What the records say
- When
- 4 May 1947
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 32.92° N, 35.07° E
- Description
- Acre Prison break: Irgun forces break through the walls of the Acre prison and free 28 incarcerated Irgun and Lehi activists. 214 Arab prisoners also escaped.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Acre Prison break.
Summary
Acre Prison break: Irgun forces break through the walls of the Acre prison and free 28 incarcerated Irgun and Lehi activists
Acre Prison break
Prison break in Palestine in 1947
The Acre Prison break was an operation undertaken by the Irgun on May 4, 1947, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in which its men broke through the walls of the Central Prison in Acre and freed 27 incarcerated Irgun and Lehi members.
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