Haifa Oil Refinery massacre

Haifa Oil Refinery massacre refers to an incident that took place on 30 December 1947. After operatives of the Zionist paramilitary organisation, the Irgun , threw a number of grenades at a crowd of 100 Arab day-labourers who had gathered outside the main gate of the British-owned Haifa Oil refinery looking for work, six people were killed and 42 wounded. Minutes following this attack, Arab refinery workers and others began attacking the Jewish refinery workers, resulting in 39 deaths and 49 injuries , before British army and Palestine Police units arrived to put an end to the violence. Haganah later retaliated by attacking two nearby Arab villages where the dead included women and children. Commission of enquiry report, Palestine Post , 20 Feb 1948.

The Haifa Oil Refinery massacre took place on 30 December 1947 in Mandatory Palestine . It began when six Arabs were killed and 42 wounded after members of the Zionist paramilitary organisation, the Irgun , threw a number of grenades at a crowd of about 100 Arab day-labourers. These Arab day-labourers had gathered outside the main gate of the then British-owned Haifa Oil Refinery to look for work. Minutes after this Irgun attack, Arab refinery workers and others began attacking the Jewish refinery workers, resulting in 39 deaths and 49 injuries, before the British army and Palestine Police units arrived to put an end to the violence. This came to be known as the " Haifa Oil Refinery massacre ". Haganah later retaliated by attacking two nearby Arab villages in what became known as the Balad al-Shaykh massacre , where between 21 and 70 Arabs were killed, while skirmishes followed in Haifa .

1947 Arab massacre in Haifa The Haifa Oil Refinery massacre took place on 30 December 1947 in Mandatory Palestine . It began when six Arabs were killed and 42 wounded after members of the Zionist paramilitary organisation, the Irgun , threw a number of grenades at a crowd of about 100 Arab day-labourers. These Arab day-labourers had gathered outside the main gate of the then British-owned Haifa Oil Refinery to look for work. Minutes after this Irgun attack, Arab refinery workers and others began attacking the Jewish refinery workers, resulting in 39 deaths and 49 injuries, before the British army and Palestine Police units arrived to put an end to the violence. This came to be known as the " Haifa Oil Refinery massacre ". Haganah later retaliated by attacking two nearby Arab villages in what became known as the Balad al-Shaykh massacre , where between 21 and 70 Arabs were killed, while skirmishes followed in Haifa .

1947 massacre of Jewish workers in Haifa The Haifa Oil Refinery massacre took place on 30 December 1947 in Mandatory Palestine , when 39 Jewish refinery workers were killed by their Arab coworkers in a mass lynching. The massacre was a response to an Irgun terrorist attack, where grenades were thrown into a crowd of about 100 day-labourers waiting at a bus stop outside the main gate of the then British-owned Haifa Oil Refinery . Six Arabs were killed and 42 were wounded. Minutes after the Irgun attack, Arab refinery workers and others began attacking the Jewish refinery workers, resulting in 39 deaths and 49 injuries, before the British Army and Palestine Police units arrived to put an end to the violence. The Haganah later retaliated by attacking two nearby Arab villages in what became known as the Balad al-Shaykh massacre , where between 60 and 70 Arabs were killed. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ). Lockman 1996 - "Forty-one Jews had been killed and forty-nine wounded." "39 Jews massacred at oil refinery" .