Nine Arabs were killed and three seriously wounded today when a truckload of guerrillas attempted to crash through a Jewish road-block on the road “between Acre and Ras el Nakura. The Arabs opened fire on a truck-##ful of Jews and before the battle had ended all the Arabs were casualties except for one who escaped.
Five Jews were killed during an attack on a quarry near Ein Harod, in the Beisan Valley adjoining Transjordan. During the night the Arabs blasted three bridges between Afule and Kfar Yeheskial, temporarily cutting off the Haifa area from the remainder of the settlement-studded Beisan Valley.
The Jews blew up a bridge near Safad across which Arab reinforcements were filtering into Palestine. In the Sheikh Jarach quarter of Jerusalem the Sternists blasted the headquarters of the Supreme Moslem Council. In Tel Aviv one Jewish woman was killed by Arab snipers from Jarfa.
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