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External media; Images "A Jewish cab is set ablaze by an angry mob near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem after a barrel bomb attack", December 29, 1947 "A dying Jewish raider is carried by two policemen and an Arab from a Muslim cemetery in Mamillah Road, Jerusalem, after barrel bombing Jaffa Gate and crashing there", January 7, 1948
Later that week, British troops shot and killed two Jews in Jerusalem, including a four-year-old girl who was standing on the porch of her home in Mea Shearim. [17] [18] British soldiers arrested militants throughout the Mandate. [19] In Jerusalem, a massive manhunt was underway for the suspects in the British Officers' Club bombing. [20]
2 February – 1948 Ben Yehuda Street Bombing: Three British Army trucks, led by an armoured car driven by Arab irregulars and British deserters, explode on Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, killing 58 Jewish civilians and injuring 140. [2] [3] 15 February – The first issue of the Hebrew language daily tabloid Maariv is published.
Irgun would become notorious for the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946, in which 91 people died, and the Deir Yassin Massacre on 9 April 1948, carried out in ...
April 16, 1947 An Irgun bomb placed at the Colonial Office in London failed to detonate. [53] The woman arrested for planting the bomb, alias "Esther," was identified as a Jewess claiming French nationality by the Scotland Yard unit investigating Jewish terrorist activities. The attack was linked to the 1946 Rome embassy bombing. [54] [55]
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 ...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, 19 October 2023. In the aftermath of the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, UK Prime Minister RIshi Sunak pledged the United Kingdom's support for Israel and declared that Israel "has an absolute right to defend itself". [52]
38th battalion of the Jewish Legion marching in London, 1918. Britain seized Palestine from the Ottoman Empire during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in World War I.Close cooperation between Britain and the Yishuv, the nascent pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, developed during this time, when Britain received intelligence from the Nili Jewish spy network, which assisted British forces ...