What Happened?

30 March 1947: A pair of local Palestinian girls found petrol tins filled with explosives and rivets on the Jaffa-Jerusalem road. The local police found 40 lbs of rivets, 20 sticks of gelignite, 250 4oz sticks of Nobel plastic explosives, 9 pounds of guncotton, 68 detonators and four electric detonators.

The explosives were to be controlled, as determined by about 100 metres of wires, from the Givat Shaul settlement. A few days earlier, Irgun had assassinated the CID chief, Mr. A. E. Conquest, in Haifa in a wave of Zionist attacks across Mandatory Palestine.

References

Bell, J. B. (1977). Terror out of Zion: The fight for Israeli Independence. St. Martin’s Press.

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