Day 5 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

On the last day of the Arab Higher Committee's three-day strike against the UN partition plan, residents of יפו YAFO demonstrated against the stoppage. Historian Itamar Radai dates the protest to the strike's last day and reports that bakeries and food warehouses were ransacked amid worsening shortages. The protest was a local challenge to the Committee's policy, not an endorsement of partition or Jewish sovereignty.¹

Opponents of the strike in Jaffa held protest demonstrations against it on its last day.²

The demonstration reveals a division within the city at the beginning of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT. It cannot be used to measure how many residents opposed the strike. Radai describes petitions urging the Committee to end it, while noting that most residents observed it, often reluctantly. A declaration by the Committee did not make every Arab resident of ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL a willing participant in its strategy.³

A fuller source study of this episode is available at Residents of יפו YAFO protested the partition strike..

Yosef Klir's 1952 chronicle reports that more than 500 יהודים YEHUDIM he called “refugees” from the יפו YAFO boundary areas had reached תל אביב TEL AVIV by the previous evening. The entry is dated 4 December 1947 and refers to arrivals by the evening before it; it does not identify an expelling authority or a formal order.⁴

The focused source discussion is retained in event://5708־09־Dd־jewish־residents־displaced־from־jaffa. Its event date and this daily article’s civil-day route are not automatically the same.

This is Day 5 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1947-12-04. Its OTD route, 5708-09-21, is the daytime fixed-Hebrew conversion of that civil date, not a claim that every action mentioned here occurred before sunset.⁵ The adjacent Hebrew date after local sunset is 22 Kislev 5708 (5708-09-22). Radai dates the protest to the last day of the 2–4 December strike; its hour is unknown. Klir's entry labeled 4 December says the reported arrivals had occurred by the previous evening, so they are not assigned as new departures on 4 December. Newspaper issue dates, dispatch dates and later testimony are kept distinct from occurrence dates.

• Which event or report fixes the date of this day’s main account?
• What record would resolve the most important remaining timing or casualty question?