List of Irgun attacks

During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the Mandatory Palestine, the militant Zionist group Irgun carried out 60 attacks against Palestinian people and the British Army.Arie Perliger and Leonard Weinberg, Jewish Self Defense and Terrorist Groups Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel: Roots and Traditions. "Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions", Vol. 4, No. 3, 100, (2003); [https://web.archive.org/web/20080202073904/http://terrorismexperts.org/terrorism_research_roots1.htm Online version]. Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by The New York Times,Pope Brewer, Sam. [https://www.nytimes.com/1947/12/30/archives/irgun-bomb-kills-11-arabs-2-britons-missile-thrown-from-a-taxi-in.html?sq=terrorist+Irgun&scp=2&st=p IRGUN BOMB KILLS 11 ARABS, 2 BRITONS]. The New York Times. December 30, 1947.[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0E16F93D55147B93C4A81783D85F438485F9&scp=3&sq=terrorist+Irgun&st=p IRGUN'S HAND SEEN IN ALPS RAIL BLAST]. The New York Times. August 16, 1947. the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry,Walid Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest, p. 598; updated 1987 to From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948, Institute for Palestine Studies, {{ISBN|978-0-88728-155-6}}. prominent world figures such as Winston Churchill{{cite book |title=Churchill and the Jews |author=Martin Gilbert |page=270}} and Jewish figures such as Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, and many others.{{cite book |title=Prophets Outcast |author=Adam Shatz |pages=65–67}} The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes it as "an underground organization."{{Cite web |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/history/modern%20history/centenary%20of%20zionism/lexicon%20of%20zionism#I |title=Lexicon of Zionism |access-date=2009-06-27 |archive-date=2009-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528084743/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Modern%20History/Centenary%20of%20Zionism/Lexicon%20of%20Zionism#I |url-status=dead }} The New York Times at the time cited sources in an investigative piece which linked the Haganah paramilitary group to Irgun attacks such as the King David Hotel bombing.Irgun implicates Haganah in blast By Gene Currivans, The New York Times. July 27, 1947, Sunday Page 11, 628 words, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00715F7355A147B93C5AB178CD85F438485F9&scp=4&sq=irgun+terrorist&st=p

Irgun launched a series of attacks which lasted until the founding of Israel. All told, Irgun attacks against Arab targets resulted in at least 250 Arab deaths during this period. The following is a list of attacks resulting in death attributed to Irgun that took place during the 1930s and 1940s. Irgun conducted at least 60 operations altogether during this period.Perliger and Weinberg, 101.Prof. Yehuda Lapidot, [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html The Irgun website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html |date=2023-05-02 }}, links to sections on history of Irgun.J. Bowyer Bell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mCfwnAn9uBYC Terror out of Zion: the fight for Israeli independence] (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977). pp. 181

During British Mandated Palestine (1937–1939)

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style="width:150px;"\|Date ! Casualties ! References
1937, March \| 2 Arabs killed on Bat Yam beach. \| Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur, Religious fundamentalism and political extremism, Routledge, p. 101, 2004.
1937, November 14 \| 10 Arabs killed by Irgun units launching attacks around Jerusalem, ("Black Sunday") \| J. Bowyer Bell, Moshe Arens, Terror out of Zion,[https://books.google.com/books?id=Df_2trrOLPAC&dq=November+14,+1937+killed+Irgun&pg=PA39 p. 39], 1996 edition{{in lang\|he}}Y. 'Amrami, A. Melitz, דברי הימים למלחמת השחרור ("History of the War of Independence", Shelach Press, 1951. (a sympathetic account of events, mostly related to Irgun and Lehi).
1938, April 12 \| 2 Arabs and 2 British policemen were killed by a bomb in a train in Haifa. \|
1938, April 17 \| 1 Arab was killed by a bomb detonated in a cafe in Haifa \|
1938, May 17 \| 1 Arab policeman was killed in an attack on a bus in the Jerusalem-Hebron road. \|
1938, May 24 \| 3 Arabs were shot and killed in Haifa. \|
1938, June 19 \| 18 Arabs killed (9 men, 6 women and 3 children), 24 injured by a bomb that was thrown into a crowded Arab market place in Haifa. \| {{cite book \|title=The Seventh Million \|author=Tom Segev, Haim Watzman \|page=39}} Citing Arnold Zweig's letters to Sigmund Freud{{cite news \|author= \|date=1939-06-19 \|title=Haifa Bombs Fell Scores \|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/06/19/88165658.html?pageNumber=4 \|newspaper=New York Times \|location=New York \|access-date=2015-09-09 }}{{cite news \|author= \|date=1939-06-20 \|title=Bomb Blast Kills 18 Arabs at Haifa \|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/06/20/93931349.html?pageNumber=9 \|newspaper=New York Times \|location=New York \|access-date=2015-09-09 }}{{cite news\|title=18 Arabs Die In Bomb Blast\|date=June 19, 1939\|work=The Vancouver Sun\|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zzFlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MIkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5544,2680322\|access-date=15 October 2011}}
1938, June 23 \| 2 Arabs were killed near Tel Aviv. \|
1938, June 26 \| 7 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jaffa. \|
1938, June 27 \| 1 Arab was killed in the yard of a hospital in Haifa. \|
1938, July 5 \| 7 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks in Tel Aviv. \|
1938, July 5 \| 3 Arabs were killed by a bomb detonated in a bus in Jerusalem. \|
1938, July 5 \| 1 Arab was killed in another attack in Jerusalem. \|
1938, July 6 \| 18 Arabs and 5 Jews were killed by two simultaneous bombs in the Arab melon market in Haifa. More than 60 people were wounded. The toll over two days of riots and reprisals was 33 dead, 111 wounded. \| [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html Irgun site] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html \|date=2023-05-02 }} Restraint and Retaliation section.{{cite news \|author= \|title=23 Die as Violence Grips Palestine \|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/07/07/98160960.html?pageNumber=1 \|newspaper=New York Times \|location=New York \|date=1938-07-07 \|access-date=2015-09-09 }}{{cite news \|author= \|title=Arabs Clash with British on Trans-Jordan Border: Palestine Violence Grows \|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/07/08/98161510.html?pageNumber=1 \|newspaper=New York Times \|location=New York \|date=1938-07-08 \|access-date=2015-09-09 }}
1938, July 8 \| 4 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem. \|
1938, July 16 \| 10 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jerusalem. \|
1938, July 25 \| 43 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa. \| Palestine Post, July 26–27, 1938
1938, August 26 \| 24 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jaffa. \|
1939, February 27 \| 33 Arabs were killed in multiple attacks, incl. 24 by bomb in Arab market in Suk Quarter of Haifa and 4 by bomb in Arab vegetable market in Jerusalem. \| Y. Ben-Ami, Years of Wrath, Days of Glory; Memoirs of the Irgun, Speller and Sons, New York 1982; p. 229. Casualty figures from Palestine Post Feb 28, 1939.
1939, May 29 \| 18 people were injured, including 13 Arabs and three British police, by mines detonated at the Rex cinema in Jerusalem. \| Palestine Post, May 30, 1939
1939, May 29 \| 5 Arabs were shot and killed during a raid on the village of Biyar 'Adas. \|
1939, June 2 \| 5 Arabs were killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. \| [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html The Irgun web site] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html \|date=2023-05-02 }}, "The Split within the Irgun" section
1939, June 12 \| 1 British bomb expert was killed while trying to defuse a bomb in a post office in Jerusalem \|
1939, June 16 \| 6 Arabs were killed in several attacks in Jerusalem. \|
1939, June 19 \| 20 Arabs were killed by explosives mounted on a donkey at a marketplace in Haifa. \| Palestine Post, June 20–22, 1939
1939, June 29 \| 13 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks around Jaffa during a one-hour period. \| Palestine Post, June 30, 1939
1939, June 30 \| 1 Arab was killed at a marketplace in Jerusalem. \|
1939, June 30 \| 2 Arabs were shot and killed in Lifta. \|
1939, July 3 \| 1 Arab was killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa. \| Palestine Post, July 5, 1939
1939, July 4 \| 2 Arabs were killed in two attacks in Jerusalem. \|
1939, July 20 \| 1 Arab was killed at a train station in Jaffa. \|
1939, July 20 \| 6 Arabs were killed in several attacks in Tel Aviv. \|
1939, July 20 \| 3 Arabs were killed in Rehovot. \|
1939, August 26 \| 2 British police officers including Ralph Cairns were killed by a roadside bomb in Jerusalem. \|

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style="width:150px;"|Date

! Casualties

! References

1937, March

| 2 Arabs killed on Bat Yam beach.

| Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur, Religious fundamentalism and political extremism, Routledge, p. 101, 2004.

1937, November 14

| 10 Arabs killed by Irgun units launching attacks around Jerusalem, ("Black Sunday")

| J. Bowyer Bell, Moshe Arens, Terror out of Zion,[https://books.google.com/books?id=Df_2trrOLPAC&dq=November+14,+1937+killed+Irgun&pg=PA39 p. 39], 1996 edition{{in lang|he}}Y. 'Amrami, A. Melitz, דברי הימים למלחמת השחרור ("History of the War of Independence", Shelach Press, 1951. (a sympathetic account of events, mostly related to Irgun and Lehi).

1938, April 12

| 2 Arabs and 2 British policemen were killed by a bomb in a train in Haifa.

1938, April 17

| 1 Arab was killed by a bomb detonated in a cafe in Haifa

1938, May 17

| 1 Arab policeman was killed in an attack on a bus in the Jerusalem-Hebron road.

1938, May 24

| 3 Arabs were shot and killed in Haifa.

1938, June 19

| 18 Arabs killed (9 men, 6 women and 3 children), 24 injured by a bomb that was thrown into a crowded Arab market place in Haifa.

| {{cite book |title=The Seventh Million |author=Tom Segev, Haim Watzman |page=39}} Citing Arnold Zweig's letters to Sigmund Freud{{cite news |author= |date=1939-06-19 |title=Haifa Bombs Fell Scores |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/06/19/88165658.html?pageNumber=4 |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York |access-date=2015-09-09 }}{{cite news |author= |date=1939-06-20 |title=Bomb Blast Kills 18 Arabs at Haifa |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/06/20/93931349.html?pageNumber=9 |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York |access-date=2015-09-09 }}{{cite news|title=18 Arabs Die In Bomb Blast|date=June 19, 1939|work=The Vancouver Sun|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zzFlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MIkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5544,2680322|access-date=15 October 2011}}

1938, June 23

| 2 Arabs were killed near Tel Aviv.

1938, June 26

| 7 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jaffa.

1938, June 27

| 1 Arab was killed in the yard of a hospital in Haifa.

1938, July 5

| 7 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks in Tel Aviv.

1938, July 5

| 3 Arabs were killed by a bomb detonated in a bus in Jerusalem.

1938, July 5

| 1 Arab was killed in another attack in Jerusalem.

1938, July 6

| 18 Arabs and 5 Jews were killed by two simultaneous bombs in the Arab melon market in Haifa. More than 60 people were wounded. The toll over two days of riots and reprisals was 33 dead, 111 wounded.

| [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html Irgun site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html |date=2023-05-02 }} Restraint and Retaliation section.{{cite news |author= |title=23 Die as Violence Grips Palestine |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/07/07/98160960.html?pageNumber=1 |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York |date=1938-07-07 |access-date=2015-09-09 }}{{cite news |author= |title=Arabs Clash with British on Trans-Jordan Border: Palestine Violence Grows |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/07/08/98161510.html?pageNumber=1 |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York |date=1938-07-08 |access-date=2015-09-09 }}

1938, July 8

| 4 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem.

1938, July 16

| 10 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jerusalem.

1938, July 25

| 43 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa.

| Palestine Post, July 26–27, 1938

1938, August 26

| 24 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jaffa.

1939, February 27

| 33 Arabs were killed in multiple attacks, incl. 24 by bomb in Arab market in Suk Quarter of Haifa and 4 by bomb in Arab vegetable market in Jerusalem.

| Y. Ben-Ami, Years of Wrath, Days of Glory; Memoirs of the Irgun, Speller and Sons, New York 1982; p. 229. Casualty figures from Palestine Post Feb 28, 1939.

1939, May 29

| 18 people were injured, including 13 Arabs and three British police, by mines detonated at the Rex cinema in Jerusalem.

| Palestine Post, May 30, 1939

1939, May 29

| 5 Arabs were shot and killed during a raid on the village of Biyar 'Adas.

1939, June 2

| 5 Arabs were killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.

| [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html The Irgun web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html |date=2023-05-02 }}, "The Split within the Irgun" section

1939, June 12

| 1 British bomb expert was killed while trying to defuse a bomb in a post office in Jerusalem

1939, June 16

| 6 Arabs were killed in several attacks in Jerusalem.

1939, June 19

| 20 Arabs were killed by explosives mounted on a donkey at a marketplace in Haifa.

| Palestine Post, June 20–22, 1939

1939, June 29

| 13 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks around Jaffa during a one-hour period.

| Palestine Post, June 30, 1939

1939, June 30

| 1 Arab was killed at a marketplace in Jerusalem.

1939, June 30

| 2 Arabs were shot and killed in Lifta.

1939, July 3

| 1 Arab was killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa.

| Palestine Post, July 5, 1939

1939, July 4

| 2 Arabs were killed in two attacks in Jerusalem.

1939, July 20

| 1 Arab was killed at a train station in Jaffa.

1939, July 20

| 6 Arabs were killed in several attacks in Tel Aviv.

1939, July 20

| 3 Arabs were killed in Rehovot.

1939, August 26

| 2 British police officers including Ralph Cairns were killed by a roadside bomb in Jerusalem.

During the Jewish insurgency (1944–1947)

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style="width:150px;"\|Date ! Casualties ! References
1944, September 27 \| Unknown number of casualties, around 150 Irgun members attacked four British police stations \| {{cite book \|title=Churchill and the Jews \|author=Martin Gilbert \|page=221}}
1944, September 29 \| 1 Senior British police officer of the Criminal Intelligence Department assassinated in Jerusalem. \|
1945, November 1 \| 5 locomotives destroyed in Lydda station. Two staff, one soldier and one policeman were killed. One of the bombers, Yehiel Dresner, was later executed for other crimes. \| Horne, Edward (1982). A Job Well Done (Being a History of The Palestine Police Force 1920 - 1948). The Anchor Press. {{ISBN\|978-0-9508367-0-6}}. Page 289.
1945, December 27 \| 3 British policemen and 4 Sotho soldiers killed during the bombing of British CID headquarters in Jerusalem; 1 British soldier killed during attack of British army camp in north Tel Aviv \| [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html The Irgun web site] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html \|date=2023-05-02 }}, "The United Resistance" section.Horne. Page 294
1946, February 22 \| Destroyed 14 aeroplanes at 5 RAF stations. \| Horne. Page 296
1946, July 22 \| 91 people were killed at the bombing of the King David Hotel (which was the British headquarters), mostly civilians, staff of the hotel or Secretariat, 41 Arabs, 15-28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian. \| Thurston Clarke, By Blood and Fire, G. P. Puttnam's Sons, New York, 1981{{cite book \|title=Churchill and the Jews \|author=Martin Gilbert \|page=253}}Horne, page 300: Counts 16 British subjects, 3 policemen (2 Britons and one Arab), one Arab soldier, no British soldiers, and a third of those killed were Jews.
1946, October 30 \| 2 British guards killed during Gunfire and explosion at Jerusalem Railway Station. \| [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html The Irgun web site] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html \|date=2023-05-02 }}, "The Raid on the Jerusalem Railway Station" section.
1946, October 31 \| Bombing of the British Embassy in Rome. Nearly half the building was destroyed and 3 people were injured. \| {{cite news \|publisher=St Petersburg Times \|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19461105&id=vL8wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1E4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7048,7096754 \|date=1946-11-05 \|access-date=2010-05-22 \|title=Jewish Terrorists Admit Bombing Embassy in Rome}}
1946, November 13 \| 6 Palestine police (2 British, 4 Arabs) killed in bombing of railway line. \| {{cite news\|publisher=Virginia Chronicle\|url=https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RNJ19461113.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------\|date=1946-11-13\|access-date=2022-11-14\|title=Six Killed In New Trouble In Palestine\|quote= Attackers described by police as Jewish extremists today ambushed a police dawn patrol, which daily combs railway lines for bombs, blasting its ramshackled hand-propelled trolly and killing all six officers aboard. The “suicide patrol,” which was instituted two weeks ago when Irgun Zvai Leumi said it was launching an anti-railway drive was ambushed at Beit Safafa on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The patrol had been appearing daily at the same spot, a few minutes after starting its track inspection tour of the Jerusalem yards. Killed were two British constables, one arab sergeant and three arab police officers. Another train attack near Jaffa left a fireman and an Arab police guard wounded and stranded the day’s first passenger train. In both attacks police said explosives buried between crossties were electrically detonated. The Palestine Railway Administration announced suspension of all passenger train service on the Jerusalem-Lydda and the Lydda-Jaffa line until further notice. A statement signed “Irgun Zvai Leumi,” which said that Jewish underground organization took full responsibility for recent attacks on railways, were pasted on numerous walls in Jerusalem last night. Railway schedules have been restricted to daytime runs only since attackers against trains reached their height. Today’s attackers raised to 14 the number of blasts at railways in the past month. Damage to tracks today at both places was negligible and traffic was scheduled to be resumed during the day. Police sources expressed apprehension about reaction to today's attacks, commenting that it was "Jewish terrorism but it left four Arabs dead and one wounded and both attacks occurred in Arab territory."}}
1947, March 1 \| 17 British officers killed, during bombing of the Goldschmidt Officer's Club. \| [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html The Irgun web site] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html \|date=2023-05-02 }}, "Raid on the Jerusalem Officers Club" section.
1947, March 12 \| 1 British soldier killed during the attack on Schneller Camp. \|
1947, June 18 \| One Haganah member killed by a booby trap while sealing a tunnel dug by Irgun to blow up the British Headquarter in [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Citrus_House Citrus House], Tel Aviv. \| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/06/19/87541390.html?pageNumber=1 Haganah Foils Irgun Plot to Bomb British Army Center in Tel Aviv]. NY Times. June 19, 1947. Retrieved September 9, 2015[https://www.jta.org/1947/06/19/archive/haganah-foils-irgun-attempt-to-blow-up-british-headquarters-in-tel-aviv-one-killed Haganah Foils Irgun Attempt to Blow Up British Headquarters in Tel Aviv; One Killed], June 19, 1947, JTA
1947, July 19 \| 4 locations within Haifa are attacked, killing a British constable and injuring 12. \| {{cite news\|title=BRITISH CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD IN HAIFA; 5 Soldiers, 7 Jews Are Hit in Wide Terrorist Blows Protesting Ship Seizure\|date=20 July 1947\|first=Gene\|last=Currivan\|work=New York Times\|location=Jerusalem\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/07/20/archives/british-constable-shot-dead-in-haifa-5-soldiers-7-jews-are-hit-in.html?sq=terrorist+1947+july&scp=5&st=p\|access-date=17 August 2011}}
1947, July 29 \| 2 kidnapped British sergeants hanged. \| [http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html The Irgun web site] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502201816/http://www.etzel.org.il/english/index.html \|date=2023-05-02 }}, "The Gallows" section.
1947, August 4 \| Two Suitcase time-bombs explode in the basement of the Hotel Sacher, Vienna (British Army Headquarters) \| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/20/104330429.html?pageNumber=11 Irgun Boasts of Alps Blast] NY Times, August 19, 1947[http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/05/87798799.html?pageNumber=18 Two Bombs Explode in a Vienna Hotel] NY Times, August 5, 1947
1947, August 5 \| 3 British policemen killed in bombing of British Labour Department office in Jerusalem \| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/06/104326626.html?pageNumber=1 35 Zionist Leaders Detained as Bomb Kills 3 Constables] NY Times, August 6, 1947
1947, August 9 \| Jewish train engineer killed in Cairo-Haifa train bombing \| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/10/87799583.html?pageNumber=1 Terrorists Wreck Haifa Troop Train] NY Times, August 10, 1947
1947, August 12 \| 1 British soldier injured in bombing of London-Villach military train outside Tauern tunnel near Mallintz, Austria. A second bomb failed to explode, the two were intended to derail the train over a steep cliff. No injuries from a second explosion outside British camp commandant's office in Velden. \| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/14/87805793.html?pageNumber=3 175 Britons Escape in Rail Blast Near Tunnel in the Austrian Alps] NY Times, August 14, 1947[https://www.nytimes.com/1947/08/16/archives/irguns-hand-seen-in-alps-rail-blast-polish-jew-confesses-he-was.html Irgun's Hand Seen in Alps Rail Blast] NY Times, August 16, 1947
1947, September 26 \| 4 British policemen killed in Irgun bank robbery. \| Donald Neff, [https://www.wrmea.org/2006-may-june/hamas-a-pale-image-of-the-jewish-irgun-and-lehi-gangs.html Hamas: A Pale Image of the Jewish Irgun And Lehi Gangs], Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 2006, p. 14-15.
1947, September 29 \| 10 killed (4 British policemen, 4 Arab policemen and an Arab couple) and 53 injured in Haifa police headquarters bombing by Irgun. One ton of explosives in a barrel was used for the bombing and Irgun said it was done on the first day of Sukkot to avoid Jewish casualties. \| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/10/01/104341366.html?pageNumber=14 Terrorists Strike in Palestine Again] NY Times, September 30, 1947[http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/09/30/282546022.html?pageNumber=15 Blast Set by Irgun to Speed Army Exit] NY Times, September 30, 1947

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style="width:150px;"|Date

! Casualties

! References

1944, September 27

| Unknown number of casualties, around 150 Irgun members attacked four British police stations

| {{cite book |title=Churchill and the Jews |author=Martin Gilbert |page=221}}

1944, September 29

| 1 Senior British police officer of the Criminal Intelligence Department assassinated in Jerusalem.

1945, November 1

| 5 locomotives destroyed in Lydda station. Two staff, one soldier and one policeman were killed. One of the bombers, Yehiel Dresner, was later executed for other crimes.

| Horne, Edward (1982). A Job Well Done (Being a History of The Palestine Police Force 1920 - 1948). The Anchor Press. {{ISBN|978-0-9508367-0-6}}. Page 289.

1945, December 27

| 3 British policemen and 4 Sotho soldiers killed during the bombing of British CID headquarters in Jerusalem; 1 British soldier killed during attack of British army camp in north Tel Aviv

1946, February 22

| Destroyed 14 aeroplanes at 5 RAF stations.

| Horne. Page 296

1946, July 22

| 91 people were killed at the bombing of the King David Hotel (which was the British headquarters), mostly civilians, staff of the hotel or Secretariat,
41 Arabs, 15-28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian.

| Thurston Clarke, By Blood and Fire, G. P. Puttnam's Sons, New York, 1981{{cite book |title=Churchill and the Jews |author=Martin Gilbert |page=253}}Horne, page 300: Counts 16 British subjects, 3 policemen (2 Britons and one Arab), one Arab soldier, no British soldiers, and a third of those killed were Jews.

1946, October 30

| 2 British guards killed during Gunfire and explosion at Jerusalem Railway Station.

1946, October 31

| Bombing of the British Embassy in Rome. Nearly half the building was destroyed and 3 people were injured.

| {{cite news |publisher=St Petersburg Times |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19461105&id=vL8wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1E4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7048,7096754 |date=1946-11-05 |access-date=2010-05-22 |title=Jewish Terrorists Admit Bombing Embassy in Rome}}

1946, November 13

| 6 Palestine police (2 British, 4 Arabs) killed in bombing of railway line.

| {{cite news|publisher=Virginia Chronicle|url=https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RNJ19461113.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------|date=1946-11-13|access-date=2022-11-14|title=Six Killed In New Trouble In Palestine|quote= Attackers described by police as Jewish extremists today ambushed a police dawn patrol, which daily combs railway lines for bombs, blasting its ramshackled hand-propelled trolly and killing all six officers aboard. The “suicide patrol,” which was instituted two weeks ago when Irgun Zvai Leumi said it was launching an anti-railway drive was ambushed at Beit Safafa on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The patrol had been appearing daily at the same spot, a few minutes after starting its track inspection tour of the Jerusalem yards. Killed were two British constables, one arab sergeant and three arab police officers. Another train attack near Jaffa left a fireman and an Arab police guard wounded and stranded the day’s first passenger train. In both attacks police said explosives buried between crossties were electrically detonated. The Palestine Railway Administration announced suspension of all passenger train service on the Jerusalem-Lydda and the Lydda-Jaffa line until further notice. A statement signed “Irgun Zvai Leumi,” which said that Jewish underground organization took full responsibility for recent attacks on railways, were pasted on numerous walls in Jerusalem last night. Railway schedules have been restricted to daytime runs only since attackers against trains reached their height. Today’s attackers raised to 14 the number of blasts at railways in the past month. Damage to tracks today at both places was negligible and traffic was scheduled to be resumed during the day. Police sources expressed apprehension about reaction to today's attacks, commenting that it was "Jewish terrorism but it left four Arabs dead and one wounded and both attacks occurred in Arab territory."}}

1947, March 1

| 17 British officers killed, during bombing of the Goldschmidt Officer's Club.

1947, March 12

| 1 British soldier killed during the attack on Schneller Camp.

1947, June 18

| One Haganah member killed by a booby trap while sealing a tunnel dug by Irgun to blow up the British Headquarter in [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Citrus_House Citrus House], Tel Aviv.

| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/06/19/87541390.html?pageNumber=1 Haganah Foils Irgun Plot to Bomb British Army Center in Tel Aviv]. NY Times. June 19, 1947. Retrieved September 9, 2015[https://www.jta.org/1947/06/19/archive/haganah-foils-irgun-attempt-to-blow-up-british-headquarters-in-tel-aviv-one-killed Haganah Foils Irgun Attempt to Blow Up British Headquarters in Tel Aviv; One Killed], June 19, 1947, JTA

1947, July 19

| 4 locations within Haifa are attacked, killing a British constable and injuring 12.

| {{cite news|title=BRITISH CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD IN HAIFA; 5 Soldiers, 7 Jews Are Hit in Wide Terrorist Blows Protesting Ship Seizure|date=20 July 1947|first=Gene|last=Currivan|work=New York Times|location=Jerusalem|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/07/20/archives/british-constable-shot-dead-in-haifa-5-soldiers-7-jews-are-hit-in.html?sq=terrorist+1947+july&scp=5&st=p|access-date=17 August 2011}}

1947, July 29

| 2 kidnapped British sergeants hanged.

1947, August 4

| Two Suitcase time-bombs explode in the basement of the Hotel Sacher, Vienna (British Army Headquarters)

| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/20/104330429.html?pageNumber=11 Irgun Boasts of Alps Blast] NY Times, August 19, 1947[http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/05/87798799.html?pageNumber=18 Two Bombs Explode in a Vienna Hotel] NY Times, August 5, 1947

1947, August 5

| 3 British policemen killed in bombing of British Labour Department office in Jerusalem

| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/06/104326626.html?pageNumber=1 35 Zionist Leaders Detained as Bomb Kills 3 Constables] NY Times, August 6, 1947

1947, August 9

| Jewish train engineer killed in Cairo-Haifa train bombing

| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/10/87799583.html?pageNumber=1 Terrorists Wreck Haifa Troop Train] NY Times, August 10, 1947

1947, August 12

| 1 British soldier injured in bombing of London-Villach military train outside Tauern tunnel near Mallintz, Austria. A second bomb failed to explode, the two were intended to derail the train over a steep cliff. No injuries from a second explosion outside British camp commandant's office in Velden.

| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/08/14/87805793.html?pageNumber=3 175 Britons Escape in Rail Blast Near Tunnel in the Austrian Alps] NY Times, August 14, 1947[https://www.nytimes.com/1947/08/16/archives/irguns-hand-seen-in-alps-rail-blast-polish-jew-confesses-he-was.html Irgun's Hand Seen in Alps Rail Blast] NY Times, August 16, 1947

1947, September 26

| 4 British policemen killed in Irgun bank robbery.

| Donald Neff, [https://www.wrmea.org/2006-may-june/hamas-a-pale-image-of-the-jewish-irgun-and-lehi-gangs.html Hamas: A Pale Image of the Jewish Irgun And Lehi Gangs], Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 2006, p. 14-15.

1947, September 29

| 10 killed (4 British policemen, 4 Arab policemen and an Arab couple) and 53 injured in Haifa police headquarters bombing by Irgun. One ton of explosives in a barrel was used for the bombing and Irgun said it was done on the first day of Sukkot to avoid Jewish casualties.

| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/10/01/104341366.html?pageNumber=14 Terrorists Strike in Palestine Again] NY Times, September 30, 1947[http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/09/30/282546022.html?pageNumber=15 Blast Set by Irgun to Speed Army Exit] NY Times, September 30, 1947

During the Civil War (1947–48)

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style="width:150px;"\|Date ! Casualties ! References
1947, December 11 \| 13 killed in attack on Tireh, near Haifa \| Palestine Post, Dec 14; Milstein, Vol 11, p91
1947, December 12 \| 20 killed, 5 wounded by barrel bomb at Damascus Gate. \| Uri Milstein, History of Israel's War of Independence, Vol II. p51
1947, December 13 \| 6 killed, 25 wounded by bombs outside Alhambra Cinema. \| Palestine Post, Dec 14
1947, December 13 \| 5 killed, 47 wounded by two bombs at Damascus Gate. \| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/14/87565211.html?pageNumber=1 Irgun Attacks in Palestine; 21 Arabs, 3 Jews Are Slain] NY Times, December 14, 1947
1947, December 13 \| 7 Arabs killed (including two women and two children, 3 and 4 years old) and 7 others seriously wounded (two women and girl of 4 among them) in attack on Yehudiya. 24 Irgun men attacked the village, approaching from Petah Tikva shooting guns, dynamiting houses and throwing grenades. An armored British police car was also fired on. \| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/20/104394284.html?pageNumber=8 Haganah kills 10 in raid on Arabs] NY Times, December 20, 1947
1947, December 16(ca) \| 10 killed by bomb at Noga Cinema in Jaffa. \| Milstein, Vol II, p81.
1947, December 29 \| Two British constables and 11 Arabs were killed and 32 Arabs wounded when Irgun members threw a bomb from a taxi at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate. \| Milstein, Vol II, p214.Pope Brewer, Sam. [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/30/104398952.html?pageNumber=1 IRGUN BOMB KILLS 11 ARABS, 2 BRITONS]. The New York Times. December 30, 1947.
1947, December 30 \| 6 Arabs killed and, 42 injured by grenades at Haifa refinery, precipitating the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre, which led to the Balad al-Shaykh massacre. \| Milstein, Vol II, p91.
1948, January 1 \| 2 Arabs killed and 9 injured by shooting attack on cafe in Jaffa. \| Palestine Post, Jan 2, 1948
1948, January 5 \| 14 Arabs killed and 19 injured by truck bomb outside the 3-storey 'Serrani', Jaffa's built Ottoman Town Hall \| The Scotsman newspaper, Jan 6, 1948
1948, January 7 \| 20 Arabs killed by bomb at Jaffa Gate. \| Palestine Post, Jan 9-10, 1948Milstein, Vol II, p53
1948, February 10 \| 7 Arabs killed near Ras el Ain after selling cows in Tel Aviv \| Palestine Post, Feb 13, 1948
1948, February 18 \| 12 Arabs killed and 43 wounded at a marketplace in Ramla \| [http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/EPP/Chapter07_3of7.htm Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620145357/http://palestine-encyclopedia.com/EPP/Chapter07_3of7.htm \|date=2010-06-20 }}
1948, March 1 \| 20 Britons killed and 30 wounded in the Bevingrad Officers Club bombing \|{{cite book \| last = Bard\| first = Mitchell G. \| title = The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict \| year = 2005 \| publisher = Alpha \| isbn = 1-59257-410-6}}
1948, April 9-April 11 \| 107-120 Arabs killed and massacred (the estimate generally accepted by scholars, instead the first announced number of 254) during and after the battle at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, by 132 Irgun and 60 Lehi fighters. \| Kana'ana, Sharif and Zeitawi, Nihad (1987), "The Village of Deir Yassin", Bir Zeit, Bir Zeit University Press{{cite book \| last = Morris \| first = Benny \| author-link = Benny Morris \| title = The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited \| year = 2003 \| publisher = Cambridge University Press \| location = Cambridge, UK; New York \|isbn = 0-521-81120-1 \|id = (pbk.)}}: Chapter 4: The second wave: the mass exodus, April—June 1948, Section: Operation Nahshon, page 238{{cite book \| last = Milstein \| first = Uri \| author-link = Uri Milstein \| title = History of the War of Independence IV: Out of Crisis Came Decision \| publisher = University Press of America, Inc. \| orig-year = 1987 \| year = 1998 \|location = Lanhan, Maryland \|language=he, en \|translator=Alan Sacks \|editor=Alan Sacks \| isbn = 0-7618-1489-2}}: Chapter 16: Deir Yassin, Section 12: The Massacre, page 376-381{{cite journal\| last = Morris \| first = Benny \| author-link = Benny Morris \| year = 2005 \| title = The Historiography of Deir Yassin \| journal = Journal of Israeli History \| volume = 24 \| issue = 1 \| pages = 79–107 \| doi = 10.1080/13531040500040305 \| s2cid = 159894369 }}: page 100-101[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/293947/Irgun-Zvai-Leumi britannica.com]
1948, April 6 \| 7 British soldiers, including Commanding Officer, killed during an arms raid on Pardes Hanna Army camp. \| The Scotsman: 17th, 18th April. Yaakov Meridor was reported to have been in command of the Irgun attackers. Those dead included Lieut-Colonel G.L. Hildebrand, Royal Artillery
1948, April 25–30 \| Operation Hametz; Irgun captured several Arab towns around Jaffa, and later repulsed a British attempt to dislodge them from the town of Menashiya. \| Bell, Bowyer J.: Terror out of Zion (1976)

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style="width:150px;"|Date

! Casualties

! References

1947, December 11

| 13 killed in attack on Tireh, near Haifa

| Palestine Post, Dec 14; Milstein, Vol 11, p91

1947, December 12

| 20 killed, 5 wounded by barrel bomb at Damascus Gate.

| Uri Milstein, History of Israel's War of Independence, Vol II. p51

1947, December 13

| 6 killed, 25 wounded by bombs outside Alhambra Cinema.

| Palestine Post, Dec 14

1947, December 13

| 5 killed, 47 wounded by two bombs at Damascus Gate.

| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/14/87565211.html?pageNumber=1 Irgun Attacks in Palestine; 21 Arabs, 3 Jews Are Slain] NY Times, December 14, 1947

1947, December 13

| 7 Arabs killed (including two women and two children, 3 and 4 years old) and 7 others seriously wounded (two women and girl of 4 among them) in attack on Yehudiya. 24 Irgun men attacked the village, approaching from Petah Tikva shooting guns, dynamiting houses and throwing grenades. An armored British police car was also fired on.

| [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/20/104394284.html?pageNumber=8 Haganah kills 10 in raid on Arabs] NY Times, December 20, 1947

1947, December 16(ca)

| 10 killed by bomb at Noga Cinema in Jaffa.

| Milstein, Vol II, p81.

1947, December 29

| Two British constables and 11 Arabs were killed and 32 Arabs wounded when Irgun members threw a bomb from a taxi at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate.

| Milstein, Vol II, p214.Pope Brewer, Sam. [http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/30/104398952.html?pageNumber=1 IRGUN BOMB KILLS 11 ARABS, 2 BRITONS]. The New York Times. December 30, 1947.

1947, December 30

| 6 Arabs killed and, 42 injured by grenades at Haifa refinery, precipitating the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre, which led to the Balad al-Shaykh massacre.

| Milstein, Vol II, p91.

1948, January 1

| 2 Arabs killed and 9 injured by shooting attack on cafe in Jaffa.

| Palestine Post, Jan 2, 1948

1948, January 5

| 14 Arabs killed and 19 injured by truck bomb outside the 3-storey 'Serrani', Jaffa's built Ottoman Town Hall

| The Scotsman newspaper, Jan 6, 1948

1948, January 7

| 20 Arabs killed by bomb at Jaffa Gate.

| Palestine Post, Jan 9-10, 1948Milstein, Vol II, p53

1948, February 10

| 7 Arabs killed near Ras el Ain after selling cows in Tel Aviv

| Palestine Post, Feb 13, 1948

1948, February 18

| 12 Arabs killed and 43 wounded at a marketplace in Ramla

| [http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/EPP/Chapter07_3of7.htm Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620145357/http://palestine-encyclopedia.com/EPP/Chapter07_3of7.htm |date=2010-06-20 }}

1948, March 1

| 20 Britons killed and 30 wounded in the Bevingrad Officers Club bombing

|{{cite book | last = Bard| first = Mitchell G. | title = The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict | year = 2005 | publisher = Alpha | isbn = 1-59257-410-6}}

1948, April 9-April 11

| 107-120 Arabs killed and massacred (the estimate generally accepted by scholars, instead the first announced number of 254) during and after the battle at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, by 132 Irgun and 60 Lehi fighters.

| Kana'ana, Sharif and Zeitawi, Nihad (1987), "The Village of Deir Yassin", Bir Zeit, Bir Zeit University Press{{cite book | last = Morris | first = Benny | author-link = Benny Morris | title = The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited | year = 2003 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, UK; New York |isbn = 0-521-81120-1 |id = (pbk.)}}: Chapter 4: The second wave: the mass exodus, April—June 1948, Section: Operation Nahshon, page 238{{cite book | last = Milstein | first = Uri | author-link = Uri Milstein | title = History of the War of Independence IV: Out of Crisis Came Decision | publisher = University Press of America, Inc. | orig-year = 1987 | year = 1998 |location = Lanhan, Maryland |language=he, en |translator=Alan Sacks |editor=Alan Sacks | isbn = 0-7618-1489-2}}: Chapter 16: Deir Yassin, Section 12: The Massacre, page 376-381{{cite journal| last = Morris | first = Benny | author-link = Benny Morris | year = 2005 | title = The Historiography of Deir Yassin | journal = Journal of Israeli History | volume = 24 | issue = 1 | pages = 79–107 | doi = 10.1080/13531040500040305 | s2cid = 159894369 }}: page 100-101[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/293947/Irgun-Zvai-Leumi britannica.com]

1948, April 6

| 7 British soldiers, including Commanding Officer, killed during an arms raid on Pardes Hanna Army camp.

| The Scotsman: 17th, 18th April. Yaakov Meridor was reported to have been in command of the Irgun attackers. Those dead included Lieut-Colonel G.L. Hildebrand, Royal Artillery

1948, April 25–30

| Operation Hametz; Irgun captured several Arab towns around Jaffa, and later repulsed a British attempt to dislodge them from the town of Menashiya.

| Bell, Bowyer J.: Terror out of Zion (1976)

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20081005195943/http://jpress.tau.ac.il/publications/PPost-en.asp Palestine Post Archive]
Arie Perliger and Leonard Weinberg, Jewish Self Defense and Terrorist Groups Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel: Roots and Traditions. Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2003) 91-118. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080202073904/http://terrorismexperts.org/terrorism_research_roots1.htm Online version]

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Category:Terrorist incidents in Asia in the 1940s

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Category:Mandatory Palestine in World War II

List of Irgun attacks

During British Mandated Palestine (1937–1939)

During the Jewish insurgency (1944–1947)

During the Civil War (1947–48)

See also

References

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