Word: irgun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coastal farms and factories going. For the moment the accent had to be on the military phase. In their blitz of the past two weeks the Jews had tried to consolidate their coastal base of operations from Haifa to below Tel Aviv. To get rid of one Arab enclave, Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists tried to capture Jaffa, which the U.N. partition plan gave to the Arabs. British troops checked the Irgun attack...
Exploits in Savagery. Elsewhere, savage raids turned into brutal massacres. Four miles from Kastel, about 100 Jews (two-thirds Irgun, one-third Stern Gang) swept into the village of Deir Yesin at dawn, blew up its huts with demolition charges. More than 200 Arabs, half of them women & children, died in the slaughter. The rest of the village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer...
...drove off British police who tried to help rescue the wounded. Then, in a series of reprisal attacks, they killed nine British soldiers, wounded at least as many. Jerusalem was all but paralyzed as armed bands of Britons, Arabs and Jews prepared for more fighting. Said the terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi: "As from today all British personnel, military and police, entering Jewish sections, will be subject to execution...
...Irgun terrorists had chosen a forest preserve south of the seaside, town of Natanya for their revenge. There, a voice informed Tel Aviv newspapers by telephone, Sergeants Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin could be found. And there, in a clearing heavy with the stench of death, the searchers found them. Their bloodied, blackened bodies swung to & fro from eucalyptus trees. Their shirts were wrapped around their heads. Through their clothes and flesh were pinned Irgun "communiqués" accusing the sergeants of "anti-Jewish crimes." They had died slowly, by clumsy strangulation...
...terrorists had added a distinctive touch; they had booby-trapped one of their victims. When searchers cut down Martin's body, it touched off a contact mine set by the Irgun. His body was blasted to nothingness, Paice's was mutilated, a British officer was wounded...