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1947 - Middle East, Palestine: World Focus on Palestine (Violence). Jul-Aug47

Reel Number: 220656-15

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947,1940s

Country: France,Israel,Palestine

Location: Jaffa

TC Begins: 23:19:05

TC Ends: 23:20:44

Duration: 00:01:39

1947 - Middle East, Palestine: World Focus on Palestine (Violence). Jul-Aug47 23:19:09 High Angle / HA British troops on street after terrorist bomb attack on Department of Labour / Labor building; soldiers dig out injured & remove from building. 23:19:27 Unsafe walls torn down. Troops search & dig in rubble. Small crowd of civilians watch from behind barbed wire. Jewish men searched on streets before passing thru barbed wire roadblock. Narration refers to Jewish extremists (re Stern Gang and Etsel (Irgun)) hanging 2 British sergeants (on 30Jul47). 23:20:00 Refugee ship Runnymede Park returning illegal immigrants to France. Displaced Persons / DPs removed from the Exodus on Runnymede Park refuse to disembark - emergency food rations, French baguettes, wine etc. sent to ship. Women & children in need of medical attention taken ashore. Injured on stretchers into ambulances. Revolutionaries; Freedom Fighters; Terrorists; Violence; Holy Land; Curfews; 1940s; Post-WW2; Post-WWII;

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