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The Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, known in the United Kingdom as the Palestine Emergency, [5] [6] was a paramilitary campaign carried out by Zionist militias and underground groups—including Haganah, Lehi, and Irgun—against British rule in Mandatory Palestine from 1944 to 1948.
The Jewish Infantry Brigade Group, [1] more commonly known as the Jewish Brigade Group [2] or Jewish Brigade, [3] was a military formation of the British Army in the Second World War. It was formed in late 1944 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and was recruited among Yishuv Jews from Mandatory Palestine and commanded by Anglo-Jewish officers.
1944, September 27 Unknown number of casualties, around 150 Irgun members attacked four British police stations [29] 1944, September 29 1 Senior British police officer of the Criminal Intelligence Department assassinated in Jerusalem. [29] 1945, November 1 5 locomotives destroyed in Lydda station. Two staff, one soldier and one policeman were ...
The Irgun (Hebrew: ארגון), officially the National Military Organization in the Land of Israel (Hebrew: הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל, romanized: HaIrgun HaTzvaʾi Ha-Leumi b-Eretz Israel; abbr. אצ״ל, romanized: Etzel or IZL), was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948.
30 August – Sir John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort assumes office as the High Commissioner of Palestine. 20 September – World War II: The Jewish Brigade group of the British Army is established. [1] 19 October – Irgun and Lehi members are deported by the Mandate authorities to internment camps in Africa.
As a Jewish militia, Hashomer, was established to protect the growing number of settlements, Palestinian pharmacist Najib Nassar set up a newspaper, Al-Karmel, to warn against what he considered ...
Both the Arab reports and Jewish responses had hidden motives: the Arab leaders wanted to encourage Palestinian Arabs to fight rather than surrender, to discredit the Zionists with international opinion, and to increase popular support in their countries for an invasion of Palestine. The Jewish leaders wanted to discredit Irgun and Lehi.
The Night of the Bridges (formally Operation Markolet) was a Haganah venture on the night of 16 to 17 June 1946 in the British Mandate of Palestine, as part of the Jewish insurgency in Palestine (1944–47).