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| A cartoon published shortly after the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel. |
The
King David Hotel bombing was an attack carried out on July 22, 1946 by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization the Irgun on the British administrative headquarters for Palestine, which was housed in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem... 91 people were killed, most of them being staff of the hotel or
Secretariat: 21 were first-rank government officials; 49 were
second-rank clerks, typists and messengers, junior members of the
Secretariat, employees of the hotel and canteen workers; 13 were
soldiers; 3 policemen; and 5 were members of the public. By nationality,
there were 41 Arabs, 28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian. 46 people were injured.
Some of the deaths and injuries occurred in the road outside the hotel and in adjacent buildings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
