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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 ...
UN 1947 partition plan for Palestine. 7 January – The founding of the kibbutz Mivtahim. 26 January – Irgun members kidnap a British intelligence officer two days before the planned execution date of the Irgun member Dov Gruner. 27 January – Irgun members kidnap the British President of the district court of Tel Aviv.
In April 1947 the issue was formally referred to the UN. By this time over 100,000 British soldiers were stationed in Palestine. Referral to the UN led to a period of uncertainty over Palestine's future. A United Nations committee, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was sent to investigate the problem. On August 31, 1947 ...
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]
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]
Based on the novel Panther in the Basement by author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Starring Alfred Molina and featuring Theodore Bikel , this is a coming of age tale of the unlikely bond between a kind British soldier and a spirited Jewish boy set against the ...
1947, March 1 17 British officers killed, during bombing of the Goldschmidt Officer's Club. [40] 1947, March 12 1 British soldier killed during the attack on Schneller Camp. [40] 1947, June 18 One Haganah member killed by a booby trap while sealing a tunnel dug by Irgun to blow up the British Headquarter in Citrus House, Tel Aviv. [41] [42 ...
Irgun men disguised as British soldiers. The break-out was originally planned for April, but was eventually rescheduled for Sunday, May 4, 1947, at 4 p.m., the day the United Nations General Assembly convened to discuss the Palestine issue. The Irgun High Command selected 41 prisoners for escape: 30 Irgun and 11 Lehi, as that was the available ...