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Jews Evicted from Homes in Haifa As Collective Punishment for Blasting of Jeep

April 14, 1947
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One hundred and ten Jews were today evicted ## their homes in the Hadar Hacarmel section of Haifa by the Palestine Government ## collective punishment for the blasting of a military jeep on a nearby road ten ## ago.

Jewish heads of various sections of Jerusalem and its suburbs were threaten ## by the local British district commissioner this week-end that they would be held ## ponsible for terrorist activity in their areas. They were also warned that if any ## British personnel were slain, the Jewish quarters would be placed under a severe ##few.Two Arab ice cream vendors were attacked and slightly injured by a number of ## yesterday near a sports stadium. The incident followed the killing Friday of Jew and the injuring of another by an Arab mob. The men, Asher and Isaac ##ovitz, who are brothers, accidentally entered an Arab mosque while seeking for a ##eet that would lead them to the Wailing Wall. Both were recent immigrants to ##estine and had come to Jerusalem for a holiday visit from Tel Aviv, their home.The Sternist underground radio today assumed responsibility for the assassion of a British constable last week and the wounding of another as “reprisal” ## the killing of a Jew and the wounding of a second by British soldiers. Guela##en, a Jewish woman sentenced to seven years imprisonment for serving as an an##ncer on a Sternist radio station, escaped from a government hospital here where ## was a prisoner. She had made one unsuccessful attempt to escape previously.

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