Operation Shark
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Operation Shark was a counter-terrorism operation conducted by the British Army and Palestine Police Force in Tel Aviv, then part of Mandatory Palestine, in response to the King David Hotel bombing. C
British paratroopers occupying a Tel Aviv intersection during Operation Shark
The 22 July bombing of the King David Hotel was the direct cause of Operation Shark.
Jewish civilians guarded by a soldier of the Parachute Regiment waiting to be interrogated
In the final years of the British Mandate for Palestine, tensions between the British authorities and the Zionist movement escalated into an armed insurgency. Zionist militias and underground groups—i
Operation Shark
…deprive the Irgun of manpower, hideouts, and weaponry. By 1946 the situation in Palestine had grown increasingly unstable. In response to an increase in insurgent activity, the Mandatory Palestine garrison and police force launched Operation Agatha on 29 June 1946. Checkpoints were set up, trains were flagged down, and…
Palestine Railway K class 2-8-4T steam locomotive and freight train derailed from the Jaffa and Jerusalem line after being sabotaged by Jewish insurgents in 1946
Irgun's declaration of revolt, February 1, 1944
Aftermath of the bombing of CID headquarters in Jerusalem
Zionist leaders arrested during Operation Agatha, in a detention camp in Latrun