Allenby Road Grenade Attack – Apr 1947
Date: 19/04/1947
Location: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Perpetrators: Irgun
Victims: 2 police constables injured
What Happened?
19 April 1947: A grenade was thrown at two police constables from a moving taxi in which sat four armed militants. The grenade blast injured two police constables, and the assailants were successful in escaping.
The local police later announced that a terrorist (wearing khakis, around 20 years of age) had been killed during this incident. This attack coincided with an armed raid on a British Army camp in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
References
Bell, J. B. (1977). Terror out of Zion: The fight for Israeli Independence. St. Martin’s Press.
Pictorial and Evidence
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