1938 Tiberias massacre

1938 Tiberias massacre

The Tiberias massacre took place on October 2, 1938 during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, in the city of Tiberias, then under the control of the British Mandate of Palestine and today part of the State of Israel.

Arab rioters killed twenty Jews in Tiberias after infiltrating the Kiryat Shmuel settlement. [ [http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1938.htm League of Nations Archives] ]

The British mandate reported that: "It was systematically organized and savagely executed. Of the nineteen Jews killed, including women and children, all save four were stabbed to death. That night and the following day the troops engaged the raiding gangs". [http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/cc68bab76ec42e79052565d0006f2df4?OpenDocument British mandate report] United Nations]

After the massacre, the Irgun wanted to make a joint retaliatory operation with Haganah to deter such events, but Haganah did not agree. [Ada Amichal Yevin, "In Purple", The Life of Yair - Abraham Stern", Hadar Publishing House Tel Aviv, 1986, page 135 ]

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