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2. To prevent treacherous attacks and surprise incidents, we propose establishing fortifications and trenches around all the refugee camps and arranging guards there day and night.

Organizing camp guards in this manner would prevent the recurrence of Jewish treachery and aggression against the refugees. The Egyptian authorities had tested this in practice when they permitted the owners of the orange groves at al-Birat in the Gaza Strip to appoint armed guards to prevent Jewish attacks on them. This prevented the Jews from attacking those groves, even though they had repeatedly entered them before the guards existed, vandalized them, and caused their owners heavy losses.

We believe that this measure, which proved effective in protecting the groves, will certainly be effective in protecting the refugee camps from surprise attacks by Jewish gangs.

We sincerely hope that Your Excellency will give these proposals every care and attention, God willing.

Please accept our highest greetings and abundant respect.

29 Muharram 1373 8 October 1953

President of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

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Arab Higher Committee for Palestine No. S/132/3/1956

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

To Major General of Staff Abd al-Hakim Amer, commander-in-chief of the Egyptian armed forces, may God preserve him.

Peace, God’s mercy, and His blessings be upon you. The repeated attacks by the Jews, which have grown in intensity, violence, and dangerous development day after day, herald the more dangerous and far-reaching attacks they are plotting. The attacks that took place in recent weeks against the neighboring Arab countries demonstrate by their nature and purpose the danger threatening the Arab nation’s existence in the rest of Palestine and in the neighboring Arab countries