sentences:  The Jewish population looted the Arab areas and had to be suppressed by force by the Haganah and Jewish police, who killed or injured several looters.On 30 December 1948, when David Ben-Gurion was staying in Tiberias, James Grover McDonald, the United States ambassador to Israel, requested to meet with him.McDonald presented a British ultimatum for Israeli troops to leave the Sinai peninsula, Egyptian territory.