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Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities
1944 - 1947
13 events

Lists the numerous and deadly armed attacks and acts of sabotage carried out by Zionist terrorist groups, the Irgun and the Stern Gang, against British Mandate authorities,  including the bombing of the King David Hotel housing the British civilian administration.

King David Hotel

On 22 July 1946 Menachem Begin , then head of the Irgun , ordered the blowing up of the south wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem , which housed the central offices of the civilian administration. 91 civil servants and civilian visitors were killed, of whom 41 were Arab, 28 British, and 17 Jewish. On 24 July 1946, civilians and soldiers still attempt to rescue victims trapped in the ruins.

24 July 1946
Source: 
Imperial War Museum collection
Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities
E.g., 2024/12/13
E.g., 2024/12/13

Late Mandate

1944

1945

1946

The Palestine War And The Nakba

1947

1948

1949

Reverberations of the Palestine War

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957