. The strike began at midnight yesterday and will continue (##)ugh midnight today.

Edith Weiss, sister of Jacob Weiss, one of three Irgunists sentenced to death (##) participation in the Acre prison break, has arrived here from Czechoslovakia to (##) her brother. She visited him for the first time yesterday, but was not permitted to come close enough even to shake his hand.

The Stern Group last night demanded the release of two of its girl members (##) were arrested yesterday when they entered Kadimah House, where the U.N. inquiry committee is quartered, to leave a memorandum for UNSCOP. The Sternists said that (##) seizure of the girls was an “outrage on the part of the occupation forces.”

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