Ahmed Tapish, accused of the murder of the Jew Mamaan from Safed, will be extradited from Transjordania while a Druse rebel also suspected of a part in the Safed massacre has been captured at Kuneitra while on his way to Damascus and handed over to the Palestine police. According to the latest reports the Transjordania defense force is chasing the northern marauding gangs. One has been killed in a setto outside of a village near Tiberias and Ibrahim Yakoubi, a Safed gangster, was captured after having been wounded. He was removed to the Tiberias hospital.
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