Truce Unacceptable With Jews In Jerusalem

Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1948, Page 5

Truce Unacceptable With Jews In Jerusalem

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Received Sunday, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, April 3. The Arabs'woitld fight any international .force trying to establisli a security zone in Jerusalem after the British left, said the Secretary of the Arab League Higher Oommittee (H.ussein Khaladi) . "We are not fighting the Jews bnt the invaders led by zealots from the Ritssian area of Europe who lust for politieal domination in this area. The Arabs caiinot aceept a truee wifh . the Jews in Jerusalem." . , Khalidi threatened Arab retaliation for Jeivish bombmg and said all Jeivish areas in Tel Aviv would'be night-bombed. ^ ^ Arab sourc.es in New York disclosed that the vice-chairman of the Arab Higher Committee (Jnmal Hussein) would arrive in New. .York tomorrow to discuss with the Security Council truce proposals for Palestine. Renter's Jerusalem correspondent states that after an advanee partv had sileneed the Arab outpost several hund'red members of , Haganah erept over the Judean hills at night and in a fiill-scale attnck with machinegUns, mortars and grenades captured CasteN a village on Mount Oarmel. The village was an Arab bastion \ dominating the maiii Jerusalem-Tel Aviv r.oad whence the Arabs \ had been blockading the Holy City. . ' Arab sources reported that hundfeds of Arab reinforcetnents rushed to Castel and counterattacks had begun.