Israel plans 'scandalous' new settlement

Database of Terrorist Incidents
1940-1949
1945
October 31
Jewish terrorist offensive against British rule in Palestine begins,
with a wave of bomb attacks on police vehicles, railway sites and
Haifa oil refinery. One policeman, one soldier and two railway
workers killed.
November 27
Eight British soldiers killed in bomb attack on police station
Jerusalem, Palestine, in Jewish Irgun terrorist attack.
1946
January 7
Three American civilian officials killed when Nazi "Werewolf"
terrorists burn down their house in Passau, Germany.
March 11
Iranian scholar Amhed Kashravi stabbed to death by Fedayyan-e
eslam guerrillas in Iran.
July 22
Ninety people killed and forty five wounded after Jewish
terrorists blow up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Palestine,
which was home to British government and military offices. The
terrorists held workers at pistol point while they planted the
explosives in the basement of the hotel.
September 30
One US soldier killed when ambushed by terrorists at Fort
McKinley, Philippines.
October 31
British embassy in Rome, Italy, wrecked by two bombs in suit
cases left by Jewish Irgun terrorists. No casualties.
1947
July 12
Jewish Irgun terrorists kidnap and then hang two British Army
sergeants. The terrorists were trying to secure the release of
three Irgun members who had been sentenced to death by the
British authorities in Palestine.
September 29
Jewish Irgun terrorists bomb police station in Haifa, Palestine,
killing four British and four Arab policemen, as well as two Arab
civilians. Forty six people injured.
December 3
Train derailed near Arras, France, by Communist terrorists killing
twenty and injuring forty.
December 12
Twenty Arabs, five Jews and two British soldiers killed and thirty
wounded in Jewish terrorist bomb attacks on buses in Haifa and
Ramleh, Palestine. British mandate to rule Palestine ends on 15
May 1948; state of Israel established.
December 29
Jewish Irgun terrorists throw grenades from passing taxi into
café near the Damascus gate, Jerusalem, Palestine, killing
eleven Arabs and two British policemen.
1948
January 30
Indian independence leader and statesman Mahatma Gandhi
shot dead in Delhi, India, by Nathuram Vinayak Godse.
March 7
Two American diplomats murdered by Viet Minh terrorists in
Saigon, Indochina.
March 11
Headquarters of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, Palestine,
destroyed by Arab car bomb killing thirteen and injuring eighty
four.
April 9
Jewish Irgun terrorist group attacks Deir Yassim, Palestine,
murdering two hundred and fifty four Arab women and children
captured in the remains of the village.
Bomb explodes near US embassy in Bogota, Colombia, during
Organisation of American States conference.
May 8
American CBS correspondent George Polk murdered by three
communists in Salonika, Greece, after he was lured to a meeting
on a boat in the city's harbour. His body was dumped in the sea.
July 22
Pro-peace activist Stephen J Supina, drops home made dynamite
bomb on United Nations headquarters in New York, United
States. No damage caused and he later surrenders to the
authorities.
September 17
United Nations mediator in Palestine, Swedish Count Folke
Bernadotte, murdered by Jewish Stern gang extremist in
Jerusalem, Palestine, who fired at point blank range through
window of his official car.
1949
December 3
British governor of Sibu, Sarawak, Duncan George Stewart,
stabbed to death by anti-British Malayans in North Borneo.