Every day Hebron merchants are being deported from Egypt under police escort to Palestine, the Hebron correspondent of the “Jamea el Arabia”, the organ of the Grand #ufti, complains.
The number of Hebronites who have been driven from Egypt in this way is in the neighbourhood of 200, he says.
The Egyptian Government claims that these Hebronites entered Egypt, on merchant visas or without visas at all. But we are informed, the Hebron correspondent declares, that the influence of the Jews on the Egyptian Government is responsible for the deportation of these Hebronites.
If this state of affairs continues, he says, not a single Hebronite will remain in Egypt. We appeal to the national institutions to prevail upon the Egyptian Government to change its policy in this matter.
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