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Arab Palestinian Youths First Conference was held in Jaffa. As a conclusion of the same, a critical national charter was ratified as a general charter for the Arab Palestinian youths. This charter stipulated the unity of the Arab countries and the necessity to resist all forms and aspects of colonization and occupation.
In this day, the Zionists bombed the Old Government House in Jaffa which was used by the Department of the Social Affairs as a shelter for poor and orphans. Seven Arabs were killed and over one hundred were injured, most of whom were children and elderly sheltering there.
Haganah gangs blasted Samiramis Hotel in Katamon, Jerusalem. The hotel was destroyed over the heads of its Arabs guests killing eighteen men and women and wounding about twenty. Amongst the objective of this attack was to assassinate Abdul Kader El Husseini who was with some of the Sacred Jihad men. El Husseini had left the Hotel, however, moments before the blast.
The Zionist terrorists threw a barrel of explosives among the crowded masses at Hebron – Jerusalem gate . As a result, twenty Arabs were killed and thirty six others were injured. This operation was conducted by an armored vehicle of the English police. The vehicle was chased by the Arabs who killed one of the criminals. They also revenged the souls of their martyrs in the same day by wounding seven English policemen. The latter, however, killed three Arab brothers.
This day was declared as a ‘Martyr’s Day’ to glorify the martyrs of Palestine.
Yarmouk Second Battalion of the Salvation Army crossed the Palestinian borders to Safad Sector through Bent Jbeil. One of the brigades in the same battalion comprised of two hundred volunteers from east bank of Palestine. Among the officers of this brigade were Presidents Elie Jmaian and Sarry El Fneish who withdrew from Safad on May 11 and surrendered it to the Jews without any fight.
A violent fight broke out today between the Arab volunteers fighters who came from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine and the Jewish settlers in Houla. The Arab attack took place at the early hours of the dawn and lasted until 9:00 a.m.
Jordanian students in Algeria who broke in the Jordanian Embassy there found a telegram sent by Wasfi El Tal, Jordan’s Prime Minister, to the Jordanian Ambassador in Algeria, Mohamad Nazzal Al Armouti. The Prime Minister asked the Ambassador to make it clear for the Algerian government that Jordan shall not allow any Palestinian who holds a Jordanian passport to be military trained in Algeria. Moreover, the Ambassador shall have to make it clear, by any means possible, for the Algerian government that Jordan would practice its rights to take the necessary measures if the Algerian government didn’t respond to the same.
Thus, six months before the War of June, West Bank citizens were under siege in their opportunity to be militarily trained even in Algeria while the enemy youths were training on the finest weapons and the latest fighting arts day and night.
Two days ago, in Paris, the Zionist Intelligence assassinated Mahmoud El Hamshary, representative of the Palestinian Revolution in France. This assassination, followed by similar ones to many of the Revolution’s figures throughout Europe, took place in the aftermath of many eminent successes achieved by these figures in conveying the Palestinian case into the masses and political organizations there. They helped prove the deception of Zionist allegations which had deformed the Arab Palestinian face in the next twenty years which followed the conquering of Palestine. Also, these assassinations took place after the many military successes achieved by the Palestinian Revolution in chasing the forces of the Israeli Intelligence.
The General Commandment of the Stern Forces released its second military announcement in which it claimed the responsibility for attacking the Jordan River Deviation facilities and hit the determined targets.
Zionist, London-based Jewish Chronicle published the news of establishing the first Jewish settlement over the Golan Heights.
Jews shot the Iraqi Ambassador’s car while traveling Jerusalem – Hebron route from Deir El Chaar location, east of Kfar Assion settlement. The Arab fighters decided to take control of the settlement, so they attacked it without any plan. However, they lost the battle and fourteen were killed and twenty four others were injured.
For the first time, the Palestinian militants attacked the oil containers in Akaba Port, known for Zionist as Illat.
Palestinian militants hit in Haifa a Zionist car loaded with explosives while passing through Hashomir Street. The explosion destroyed and cracked over fifteen buildings nearby. The British Army revenged for the Jews as they immediately attacked Nasnas Valley area and they stole the houses and stores there. They also blasted one of the houses and confiscated all the weapons there.
Palestinian militants bombed the Illat oil contains for the second time in twenty four hours with mortar shells setting them on fire.
Zionists attacked Kfar Kenna, near Nazareth, as a revenge for their defeat before Al Sbeih tribe thirteen days ago, but the village’s fighters repelled and foiled the attack. In Haifa, Jews borrowed some British military uniforms and sneaked into Amarat Al Maghrabi and blasted it over the heads of its Arab civilian residents. Meanwhile, the third and fourth brigades of the West Bank Army were in Haifa on the basis of the immediate orders from “Globe Basha”, Commander of the British Army.
Jordanian authorities relief eleven officers from their posts in the Army within a long list of relief in the aftermath of the famous Zionist attack on the armless village of Smouah on November 13 of the previous year.
Al Moujahidoun (Sacred Fighters) revenged for their lost battle in Mount Hebron with the group of settlements in Kfar Assion. They put about sixty Zionist settlers who sneaked from the nearby settlements through the valleys to support this group of settlements as a precaution of a revenge attack. These sixty settlers were besieged in ‘Zahr El Heja’ near ‘Sourif’. Although these settlers were completely were killed by the fighters, Jerusalem Post, the Jewish newspaper, divulged that only thirty five were killed. The success of this operation was credited to Ibrahim Abou Daia, who is considered the second man after Abdul Kader El Husseini in the war of the first resistance in the southern sector of Palestine.
Zionists tried to clear and move their corpses in Sourif battle. They prepared a convoy of armored vehicles on Beit Netif route. The fighters, however, blocked the convoy and killed thirteen Jews. The British mandate authority interfered and delivered the corpses for the Jews.
Sessions of the Unity and Coordination Conference among different organizations working on the battlefield began in Cairo on this day. Eight commando organizations participated in this conference which is considered the first step towards national unity during which Fattah Movement delivered its famous slogan ‘To meet over the battlefield’.
Three aircrafts raided the railway station in Gaza and dropped nine bombs, killing and injuring thirteen civilians. During the British mandate for Palestine, Jews had and used air forces.
Yarmouk First Battalion entered Palestine through Daraa – Jordan River – Bissan under the commandment of Lieutenant Colonel Mohamad Safa. This battalion consisted of Syrian and Palestinian volunteers who had been training in Katna Camp. They were welcomed with extreme joy and they stayed at Nablus near Toubas. When the army arrived at Daraa the night before, King Abdullah hesitated to allow it to enter the West Bank. He called the British Commissioned Minister in Amman Sir Kirkbride who objected to the battalion’s entry claiming that Britain was still responsible for the security in Palestine and the Jordanian government is not allowed to increase the troubles of its alley Britain. However, Kirkbride, after consulting Globe Basha, allowed the entry of the said battalion into Palestine provided that the battalion doesn’t reach Jerusalem or camp in a Jewish area pursuant to the Division Resolution of Palestine. This is what has exactly happened. The operations of the Salvation Army were concentrated in the Arab areas of the Division Map whereas the other parts remained in the heart of the battle unarmed.
The fighters conducted their first organized attack in Acco destroying a big number of houses in Yham settlement. An unspecified number of Jews were killed in the attack and the fighters didn’t retreat from the area until great forces of the British Army arrived in the scene after the SOS signals made by the settlers.
The Jewish Agency bought twenty one Oster path-finding aircrafts that were the property of the British Army in Palestine. Britain justified the deal by stating that it was legally reached as it was selling the British military leftovers. The Jewish Agency received these aircrafts at Tel Aviv Airport, which is declared to be civil but in fact it was a military airport.
Beit Sourik battle took place when some members of the Sacred Jihad knew that a convoy was on its way into Jerusalem. Chaim Weizmann was reported as one of its members. A fifty-man squad of Al Moujahidin from the villages of Jerusalem, Ramallah and Hebron headed by Abdulkader El Husseini, Ibrahim Abou Daia and Fawzi Kotob confronted with the convoy. A force from the Balmach tried to ease the pressure on the convoy by attacking Beit Sourik. Immediately, help came from the near by villages to defend the Beit Sourik. As a result, thirty four Jews were killed and twenty were injured. On the other side, one of the Moujahidin martyred and five of them were injured, including Ibrahim Abou Daia.
King Hussein stated in his speech in Jerusalem Day that the Jewish attack on Al Samouah village (far in the south) was expected due to the tension over the Syrian borders (far in the north). The King pointed out that the militant activities are considered to be dangerous on the country, particularly that the enemy is covetous to subjoin the West Bank.
Fawzi Kawokji entered Palestine with a two thousand soldiers of the Salvation Army. He first camped in Toubas. British stipulated that Kawokji was not to wage any war before they left Palestine and that he was to camp in an Arab section pursuant to the Division Resolution.
In Jerusalem, a national committee was formed. The same committee was formed in every Palestinian city separately for the purposes of civil defense. Nonetheless, the activities of the National Committee were soon confined to beneficiary and philanthropic affairs under the claims that defensive affairs was the responsibility of the military committee springing from the Arab League and whose headquarters was in Damascus. When the massacre of Deir Yassine took place, this committee efficiently participated in sheltering the departed and orphans.
Government of Jordan sent a memorandum to the Arab League to withdraw its recognition in the Palestinian Liberation Organization. It also declared that it shall boycott all other organizations emanating from the summit conferences of the League to which Al Choukairi participates in such as the Arab Unified Commandment and the Council of Investing the River of Jordan and its branches.
The starting off of Al Asifa Forces (Storm Forces) which released a statement in the occasion confirming that arms were the only option to liberate the land and that it shall not lay arms down until that objective is achieved.
New York Times revealed the eighty-million-dollar, American-made M-48 tanks deal. The tanks were on their way to be delivered to the Zionist enemy through West Germany.
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