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Barrel bombs were used in Israel and Palestine during 1947–1948. They were first used by militant Zionist groups in Mandatory Palestine against the British.They were later used by Jews against Arabs, and also by Arabs against Jewish targets, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, 19 October 2023. In the aftermath of the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, UK Prime Minister RIshi Sunak pledged the United Kingdom's support for Israel and declared that Israel "has an absolute right to defend itself". [52]
Later that week, British troops shot and killed two Jews in Jerusalem, including a four-year-old girl who was standing on the porch of her home in Mea Shearim. [17] [18] British soldiers arrested militants throughout the Mandate. [19] In Jerusalem, a massive manhunt was underway for the suspects in the British Officers' Club bombing. [20]
Israel imposed a crippling siege on Gaza in retaliation for Hamas’s attack, when militants stormed through villages and towns, killing hundreds of people and taking at least 224 people ...
In Jerusalem, an attack by Jewish fighters on a British security zone in Rehavia was repulsed. One attacker was killed and two captured. August 5 – Three British police officers were killed by a bomb at the Jerusalem Department of Labor building. [142] August 9 – Irgun bombed a British troop train north of Lydda, killing the Jewish engineer.
The final findings of the inquest into the bombing: a copy is held by the State of Israel Archives, Jerusalem. Michael Quentin Morton, In the Heart of the Desert , Green Mountain Press, 2006, pp. 32–34 (photograph p. 44), for an eye-witness account of the immediate aftermath of the bombing by a geologist working for the Iraq Petroleum Company .
[12] 79 Jews, mainly doctors and nurses, are killed in the attack. 14 May – The Declaration of Independence of Israel is made in Tel Aviv, the day before the British Mandate of Palestine is due to expire. 15 May – At midnight between 14 and 15 May, the British Mandate is officially terminated and the State of Israel comes into being.
There has been a general surge in violence across the West Bank since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel, which triggered Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and a wider ...