Summary
The bombing of the King David Hotel in Palestine 60 years ago was the first major terrorist attack of the 20th Century. LINDSAY JENNINGS speaks to a grandmother who survived it
IT was just after noon on Monday July 22, 1946, when they came.See the full content of this document
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'It Sounded Like a Stone Avalanche'
A handful of armed men dressed as Arabs pulled a delivery truck alongside the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
Carefully, the men unloaded several milk churns they had brought containing 350 kilograms of TNT, dragging them along a service corridor to the cafe bar. They were directly underneath the offices of the British forces in Palestine, who were the...See the full content of this document
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