Haifa Oil Refinery massacre
Haifa Oil Refinery massacre | |
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Location | Haifa |
Date | 30 December 1947 |
Target | Arab and Jewish workers of Haifa Oil Refinery |
Deaths | 45 |
Injured | 91 |
Victim | Arab and Jewish workers of Haifa Oil Refinery |
Perpetrators | Irgun and Arab mob |
The Haifa Oil Refinery massacre took place on 30 December 1947 in Mandatory Palestine. After six Arabs were killed by grenades thrown from a speeding car by members of the Zionist paramilitary organisation Irgun into a crowd of Arabs waiting outside the refinery hoping to find work as day laborers[1], between 39[2] and 41[3][1] Jewish refinery workers were killed by their Arab coworkers in a mass lynching—the casualty counts for the incident are disputed.[1][2][3][4]
Six Arabs were killed and 42 were wounded after Irgun members threw a number of hand grenades at a crowd of about 100 day-labourers waiting at a bus stop outside the main gate of the then British-owned
Background
Relations between Jews and Arabs at the refinery had been known to be good. However, tensions rose in 1947–48 in the wake of the
The Jewish Agency condemned the Irgun for the "act of madness" that preceded the killing of Jewish workers at the Haifa oil refinery, but at the same time authorized retaliation. The
References
- ^ ISBN 9780520204195.
- ^ The Palestine Post. 31 December 1947. p. 1. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ Jewish Telegraph Agency. 31 December 1947.
- ^ Commission of enquiry report [into the Haifa Oil Refinery Massacre], Palestine Post, 20 February 1948.
- ^ a b Pappé 1999, p. 119.
- ^ a b "MidEast Web Historical Documents: Refinery Riots". mideastweb.org.
- ^ Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, p101.
- ^ Zachary Lockman, Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0-415-16947-9
External links
- "39 Jews massacred at oil refinery". The Palestine Post. 31 December 1947. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved 2 August 2020. continuation
- 'The British Withdrawal From Palestine: Possible Advance of Date By Six Weeks, 17 Killed in Attack on Arab Village', The Times, Friday, 2 January 1948; pg. 4; Issue 50958; col A.