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Israeli Authorities Release 500 Moslems Suspected of Belonging to Underground Movement

June 24, 1949
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Five hundred of the 900 Arabs arrested this week by Israeli authorities in a drive to smash a suspected Moslem Brotherhood underground government in Nazareth have been released, Reuters reported today from Israel. The other 300 have been screened and leaders of the suspected underground movement will be tried under military law.

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