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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 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 ...
December 29, 1947 13 11 Arabs, 2 Britons killed [1] [36] Uri Milstein reported 15 casualties from the bombing in the Palestine Post. [37] Haifa Oil Refinery massacre: December 30, 1947 39 Arabs beat 39 Jews to death and injured 49 after an Irgun bombing which killed 6 [1] Balad al-Shaykh massacre: January 1, 1948 50 17–70 Arabs killed in ...
The overall death toll between December 1947 and January 1948 (including British personnel) was estimated at 1,000 people, with 2,000 injured. [51] Ilan Pappé estimates that 400 Jews and 1,500 Arabs were killed by January 1948. [52] Morris says that by the end of March 1948, the Yishuv had suffered about a thousand dead. [53]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine and the decolonisation of Asia Palestine Railway K class 2-8-4T steam locomotive and freight train derailed from the Jaffa and Jerusalem line after being sabotaged by Jewish insurgents in 1946 Date 1 ...
11 July – The Exodus leaves France for Palestine, with 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivor refugees on board who have no legal immigration certificates to enter Palestine. 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.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. King David Hotel bombing Part of the Jewish insurgency in Palestine The hotel after the bombing Location Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine Date 22 July 1946 12:37 pm (UTC +2) Target King David Hotel Attack type Zionist terrorism, bombing, mass murder Deaths 91 Injured 46 Perpetrators Irgun Motive ...
The soldiers were hanged and their bodies booby-trapped and left in a grove near Netanya. This operation shocked Britain, despite the explicit threat beforehand, and brought to an end hanging of Jews in the British Mandate of Palestine. Meir Nakar, Yaakov Weiss and Avshalom Haviv were the last to ascend the British gallows.
2 British guards killed during Gunfire and explosion at Jerusalem Railway Station. [37] 1946, October 31 Bombing of the British Embassy in Rome. Nearly half the building was destroyed and 3 people were injured. [38] 1946, November 13 6 Palestine police (2 British, 4 Arabs) killed in bombing of railway line. [39] 1947, March 1