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May 15, 1948 Arab Terror – 1,256 Jews Killed between Nov ’47 – May ’48

Arab ViolenceSIXTY-TWO JEWS WERE MURDERED BY ARABS IN THE FIRST WEEK AFTER THE UN PARTITION PLAN (NOV 29, 1947) WAS PASSED, AND BY MAY 15, 1948, A TOTAL OF 1,256 JEWS HAD BEEN KILLED, MOST OF THEM CIVILIANS. These deaths were caused by Arab militias, gangs, terrorists and army units which attacked every place of Jewish inhabitation in Palestine.
The attacks succeeded in placing Jerusalem under siege and eventually cutting off its water supply. All Jewish villages in the Negev were attacked, and Jews had to go about the country in convoys. In every major city where Jews and Arabs lived in mixed neighborhoods the Jewish areas came under attack. This was true in Haifa’s Hadar Hacarmel as well as Jerusalem’s Old City.
MASSACRES WERE NOT UNCOMMON. FORTY-ONE JEWS WERE MURDERED BY ARAB RIOTERS AT HAIFA’S OIL REFINERY ON DECEMBER 30, 1947. ON JANUARY 16, 1948, 35 JEWS WERE KILLED TRYING TO REACH GUSH ETZION. ON FEBRUARY 22, 44 JEWS WERE MURDERED IN A BOMBING ON JERUSALEM’S REHOV BEN-YEHUDA. AND ON FEBRUARY 29, 23 JEWS WERE KILLED ALL ACROSS PALESTINE, EIGHT OF THEM AT THE HAYOTZEK IRON FOUNDRY. SEVENTY-SIX JEWS WERE MURDERED DURING THE MOUNT SCOPUS CONVOY MASSACRE ON APRIL 13. AND 127 JEWS WERE MASSACRED AT KFAR ETZION ON MAY 14, 1948, AFTER 30 OTHERS HAD DIED DEFENDING THE ETZION BLOC.”

In addition to identifying more than 100 Jewish settlements that were attacked by Arabs in the timeframes 1920-21, 1936-38, and 1947-48, Sir Martin Gilbert also points out extensive Jewish property damage such as timber yards burnt, crops burnt, haystacks burnt, orchards uprooted or burnt, threshing floors burnt, homes burnt, olive groves uprooted, thousands of citrus trees uprooted or burnt, vegetable crops uprooted, hundreds of acres of wheat destroyed, shops damaged with rocks, cattle killed, etc.

Source: Frantzman, Seth. Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine? Jerusalem Post. Aug 16, 2007; Gilbert, Martin, and Martin Gilbert. The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. London Routledge, 2002. 17-21.; Palestine Facts. Why did Arabs Leave the New State of Israel? (Site accessed Feb. 12 2008); Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2008. 182-183; Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2008. 186-187; http://www.middleeastpiece.com/palestinianviolence.html

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