{"id":211341,"date":"1948-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=211341"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:09:48","slug":"auto-insert-211341","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-211341\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Palestine Commission – Situation in Haifa – Letter from United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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26 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 Delegation Concerning Haifa Situation<\/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
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New York 1, N.Y.<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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26th April, 1948.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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

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In continuation of <\/span>my letter of the 23rd April<\/a>, the following additional Information was included in the <\/span>Third Report on the Situation in Haifa<\/i><\/span> just received from Jerusalem:-<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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(1) On the morning of the 25th April, the situation in Haifa Town was described as very much quieter and it was reported that normal life was being resumed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(2) General Headquarters reported that some military stores trains 'ere still being operated by the military.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(3) The Haifa workshops were still operating.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(4) It was also reported that attempts to secure a truce had failed and that the Arabs had decided to evacuate the Town.<\/p><\/div>\n

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2. The following information contained in the Fourth Report on the Situation in Haifa<\/i> has just been received:-<\/p><\/div>\n

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(1) On the afternoon of the 25th April, the situation in Haifa Town was reported to be quiet.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(2) During the night of April 23rd\/24th there was practically no shooting in the Town though a small skirmish occurred in a village outside Haifa where British troops intervened and restored order.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(3) The Arabs, especially in the poorer quarters, were continuing to evacuate but the general exodus had almost ceased.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(4) It was estimated that some five thousand persons in all had evacuated the Town.<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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s\/ (J. Fletcher-Cooke)<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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

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Commission on Palestine,<\/p><\/div>\n

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United Nations, Lake Success.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

26 April 1948 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS PALESTINE COMMISSION Communication Received from United Kingdom Delegation Concerning Haifa Situation 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 26th April, 1948. […]<\/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":[1769,1829,2265,4317,1857,2021,1749,2385,2741],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-211341","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-ceasefire","document-subject-governance","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-incursions","document-subject-palestine-question","document-subject-security-issues","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/211341","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\/211341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=211341"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=211341"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=211341"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=211341"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=211341"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=211341"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=211341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}