HC Deb 12 May 1948 vol 450 c219W
28. Mr. Marples

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many Jews, Arabs and British people, both civilian and military, have been killed in Palestine from 1st July, 1946, to the present date.

Mr. Rees-Williams

The numbers of British subjects killed in Palestine between 1st July, 1946, and 5th May, 1948, are as follows: —Armed Forces, 213; police, 77; other civilians, 28. No accurate figures of Arab and Jewish casualties during this period are available, but approximate numbers of those killed on both sides between the 1st October, 1947 and the 5th May, 1948, so far as is known to the authorities, are; Arabs, 1,400; Jews, 1,100.

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