Rechovot railway assassination
During the railway attack in Rechovot on February 29, 1948, a bomb was detonated under a car shortly after the train had left the train station in Rechovot , then Mandate Palestine , now Israel . 28 people died.
Starting position
In the spring of 1948, Palestine found itself in a tense situation, a solution on how to end the mandate exercised by Great Britain without an open conflict broke out was not in sight. All those involved increased their willingness to use violence. Assassinations and murders were the order of the day.
The daily, continuous express train of the Palestine Railways from Cairo to Haifa via the Sinai Railway and the Palestinian main line Sinai – Lod always carried cars that were reserved for the British military. There were three that day and they were crowded. Three attacks had already been carried out on the train.
Course of events
Members of the Jewish, paramilitary underground organization Lechi had installed a bomb under the wagons used by the military, which they set off shortly after the train left the Rechovot station.
consequences
28 soldiers died and 35 were injured. The number of civilian victims is said to have been around 100.
literature
- AP-UP: 28 dead by terrible assassination attempt: English military train was blown up in Palestine. In: Wiener Kurier. Published by the American armed forces for the population of Vienna , March 1, 1948, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
Remarks
- ↑ The term "military train" is also used in press coverage, but this is not the case.