The Iraqi Government and Rahman Abdul Azzam Pasha, secretary of the Arab League, today filed protests with the United Nations alleging that Israeli forces are engaged in a new campaign to drive Arab refugees in Palestine across the border. Although both protests were filed as independent and separate communications both are similar in their allegations and timing.
In his note Azzam Pasha says that the “Zionists” have expelled some 479 refugees from regions where they had taken refuge and which have now come under Jewish control. The Iraqi note pays one group of 17 Arabs and another one of 42 were expelled by machinegun fire in the Zabounah and Asra regions. It alleges 420 more were driven “to the Jenin area,” Both parties said they have forwarded copies of their complaints to the U.N. Palestine Conciliation Commission, to acting mediator Ralph J. Bunche and to the International Red Cross.
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