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The Lehi Street bombing was a failed suicide bombing in Lehi Street (Hebrew: רחוב לח''י) in Tel Aviv, Israel, on August 18, 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, stating it was executed in collaboration with Palestinian Islamic Jihad .
Pages in category "Lehi (militant group) attacks" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Lehi bombing of Haifa police station; S. Shubaki ...
On January 12, 1947, the Lehi, a Zionist paramilitary group, bombed the British police station in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine with a truck laden with explosives. [1]: 299 [2] [3] It has been described as the first car bombing or truck bombing in history. [4] [5] The attack killed 4 and injured 142, and it ended a truce in Mandatory Palestine. [2]
Eleven Lehi members were killed during the attack. [citation needed] September 9 – Two British officers were killed by an explosion at a public building in Tel Aviv. A British police sergeant, T.G. Martin, who had identified and arrested Lehi leader and future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, was assassinated near his Haifa home. [12]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Fighters for the Freedom of Israel לוחמי חרות ישראל The hand represents the Lehi salute, with only two raised fingers on the right hand to represent the "If I forget thee / O Jerusalem...may my right hand forget its skill" (Ps. 137:5) pledge. The acronym "Lehi" is written below the ...
Police characterized it as a "brand new method." [15] The northern police HQ in Haifa came to their attention, but it was surrounded by sand-filled barrels and a mesh fence of barbed-wire. [14] Paglin set to work designing a bomb that could penetrate the fence and blow up the building. He hit on the idea of using an oil barrel. [14]
On February 27, the Irgun bombed the income taxes offices in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. On March 13, a Jewish police officer was killed by Lehi in Ramat Gan. Six days later, a Lehi member was shot and killed by police. With Lehi squads sent out to kill police in retribution, the British security forces remained in their stations.
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