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    The Irgun (Hebrew: ארגון; full title: Hebrew: הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל HaIrgun HaTzvaʾi Ha-Leumi b-Eretz Israel, lit. "The National Military Organization...
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  • Palestine, the militant Zionist group Irgun carried out 60 attacks against Palestinian people and the British Army. Irgun was described as a terrorist organization...
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    paramilitary group called the Irgun, out of which another organization known as the Stern Gang emerged. Both the Irgun and the Stern Gang were responsible...
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    leadership of Palestine, remained cooperative with the British. But in 1944 the Irgun, an offshoot of the Haganah, launched a rebellion against British rule,...
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    Menachem Begin (category Irgun members)
    opposed by the Jewish Agency. As head of the Irgun, he targeted the British in Palestine. Later, the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947–48 Civil War...
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    King David Hotel bombing (category Irgun attacks)
    July 22, 1946, by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization Irgun during the Jewish insurgency. 91 people of various nationalities were killed...
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  •  'self-restraint'), which caused the breakaway of the more radical paramilitaries: Irgun and Lehi. Haganah militants received clandestine military support from Poland...
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  • notable members of the Irgun, either having been listed by the Irgun's website or by reputable independent sources. Former Irgun members have held positions...
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    Deir Yassin massacre (category Irgun attacks)
    including women and children. The attack was conducted primarily by the Irgun and Lehi, who were supported by the Haganah and Palmach. The massacre was...
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    In the pre-state period (1920s-1940s), Zionist paramilitaries like the Irgun, Lehi, Haganah and Palmach engaged in violent campaigns against British...
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    and admitted to having carried out acts of terrorism. Lehi split from the Irgun militant group in 1940 in order to continue fighting the British during...
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  • create total unity in Palestine. The Irgun (Hebrew: ארגון; full title: Hebrew: הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל HaIrgun HaTzvaʾi Ha-Leumi b-Eretz Israel, lit...
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    The Sergeants affair (category Irgun)
    during Jewish insurgency in Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin...
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    Altalena Affair (category Irgun)
    place in June 1948 between the newly created Israel Defense Forces and the Irgun (also known as Etzel), one of the Jewish paramilitary groups that were in...
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  • 415 Jews and several hundred Britons were killed.[page needed] List of Irgun attacks during the 1930s Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine...
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    Gang) and Irgun, destroying the Haganah's military power, boosting army morale and preventing a coup d'état being mounted by the Lehi and Irgun. On June...
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    Avraham Stern (category Irgun members)
    (Hebrew: יאיר), was one of the leaders of the Jewish paramilitary organization Irgun. In September 1940, he founded a breakaway militant Zionist group named...
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  • with other attacks on the same night by the Haganah (on railways), the Irgun (on Lydda railway station) and the Palmach (on two British coast guard vessels...
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    of western Palestine. Early Revisionist Zionist groups such as Betar and Irgun Zvai-Leumi regarded the territory of the Mandate for Palestine, including...
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    Amichai Paglin (category Irgun members)
    was an Israeli businessman who served as Chief Operations Officer of the Irgun during the Mandate era. He planned and personally led numerous attacks against...
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    operations, the Irgun refused and as a result, the Haganah began supplying intelligence to the British enabling them to arrest Irgun members, and abducting...
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  • direct battle between the British and the Irgun, was seen as a great victory for the latter, and enabled the Irgun to take credit for the complete conquest...
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  • The Saison (category Irgun)
    ordered by the official bodies of the pre-state Yishuv, to suppress the Irgun's insurgency against the government of the British Mandate in Palestine,...
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  • The Irgun bombed the district police headquarters in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine on September 29, 1947. The attack killed ten or twelve people, including...
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    under Lehi and Irgun, and a few thousand armed settlers. Irgun was eventually absorbed into the Jewish Defence Army. The activities of Irgun was monitored...
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    affair, in which the Irgun took two British sergeants hostage as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun operatives. After the...
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  • The following is a partial list of Lehi operations. Lehi split from the Irgun in August 1940, and dissolved in late 1948. May 1 – Attempt on Assistant...
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    before independence in 1948. During British mandate over Palestine, the Irgun were among the Zionist groups labelled as terrorist organisations by the...
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    covert creation and consolidation of a paramilitary arm with the Haganah and Irgun. In 1930 Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam organised and established the Black...
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    also supported Jewish paramilitary groups such as the Haganah, Betar, and Irgun, providing them with weapons and training. In 1939, at the start of World...
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