Category: Terrorism, from Wikidata’s class “terrorist attack”
Haifa Oil Refinery massacre
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The Haifa Oil Refinery massacre took place on 30 December 1947 in Mandatory Palestine, when 39 Jewish refinery workers were killed by their Arab coworkers in a mass lynching.
The massacre was a response to an Irgun 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 Haifa Oil Refinery. Six Arabs were killed and 42 were wounded. Minutes after the Irgun attack, Arab refinery workers and others began attacking the Jewish refinery workers, resulting in 39 deaths and 49 injuries, before the British Army and Palestine Police units arrived to put an end to the violence. The Haganah later retaliated by attacking two nearby Arab villages in what became known as the Balad al-Shaykh massacre, where between 60 and 70 Arabs were killed.
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Haifa Oil Refinery massacre. (2026, July 15). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haifa_Oil_Refinery_massacre&oldid=1364323546
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“Haifa Oil Refinery massacre.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 July 2026, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haifa_Oil_Refinery_massacre&oldid=1364323546.
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