The Military Governor in Upper Galilee ordered the closing of roads leading to two Arab villages in the area to bar a Communist-sponsored meeting to oppose a decision to build a township near these villages, officials here disclosed today.
Haana and Dir el Assad, the two villages, are part of the area on which the new township will be built. All owners of land in the area received full compensation or parcels of land nearly in exchange but Communists have been using the transactions to incite Arabs against the township plans.
They called for a mass protest meeting for the coming Saturday, a meeting which the Governor’s order will bar. Some tension has been reported in Arab villages in the Galilee where Communists continued to seek to stir up the Arabs, officials said.
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