Night of the Bridges

When

1946

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

31.75° N, 35.24° E

Description

haganah operation against the British in Mandatory Palestine, June 1946

Date from

year in its Wikidata description

Placed at the district its description names, Mandatory Palestine.

Haganah operation against the British in Mandatory Palestine, June 1946

The Night of the Bridges was a Haganah venture on the night of 16 to 17 June 1946 in the British Mandate of Palestine, as part of the Jewish insurgency in Palestine (1944–47). Its aim was to destroy eleven bridges linking Mandatory Palestine to the neighboring countries Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and Egypt, in order to suspend the transportation routes used by the British Army.

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