Fajja Coffeehouse Bombing – May 1947
Date: 20/05/1947
Location: Petah Tikva
Perpetrators: Palmach
Victims: 2+ killed, 6+ injured
What Happened?
20 May 1947: A coffeehouse in the Palestinian village of Fajja in the subdistrict of Jaffa was bombed by Palmach, a strike force of the Israeli Haganah.
The Haganah alleged that the coffeehouse was hiding bandits. The bombing of the building led to the deaths of at least 2 villagers.
References
Khalidi, Walid (1992) “All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948”
Pictorial and Evidence
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