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For all these reasons, the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine hopes that your honored committee’s present meeting will devote substantial serious attention to Jerusalem and will take all the rapid and effective military measures to repel the Jews from their planned aggression against the holy city, upon which the honor, holy places, glories, and history of the Arab nation depend.

Please accept our highest respect.

2 Safar 1373 10 October 1953

President of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

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On the occasion of the savage attack carried out by the armed Jewish forces against the Gaza area on 28 February 1955, in which a large number of inhabitants were killed, and in view of what this painful incident confirmed about the need to train and arm the population and fortify the Gaza area, the Arab Committee submitted the following memorandum to Major General Abd al-Hakim Amer:

Arab Higher Committee for Palestine No. S/132/3/97

To His Excellency Major General Staff Abd al-Hakim Amer, Minister of War and the Navy and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Cairo

Peace, God’s mercy, and His blessings be upon you. The Arab Higher Committee for Palestine expresses its strong condemnation of the savage, treacherous attack carried out by the armed Jewish forces against the Gaza area on the evening of 28 February 1955, in which dozens of innocent lives were lost. It expresses its great pain and sorrow over what occurred during the demonstrations from some innocent elements who infiltrated among the demonstrators and tried to exploit them for bad purposes. It affirms that all Palestinians carry in their hearts the most sincere feelings and the most genuine thanks and appreciation for what Egypt has done and continues to do to protect this Arab Palestinian sector and improve the condition of its inhabitants, refugees and others.