Official Poster by the British Mandate during the 1929 Riots / Photo of a family wounded in the riots

Official Poster by the British Mandate during the 1929 Riots / Photo of a family wounded in the riots

Official poster by the British Mandate during the 1929 riots announcing that His Majesty's forces are working to suppress the riots and will not hesitate to use force "against peacebreakers without distinction" / Photo of a Jewish family - three generations of wounded from the Arab 1929 riots.

• Poster text: "Announcement: I hereby notify the Palestinian public that His Majesty's forces are acting in this country for the sole purpose of suppressing the current disturbances and restoring order. Exceptional methods of suppression will be avoided as far as possible, but the forces will not hesitate to use force against peacebreakers without distinction. H. C. LUKE Government Administrator. August 25, 1929". This poster was published at the height of the riots the day after the Hebron massacre in which 67 Jews were murdered. It should be noted that the massacre occurred when the British police officer responsible for the Hebron police, Raymond Cafferata, did not lift a finger to stop the murderers and two British mounted policemen watched the massacre without doing anything. Only when the murderers started approaching those same Britons and felt threatened themselves, one of them fired into the air, the murderers fled and the massacre ended. Size: 30x20 cm. Upper left corner restored. Minor tear on the left. Good condition. 

• Press photo of a family wounded in the Arab riots near Jerusalem described on the back on a piece of paper from the N.E.A. photo agency: "Victims of the Muslim Raid in Palestine Three generations of victims of a Muslim attack on their home on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The father, daughter and granddaughter were injured by the Arab attackers". Dated on the back: September 17, 1929 - about two weeks after the riots subsided. Size: 21x15 cm. Open tear in the lower right corner. Good condition.