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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 ...
The Night of the Beatings (Hebrew: ליל ההלקאות) refers to an Irgun operation carried out on December 29, 1946, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in which several British soldiers were kidnapped and flogged in retribution for a corporal punishment handed down to an Irgun member.
12 November – The Murder of the Lehi Youth: Acting on a tip from the Shubaki family, the British raid a house where Lehi youth are conducting a training exercise. Three girls and two boys ages 16-18 are killed while trying to escape. 16 November – The United Kingdom begins withdrawing its army troops from Palestine. [citation needed]
#23 Two Young Boys Standing Barefoot On Moving Electric Looms In Order To Reach The Top Shelf While At Work In A Cotton Mill In Georgia, 1910. ... #50 Lucky British Soldier Showing Off His Damaged ...
The explosion of a second bomb at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The hotel housed the Military headquarters for all armed forces in Palestine as well as the offices of the Palestine Government. The attack on the hotel was the biggest blow struck against British rule in Palestine by fighters of the Jewish 'Irgun' organisation.
English: British Forces in the Middle East, 1945-1947 Brigadier Johnson, who commanded 'Operation Polly' (the evacuation of all non-essential personnel from Palestine) has a word with an evacuee who is about to leave Lydda station on the last evacuation train for Egypt.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, the 1948 Palestine War and the decolonisation of Asia Palestinian fighters in front of a burning Haganah armoured supply truck near the city of Jerusalem (March 1948) Date 30 November 1947 – 14 ...
JERUSALEM — Among the children in the Gaza Strip who have survived nearly 11 months of war is a new generation of orphans and amputees. And then, there’s 8-year-old Sama. Though she still has ...