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__**King David Hotel bombing**__


 * Introduction:**

This attack was in July 22. in 1946. This was a message from Jews to the British in Palestine by attacking a very important buiding for British called King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the chairman of this plan was Irgún Tzvaí Leumí lidering a group called //Tnuat Hameri// __(picture 1)__ that means "Movimiento de Rebelión Hebrea"//,// the objective of that group was the eject of British in Palestine, but in this case the objective of Tnuat Hameri, a group that supported the **Zionism,** was to destroy some important documents for Jews like information of secret activities of intelligence against the Arabs and names of soldiers of //Hagana// __(picture 2)__, that were stolen by British from the Jewish Agency and they hid that documents in the King David Hotel, so the objective of Irgun was the complete destruction of King David Hotel __(picture 3)__ with the documents inside of that.


 * Steps of the Jew attack and consecuences:**

First, Irgun members hid some mines into milk cans __(picture 4)__, secondly they launched an inofensive firework inside King Hotel Hotel to prevent the people insisde of the Hotel because the Tnuat Hameri purpose wans´t to destroy people, it was only to destroy the documents inside of the hotel; for that reason before the explosion Irgun members called King David Hotel officines to prevent them and to get out all people inside there (this attack was called //**MalonChik**// because that was the code that they used for the attack). The third step was to get the mines inside the Hotel by an Irgun member that was wearing like an Hotel worker, he put the mines in the basement of the Hotel, and finally another Irgun man, Guideon __(picture 5)__, shouted: "Get out of here, the Hotel is going to explode". There were 91 people killed, there were 41 Arabs, 28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian.


 * Reactions of Zionists and Britishs:**

In the one hand the jewish political leadership said that they weren´t behind of backs of that attack, he also said that the weren´t feel responsable of that attack, but the fact that British didn´t know is that Tnuat Hameri was a movement created by Jewish Resistance Movement an organization governed by Jewish Agency, and David Ben Gurion the leadership of Jewish Agency said "it attack was a good message for British beacuse they are our direct enemies". In another hand the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, caracterized this attack like horrible, brutal, insane and murderous crime. But The Manchester Guardian a respectful newspaper from Britain __(picture 6__), said that "British firmness inside Palestine gave us more problems that we are used to".


 * Pictures:**



Picture 1: Irgun emblem (the gun is refering that his group are using the force to defend the Jews rights).



Picture 2: Hagana symbol



Picture 3: Images of King David Hotel after the explosion.



Picture 4: Milk cans were the mines were hid by Tnuat Hemari members.



Picture 5: Guideon, a very dangerous and important Tnuat Hameri member.



Picture 6: The Manchester Guardian, a respectful newspaper of Britain.


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