Armed soldiers patrol in formation as officers inspect them outside the Mustaphsha Police Station in Jerusalem, Palestine. Israeli flag flies above building. Soldier stops a couple walking by to inspect their papers. Scene changes to crowds near a wrecked building after an attack, as people gather outside it. Injured persons being carried on stretchers. Possibly aftermath of Ben Yehuda Street bombings of February 1948.
A caravan of British troops on camels, proceeds from the captured city of Jerusalem, to engage Ottoman forces in Palestine. They are seen moving across the desert in a line that appears to stretch for a mile. Scene changes to remains of a well and its apparatus that has been destroyed by retreating Ottoman forces.
Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club in Jerusalem. British soldiers pulling out an injured man from the ruins of the Goldsmith Officers Club. Rescue workers carry wounded to an ambulance. An empty street and its buildings after the declaration of Martial Law in Palestine. Laundry hanging in a courtyard outside a building. British soldiers lay down barbed wire on the street. A Bedford MW 4x2 truck with British troops drives away. Some soldiers march on foot. A group of universal carriers (also known as Bren gun carriers) drive through the streets. Some Palestinian civilians watch the universal carriers from the sidewalk. A white truck with the Star of David drives past a universal carrier. A British solider guards two suspects as they walk down a road.
British Palestine troops search for suspects following the Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club in Jerusalem on 1 March 1947. British soldiers marching up the stairs of a building. Soldiers escort suspected terrorists away. Jewish men suspected of having ties to the Goldsmith Officers Club bombing are detained by British officers. Some journalists are seen holding cameras. Jewish men and women suspected of having ties to the Irgun and Stern Gang are detained on a tennis court. A detained Jewish man smiles while waiting in line to enter the tennis court. A soldier frisks a Jewish man for weapons.
United States sailor on a car passes along the Tomb of Rachel (Qever Rahel, Hebron Road, Jerusalem) to Bethlehem. United States Navy sailors go into the Church of Nativity. Men and women walk by the door of humility at the Church of the Nativity (Manger Square Bethlehem, State of Palestine) in Bethlehem.
Jewish refugees from Europe arriving in Palestine after World War 2. Crowd of people enter a railway car. Police guarding security check point made of sandbags outside train station as a convoy of military trucks carrying Jewish passengers pulls up. Jewish women and men climb down from back of a truck. An Arab shepherd tends his grazing goats as convoy of trucks passes on road behind him. Palestinian women and men in train platform. Sign above platform directs travelers to different platforms for Jerusalem and Haifa. Smiling Jewish families, including a small boy holding his father's hand, queue up at the railroad train station. People waving good-bye from train windows as train departs the station.