1938 Tiberias massacre
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The Tiberias massacre took place on October 2, 1938 in the city of Tiberias, a city in present-day Israel.
Arab extremists murdered 20 Jews in Tiberias after infiltrating the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood.[1]
The British mandate reported that: "It was systematically organized and savagely executed. Of the 19 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".[2]
After the massacre, the Jewish Irgun wanted to make a joint retaliatory operation with the mainstream Haganah to deter such events but Haganah refused. [3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ League of Nations Archives
- ^ British mandate report
- ^ Ada Amichal Yevin, "In Purple", The Life of Yair - Abraham Stern", Hadar Publishing House Tel Aviv, 1986, page 135
