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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 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—Avshalom ...
12 July – The Irgun kidnaps two British Intelligence Corps NCOs in Netanya, and threatens to kill them if Irgun members death row prisoners held in the Acre prison are executed. 18 July – Following wide media and UNSCOP coverage, the Exodus is captured by British troops and refused entry into Palestine at the port of Haifa.
Since the end of the Second World War, the campaign in the British Mandate of Palestine had cost the British 338 dead. [80] The numbers for the 6th Airborne Division between October 1945 and April 1948 were fifty-eight men dead and 236 wounded due to enemy action, a further ninety-nine men died, from causes not associated with a hostile act. [81]
The Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, known in the United Kingdom as the Palestine Emergency, [5] [6] was a paramilitary campaign carried out by Zionist militias and underground groups—including Haganah, Lehi, and Irgun—against British rule in Mandatory Palestine from 1944 to 1948.
An angry crowd massacred 39 Jewish people in revenge, until British soldiers reestablished calm. [23] [31] In reprisals, soldiers from the Palmach and the Carmeli brigade, attacked the villages of Balad ash-Sheikh and Hawassa. In what became known as the Balad al-Shaykh massacre, between 60 to 70 villagers were killed. [32] [33] [34]
The Irgun ostensibly deliberately provoked the British into declaring martial law, carrying out attacks throughout Palestine on March 1, 1947. The deadliest incident occurred at the British Officers' Club in Jerusalem which was bombed and subsequently became the site of a gunfight: twenty people were killed.
After Kimchi's sentence was carried out, armed Irgun squads were sent into the streets of Jewish cities throughout Palestine, with orders to abduct and flog British soldiers. In Netanya, armed Irgun men broke into the Hotel Metropole where they found Major Paddy Brett sitting with his wife in the lounge. He was kidnapped from the hotel, led to ...
Two British soldiers hanged by the Irgun in retaliation. On the following day, July 30, at 10:00, the funeral cortege of the three fighters proceeded towards the graveyard in Safed Old Jewish Cemetery in a convoy led by a military vehicle followed by a family car and the "chevra kadisha". Nakar was first to be buried followed by Weiss and Haviv.