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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]
In Jerusalem, an attack by Jewish fighters on a British security zone in Rehavia was repulsed. One attacker was killed and two captured. August 5 – Three British police officers were killed by a bomb at the Jerusalem Department of Labor building. [143] August 9 – Irgun bombed a British troop train north of Lydda, killing the Jewish engineer.
22 July – King David Hotel bombing: Irgun members detonate bombs in the basement of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where the British had brought a large amount of documents confiscated from the Jewish Agency for Israel. The attack kills 91 people and injures 45 more, mostly civilians.
The final findings of the inquest into the bombing: a copy is held by the State of Israel Archives, Jerusalem. Michael Quentin Morton, In the Heart of the Desert , Green Mountain Press, 2006, pp. 32–34 (photograph p. 44), for an eye-witness account of the immediate aftermath of the bombing by a geologist working for the Iraq Petroleum Company .
Israel imposed a crippling siege on Gaza in retaliation for Hamas’s attack, when militants stormed through villages and towns, killing hundreds of people and taking at least 224 people ...
Israel's military campaign - with the avowed intent of eradicating Hamas militants after the group's deadly raid on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 - has laid waste to the enclave of 2.3 million ...
The bombing was carried out by Palestinians from the village of Asira al-Shamaliya. [18] Three 14-year-old girls were killed in the attack: Sivann Zarka, Yael Botvin and Smadar Elhanan. [19] Elhanan was the daughter of peace activist Nurit Peled-Elhanan and the granddaughter of Israeli general and politician Mattityahu Peled. [citation needed]