The Sergeants affair

When

12 Jul 1947 – 31 Jul 1947

Kind

Murder

Coordinates

32.27° N, 34.89° E

Description

incident in which the Irgun kidnapped and hanged two British soldiers

1947 incident in Mandate Palestine

The Sergeants affair was a terrorist attack that took place in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, in which the Zionist paramilitary organization Irgun abducted two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice, and threatened to hang them if the death sentences passed on three Irgun militants—Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, and Yaakov Weiss—were carried o…

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