Jews Arrest Truce Observers
LONDON, November 10. Two United Nations observers were arrested by Israeli military police on the central Negev front yesterday “while watching a Jewish attack on Egyptian positions”, states the United Nations truce headquarters in Palestine. The observers went to the area when they heard shell-fire. Later their Israeli military liaison ollicer asked them to withdraw as “it was too dangerous.” When the observers refused to withdraw, they were arrested by Jewish military police, taken to a nearby village, and kept under armed guard. At night the obversers were taken to Tel Aviv, where they were releuscd. The acting United Nations mediator, Dr Bundle, has asked officials of the Israeli Provisional Government for an explanation of the reported arrest of the two observers. The acting United Nations chief of staff, Colonel George Millett, protested to Israeli army headquarters against the “deliberate attempt to thwart effective supervision of the truce”.
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Grey River Argus, 13 November 1948, Page 6
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