Suspected Haganah terrorists, wearing European clothes, throw…

January 1948 CE

Suspected Haganah terrorists, wearing European clothes, throw a grenade into the Semiramis Hotel, in Jerusalem's Katamon Quarter, causing superficial damage but no casualties on January 5, 1948.

During the ensuing confusion, a charge is placed in the basement of the building and it explodes about one minute later, completely demolishing half the hotel.

The terrorists start shooting at the houses in the neighborhood as they withdraw.

The attack kills eighteen Christian and Muslim Arabs, among them women and children, and wounds sixteen more.

All told, Jewish terrorists have killed one hundred and twenty-seven British soldiers and wounded three hundred and thirty-one from 1944 to 1948, as well as thousands of Arabs.

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