Summary
House and courtyard in the Ajami quarter of Jaffa, next to the French Hospital, used under the Zionist Commission as a shelter for newly arrived Jewish immigrants until work was found for them, attacked on 1 May 1921 (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.28).
Details
- About 100 immigrants, mostly young men, were in the building. In the attack, on the report’s findings, police fired at and broke through the gate and led part of the mob into the yard after one or two bombs thrown from the upper floor had killed one man; 13 Jews were killed or mortally wounded and 24 wounded, and one Arab was killed and four wounded; the upper storey was not attacked for a reason the Commission could not discover (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.28-29).
Related pages
Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, Jaffa, Jaffa Riots of May 1921