- Acre Prison
In the time of the British Mandate the citadel in the old city of Acre was used as a prison, In which many Arabs were imprisoned as criminals or for participating in the
1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine . Around 140 prisoners were executedduring thePalestinian general strike alone.On April the 19th 1947
Dov Gruner and the three men (Yehiel Dresner, Mordechai Alkahi and Eliezer Kashani) captured by the British 6th Airborne Division were hanged in Acre Prison to become the first post war ‘martyrs’ of the Irgun, Dov Gruner in a broadcast declared the British Army and Administration to be ‘criminal organizations’.The prison also contained Jewish prisoners, members of the
Hagana ,Lehi , andIrgun . One of those prisoners wasEitan Livni (father ofTzipi Livni ), the Irgun operations officer.Cite web
last = Lapidot
first = Yehuda
title = The Acre Prison Break
work = Jewish Virtual Library
accessdate = 2008-01-15
url = http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Acre.html] In total, the prison contained 700 Arab prisoners and 90 Jewish prisoners.ee also
Acre Prison break
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