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Abandoned Colony in Southern Palestine Burned Down by Terrorists

September 9, 1938
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Ruchema, the southernmost Jewish colony in Palestine, which had to be abandoned when the police post there was withdrawn, has been completely burned down by Arab terrorists. The colony was located east of Gaza and had been subjected to many bandit attacks. When the police post was withdrawn the last Jewish settler there was evacuated.

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