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King David Hotel after being targeted in the terrorist attack by the Zionist organization Irgun, 1946. On July 22, 1946, the southwestern corner of the hotel was bombed during a terrorist attack by the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun. 91 people of various nationalities, including Britons, Arabs and Jews, were killed and 45 people were injured [1] [3] by the militant right-wing group. [4]
The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing [1] of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack [2] [3] on 22 July 1946, by the militant right-wing [4] Zionist underground organization Irgun during the Jewish insurgency.
91 people were killed at the bombing of the King David Hotel (which was the British headquarters), mostly civilians, staff of the hotel or Secretariat, 41 Arabs, 15-28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian. [34] [35] [36] 1946, October 30
The standard Zionist narrative of the war remained unchallenged outside the Arab world until the war's fortieth anniversary, when a number of critical books came out, including Simha Flapan's The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities (1987), Benny Morris's The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (1987), Ilan Pappé's Britain and the Arab ...
There was another king in Jerusalem, Araunah, during and possibly before David's control of the city, [5] who was probably the Jebusite king of Jerusalem. [6] The city, which at that point stood upon the Ophel, was expanded to the south and declared by David to be the capital city of the Kingdom of Israel. David also constructed an altar at the ...
Operation Shark was a counter-terrorism operation conducted by the military and police forces of British Mandatory Palestine in response to the King David Hotel bombing. Conducted through a series of house to house searches, the operation was intended to deprive the Irgun organization of manpower, hideouts, and weaponry. [1] [2] [3]
Throughout its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, besieged 23 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, and attacked 52 times. [9] The part of Jerusalem called the City of David shows first signs of settlement in the 4th millennium BCE, in the shape of encampments of nomadic shepherds. [10]
City of David: 1000 BCE: Second Temple Period: 538 BCE–70 CE: Aelia Capitolina: 130–325 CE: Byzantine: 325–638 CE: Early Muslim: 638–1099: Crusader: 1099–1187