{"id":211084,"date":"1948-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=211084"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:07:10","slug":"auto-insert-211084","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-211084\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Palestine Commission – Heavy fighting in Haifa – Letter from United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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22 April 1948<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS PALESTINE COMMISSION<\/p><\/div>\n

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Communication Received from United Kingdom<\/p><\/div>\n

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Delegation Concerning Position in Haifa<\/p><\/div>\n

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The following communication, containing information on the situation in Haifa, has been received from Mr. Fletcher-Cooke of the United Kingdom Delegation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED KINGDOM DELEGATION TO THE Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS<\/p><\/div>\n

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Empire State Building, New York 1. N.Y.<\/p><\/div>\n

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URGENT<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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22nd April, 1948<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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My dear Bunch,<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Commission will no doubt wish to have the latest information available here about the position in Haifa.<\/p><\/div>\n

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2. Reports, which are subject to confirmation, have been received from Jerusalem to the effect that the situation in Haifa is as follows: –<\/p><\/div>\n

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(1) There has been heavy continuous fighting in Haifa Town since midday on the 21st April, after British Forces had withdrawn to positions covering the Port.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(2) Jewish attacks by night on Arab outposts at Burj Hill and Prophets’ Steps and on the Telephone Exchange were successful.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(3) Khoury House, the headquarters of the Palestine Railways, was set on fire and was gutted with all records.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(4) Jewish Forces have captured Salameh Building and positions in the Station Street – Burj Hill area and are now closing in on Khamra Square.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(5) The fire in the Port caused by mortaring has been extinguished.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(6) Heavy firing continues with mortaring of the Suq (market) area, which is reported deserted.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(7) Arabs are evacuating in large numbers by sea to Acre.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(8) Total casualties are believed to be heavy, including one British Constable wounded.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(9) British Police at the Haifa lock-up are being evacuated and the prisoners released.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(10) Military authorities are helping in the evacuation with landing-craft. The above Report is dated 9.40 a.m. Palestine Time, 22nd April,<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yours sincerely,<\/p><\/div>\n

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John Fletcher-Cooke (signed)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Ralph J. Bunche,<\/p><\/div>\n

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Principal Secretary to the<\/p><\/div>\n

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United Nations Commission on Palestine<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lake Success, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n

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22 April 1948 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS PALESTINE COMMISSION Communication Received from United Kingdom Delegation Concerning Position in Haifa The following communication, containing information on the situation in Haifa, has been received from Mr. Fletcher-Cooke of the United Kingdom Delegation. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED KINGDOM DELEGATION TO THE Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS Empire State Building, New York 1. N.Y. URGENT 22nd April, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[2321],"document-category":[3333,2841],"document-source":[1365,3357],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,4317,1857,2021,2613,1749,2741,2117],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-211084","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-united-kingdom","document-category-communication","document-category-letter","document-source-general-assembly","document-source-united-nations-palestine-commission-unpc","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-governance","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-incursions","document-subject-internally-displaced-persons","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-statehood-related","document-subject-terrorism","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/211084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/211084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=211084"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=211084"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=211084"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=211084"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=211084"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=211084"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=211084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}