Shubaki family assassination
1947 event in Mandatory Palestine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shubaki family assassination was the summary execution of five adult members of the Shubaki family in the village of Arab al-Shubaki, Mandatory Palestine on 19 November 1947 by Lehi, a Zionist paramilitary and militant organization, on suspicions that the men had acted as informants for the British police.[1]
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Part of the Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine and Jewish extremist terrorism | |
Location | Arab al-Shubaki, Palestine |
Date | 19 November 1947 4:30 am |
Target | suspected informants |
Attack type | Reprisal operation, summary execution |
Weapon | Submachine guns |
Deaths | 5 unarmed adult men of the Shubaki family |
Perpetrators | Lehi |
No. of participants | 10 militants |
Motive | Collective punishment, deterrence of Palestinians |
Charges | None |
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The attack followed a period of relative calm for several months, during which Zionist violence was almost exclusively directed at the British presence rather than Palestinians, raising fears of retaliation against Yishuv.[2] Eleven days later there was indeed a retaliatory attack killing seven of them, which is widely regarded as having sparked the Civil War.[3]