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2 Arabs killed on Bat Yam beach. [12] 1937, November 14 10 Arabs killed by Irgun units launching attacks around Jerusalem, ("Black Sunday") [13] [14] 1938, April 12 2 Arabs and 2 British policemen were killed by a bomb in a train in Haifa. [14] 1938, April 17 1 Arab was killed by a bomb detonated in a cafe in Haifa [14] 1938, May 17
The Sergeants affair (Hebrew: פרשת הסרג'נטים) was an incident that took place in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun abducted 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—Avshalom ...
The Hebrew version has an additional line saying that among the 92 people killed was an Irgun member shot dead. To prevent a diplomatic incident, and over the objections of Knesset member Reuven Rivlin (Likud), who raised the matter in the Knesset, changes were made in the plaque's text, though to a greater degree in English than the Hebrew ...
Irgun had accused him of the torture of a number of its members. [34] [35] Cairns and Ronald Barker, another British police officer, were killed by a remotely detonated Irgun landmine. [36] The British increased their efforts against the Irgun. As a result, on August 31 the British police arrested members meeting in the Irgun headquarters.
The consensus gradually formed in Britain that it was time to leave Palestine. Meanwhile, the Irgun launched a new wave of attacks on the railway system and an Irgun member was killed in an attack on an RAF billet in Jerusalem. Three British policemen were killed when the Irgun bombed the Jerusalem Labor Department building on August 5.
16 Arabs killed; 67 Arabs wounded from bombings in Jerusalem and Jaffa; Irgun also burns down 100 Arab homes in Jaffa [1] N/A December 16, 1947 10 10 killed by bomb at Noga Cinema in Jaffa. [34] al-Khisas massacre: December 18, 1947 10 10 Arabs killed [1] N/A December 24, 1947 8 4 Jews killed in Haifa by snipers, 4 Arabs killed in reprisals [1] N/A
February 26 – Irgun and Lehi fighters attacked three British airfields and destroyed dozens of aircraft. One Irgun fighter was killed. [10] April 25 – Lehi fighters attacked a Tel Aviv car park that was being used by the British Army's 6th Airborne Division, killing seven British soldiers and looting the arms racks they found. They then ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Deir Yassin massacre Part of the Nakba, 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and Plan Dalet Jewish paramilitaries in Deir Yassin Location Deir Yassin, Mandatory Palestine Date April 9, 1948 (1948-04-09) [a] Target Palestinian Arab villagers Weapons Firearms, grenades, and explosives Deaths ...