Tag: Failed attack
Failed Truck Hijacking – May 1947
Date: 04/05/1947 Location: Acre Perpetrators: Irgun or Lehi Victims: 1 injured What Happened? 04 May 1947: A Palestinian truck driver (Abdul Hamid Baghdadi) was left severely injured after refusing to hand over his truck to “terrorists.” The truck was presumably to be used as part of the Acre Prison raid jointly organised by the Zionist…
Kiriat Bialik Playground Bombing – May 1947
Date: 04/05/1947 Location: Kiriat Bialik Perpetrators: Irgun or Lehi Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 04 May 1947: An electrician working for the Ahava School in Kiriat Bialik found a large bomb near the Sports Ground, where many schoolchildren were playing. The local police were called to remove the bomb safely. This failed attack was likely…
Jaffa-Jerusalem Road Failed Mine Ambush – Apr 1947
Date: 30/04/1947 Location: Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: Failed Attack 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…
Failed Taxi Hijacking – Apr 1947
Date: 26/04/1947 Location: Tel Aviv-Jaffa Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 26 April 1947: A Jewish taxi driver reported to the police that he had fought off Irgun terrorists who sought to steal his taxi. The terrorists had used a young woman to hire and bring the cab to a secluded part of Rehov Tabor.…
Attempted Hanging of a British Hostage – Apr 1947
Date: 24/04/1947 Location: Tel Aviv-Jaffa Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 24 March 1947: A group of Jewish British Police officers, secretly working with the banned outfit Irgun, roamed the streets of Tel Aviv-Jaffa to find a British hostage to hang and murder. Armed with submachine guns and pistols, they found an Englishman in…
Failed Preparations to Hang British Soldiers – Apr 1947
Date: 21/03/1947 Location: Tel Aviv-Jaffa Perpetrators: Irgun / Lehi Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 21 April 1947: The local police found two ropes tied into nooses, two grenades, a flash bomb, printing dies to forge civilian identities, 30 rounds of ammunition, grenade-training instruction manuals, and two detonators. Three arrests were made in connection with this…
Petah Tikva Failed Cache Transit – Apr 1947
Date: 21/04/1947 Location: Petah Tikva Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 21 April 1947: A police patrol opened fire on a suspicious van that did not stop at a checkpoint in Petah Tikva. The van sped away from the police, who gave chase. It was later found abandoned in a sand track leading from…
Ramle-Aqir Road Failed Mine Attack – Apr 1947
Date: 21/04/1947 Location: Ramle Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 21 April 1947: A land mine exploded under a British military vehicle on the Ramleh-Aqir road in the morning, causing damage to the truck. Another land mine that had been planted on the same highway exploded three hours later, missing any civilian casualties. This…
Kfar Bilu Failed Mine Attack – Apr 1947
Date: 19/04/1947 Location: Kfar Bilu Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 19 April 1947: A British military patrol found a landmine on the highway near Kfar Bilu, likely intended to ambush government targets. An electrically detonated mine had wounded five British soldiers only a few weeks earlier in Haifa. Road mines like this one…
Two Failed Shootings – Apr 1947
Date: 19/04/1947 Location: Haifa Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: Failed attack What Happened? 19 April 1947: The Palestine Post reports two separate attacks on British soldiers in Haifa. No casualties were suffered by the government forces, and a car used by the terrorists was damaged upon returning fire. The attackers likely belonged to the Irgun Zvai Leumi.…