PALESTINE: Jewish terrorist gang, Irgun, attack on Haifa Police HQ (1947)

Adolf Goebbels
Published on Oct 21, 2023
GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

The Irgun Gang, ("The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel"), or Etzel (Hebrew: אצ"ל), was a Jewish Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandate Palestine and then Israel between 1931 and 1948 and formed the foundations for the current ruling party, The Likud.

Ruins of buildings in Haifa, Palestine, after Irgun, a Zionist terror group, detonated a truck full of explosives, killing British and Arab police officers and injuring more than sixty police, soldiers and civilians.

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SLATE INFORMATION: Another outrage by Palestine terror gangs

PALESTINE: Haifa:
Destroyed Police Headquarters building building after bomb explosion, including rubble and wrecked offices nearby. Damaged cars on streets. Man sweeping debris in cleanup operation. British troops along in military car and dragging young male suspect along street. Military police carrying out house to house searches and rounding up suspects. Suspects being questioned. Evacuated British forces marching along to new police stations.
Background: Ruins of buildings in Haifa, Palestine, after Irgun, a Zionist terror group, detonated a truck full of explosives, killing British and Arab police officers and injuring more than sixty police, soldiers and civilians. Also suspects being rounded up and questioned.

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