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and nearby Hawassa, where some of the Arab refinery workers lived. They fired into and blew up houses. Between 60 and 70 villagers were killed, including women and children. Zachary Lockman wrote that "the Jewish attackers killed some sixty men, women, and children and destroyed several dozen
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Arab workers stormed the refinery armed with tools and metal rods, beating 39–41 Jewish workers to death and wounding 49. British forces arrived only an hour after the riot started. According to the
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The Jewish Agency condemned the Irgun for the "act of madness" that preceded the killing of Jewish workers at the Haifa oil refinery, but at the same time authorized retaliation. The
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terrorist attack, where grenades were thrown into a crowd of about 100 day-labourers waiting at a bus stop outside the main gate of the then British-owned
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Relations between Jews and Arabs at the refinery had been known to be good. However, tensions rose in 1947–48 in the wake of the
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units arrived to put an end to the violence. This came to be known as the "Haifa Oil Refinery massacre".
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later retaliated by attacking two nearby Arab villages in what became known as the
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refinery workers, resulting in 39–41 deaths and 49 injuries, before the
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Lockman 1996 - "Forty-one Jews had been killed and forty-nine wounded."
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Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948
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Lockman 1996 – "Six people were killed and forty-two wounded."
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Lockman, Zachary (10 July 1996). "The Descent Into Madness".
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mounted a retaliatory raid which became known as the
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Infobox civilian attack
considered for merging
1947-1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine

Haifa
Mandatory Palestine
Irgun
Haifa Oil Refinery
Jewish
British Army
Palestine Police
Haganah
Balad al-Shaykh massacre
1947 UN Partition Plan
Jews
Palestine
Jewish Agency
Balad al-Shaykh massacre
Haganah
Balad al-Shaykh massacre
Balad al-Shaykh
University of California Press
ISBN
9780520204195
"39 Jews massacred at oil refinery"
The Palestine Post
"41 Jews Lynched At Haifa Oil Refinery After Irgun Bombs Killed Six Arabs"
Jewish Telegraph Agency

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