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- Semiramis_Hotel_bombing abstract "The Semiramis Hotel bombing was an attack carried out by the Haganah on the Christian owned Semiramis Hotel in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.After suspecting that the Semiramis hotel was one of two Arab headquarters in Katamon, the Haganah planted a bomb there on the night of 5–6 January 1948. The mission was carried out by a team of four men supported by ten riflemen. The explosion killed 24 or 26 people, which may [have included] Iraqi irregulars, civilians and at least one child. Among the dead were seven members of the Aboussouan family and Hubert Lorenzo, the 23-year-old son of the proprietor. The Spanish vice-consul, Manuel Allende Salazar, was also killed in the attack.According to Associated Press reports at the time a Haganah spokesman said that the Jerusalem hotel attack was executed because "the building was an important meeting place of Arab gangs, where arms were distributed to villages in the Jerusalem area." He continued, "Unfortunately, we cannot hit at the Arab band's (main) headquarters as it is secreted in a mosque."Arab sources described the attack as a "reprisal" for the rioting the preceding week in a Haifa refinery in which 47 Jews were killed.The attack was harshly condemned by the British authorities, and David Ben-Gurion sacked Mishael Shaham, the Haganah officer responsible for the Jerusalem sector, replacing him with David Shaltiel. According to John B. Quigley, the hotel was not a military headquarters and the British authorities denounced the attack as the "wholesale murder of innocent people." Ilan Pappé and J. Bowyer Bell attribute the bombing to the Irgun.Prior to the bombing, the distinctive white jeep of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of Jerusalem's Arab forces, had been seen in the hotel driveway.Mishael Shaham, the Haganah leader who organised the bombing, had been sent to Jerusalem to stop the flow of Jews leaving mixed areas of Jerusalem. It was thought that 'a major blow in Arab Katamon ... might force the Arabs out of the quarter and change the psychological climate in the city.'".
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- Semiramis_Hotel_bombing subject Category:Mass_murder_in_1948.
- Semiramis_Hotel_bombing subject Category:Massacres_in_Mandatory_Palestine.
- Semiramis_Hotel_bombing subject Category:Terrorism_in_Jerusalem.
- Semiramis_Hotel_bombing subject Category:Zionist_terrorism.
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- Semiramis_Hotel_bombing comment "The Semiramis Hotel bombing was an attack carried out by the Haganah on the Christian owned Semiramis Hotel in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.After suspecting that the Semiramis hotel was one of two Arab headquarters in Katamon, the Haganah planted a bomb there on the night of 5–6 January 1948. The mission was carried out by a team of four men supported by ten riflemen.".
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