Israeli military governor Dr. Bernard Joseph today expressed his regrets over the week-end shooting of Joseph Pryzyowsky, a U.S. consulate guard who was wounded by a sniper’s bullet while driving an official American ca?
In a letter to U.S. consul-general John J. MacDonald, Dr, Joseph explained that the American was hit in an area where Jewish troops were replying to heavy Arab fire which took the lives of several Jews and wounded a number of others, including sons children. His letter emphasized that “if there will be no Arab sniping, there will be no Jewish reply.”
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