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The Sergeants affair (Hebrew: פרשת הסרג'נטים) was an incident that took place in Mandate Palestine in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice, and threatened to hang them if the death sentences passed on three Irgun militants ...
[5] [6] [7] According to Benny Morris the Yishuv (or later Israeli) soldiers killed roughly 800 Arab civilians and prisoners of war in 24 massacres. [5] Aryeh Yizthaki list 10 major massacres with more than 50 victims each. [8] Palestinian researcher Salman Abu-Sitta lists 33 massacres, half of them occurring during the civil war period. [8]
October 27–28, 1933. British police. 4. 4 Palestinian rioters killed, 1 policeman stabbed, 3 Palestinian rioters wounded, 5 Jewish civilians injured by rioters, 4 of them seriously. Jaffa riots (April 1936) April 19–20, 1936. Arabs. 21. 9 Jews killed, 40 Jews wounded (11 critically) in Arab attack in Jaffa.
One British soldier was killed and eight were wounded. A British camp near Karkur was also raided, shots were fired at the Sarona camp, and a mine exploded near Rishon LeZion. March 23 – One British soldier was killed when a train on the Cairo-Haifa line hit a mine in Rehovot. [129]
9 April: 123 killed 300 wounded [ 3 ] The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Partition Plan for Palestine. [ 4 ]
The future Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, then an officer in the British Army, leaked the order to the press. Barker's wording was interpreted as antisemitic and caused much outrage and bad publicity for the British. Barker was nearly dismissed from his position over the scandal, and only Montgomery's threat to resign if Barker was sacked saved ...
The operation was a decisive Israeli victory, and Israeli raids into the Nitzana area and the Sinai Peninsula forced the Egyptian army into the Gaza Strip, where it was surrounded. Israeli forces withdrew from Sinai and Gaza under international pressure and after the British threatened to intervene against Israel.
British Empire, Arab rioters. Not applicable 4 4: 23 31 Jaffa riots: British Army, Arab rioters. unknown unknown 48: 73 121 1929 Palestine riots, British Army. Palestine Police Force, Betar. Arab rioters. 116 rioters [1] unknown 116 Arabs 133 Jews 232 Arabs 198 Jews 679 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine: British Army, Haganah, Arab High Command.