Despite several more clashes between Jews and Arabs this week-end, there is hope here that the inter-communal situation will return normal soon, now that the government has joined Jewish and Arab leaders and organizations in an effort to suppress further violence. Eliezer Perlson, vice-mayor of Tel Aviv, revealed that he has approached the Jaffa municipality with a proposal for ##mon action to half the battles.
A Jewish girl was wounded this morning when a bus was fired on by Arabs near ## Kebir, Jaffa suburb and center of many Arab attacks during the last eight days. ##purs later, an Arab was found stabbed to death on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv boundary line, resumably in reprisal for the earlier attack. Yesterday a Jew, Abraham Cohen, was ##ned and stabbed to death near Jaffa.
Other incidents during the week-end included an Arab attack on a Yemenite reli##ous school and an attempt to sterm the Maccabee quarter. Both were repulsed. Two ##ke bombs exploded within 24 hours in a field bordering the village of Sumeil, near Tel Aviv.
Police announcements told of two clashes with extremists during the same period. in exchange of fire between youths posting placards and police resulted in the wounding of a Jewish bystander, and a second exchange between a police patrol and eight Jews ended with the escape of the extremists. A bomb exploded in a soldiers’ recreation room, wounding one man.
The government’s call for a cessation of hostilities in the Jaffa-Tel Aviv area came in a statement yesterday by the High Commissioner who pointed out that at this time, when Palestine’s case is before the United Nations, internecine warfare “can be in the interest of nobody.” He threatened severe punishment for either Jew or Arab caught engaging in violence.
The Hebrew press today expressed regret at the killing of an Arab woman and her four children when the Haganah blew up a house in Jaffa last week, during an operation to punish Arabs who had participated in a raid which cost four Jews their lives. The Labor daily Davar demanded an investigation and a full explanation from the Jewish resistance organization. The Haganah, meanwhile, issued a statement regreting that any innocent persons died in the explosion and said that its members were unaware of the presence of the children in the building which had been thoroughly searched.
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