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During the 1948 Palestine war, on February 29 and again on March 31, the military coaches of the Cairo-Haifa train were mined by the Jewish militant group Lehi. On February 29, the Lehi mined the train north of Rehovot, killing 28 British soldiers and wounding 35. No civilians were hurt. One or more bombs laid on the track were detonated from a nearby orange grove. Lehi took credit for the bombing of the British train as revenge for the Ben Yehuda Street Bombing in Jerusalem. The train was the normal daily passenger express to which four military coaches had been attached.〔''The Times'', 1 March 1948.〕 On March 31, the train was mined again near Binyamina, a Jewish town near Caesarea, killing 40 persons and wounding 60. The casualties were all civilians, mostly Arabs. Although there were some soldiers on the train, none were injured. The ''Palestine Post'' and the ''New York Times'' attributed the attack to Lehi.〔''The Palestine Post'', 1 April 1948〕〔''New York Times'', 1 April 1948〕 The attacks on the train line had begun in 1947. On April 22, 1947 the train was mined outside Rehovot, the bombing killed five British officers, two Arab adults and a 3-year old, Gilbert Balladi.〔(Palestine Terrorists Kill 8 In Bombing of Troop Train ) NY Times, April 23, 1947〕 On May 15, 1947, the train track was bombed seven times south of Lydda. Two British army lieutenants were killed, two others seriously wounded and five other hurt in one bombing between Acre and Haifa. One commuter was injured when the engine and two cars were derailed by another bomb earlier in the day. Three crew-men were injured when their freight train was derailed in another bombing. Three railroad bridges were damaged in the attacks. The Stern gang reportedly called in warnings.〔(Two Britons Killed in Palestine Mine ) NY Times, May 16, 1947〕 On August 9, 1947, Irgun bombed a British troop train north of Lydda, killing the Jewish engineer.〔(Terrorists Wreck Haifa Troop Train ) NY Times, August 10, 1947〕〔(Trial of Two Jews Begin ) NY Times, November 18, 1947〕 On September 29, 1947, the train was bombed by Irgun twenty miles south of Haifa. The engine, coal car and two cabin cars were derailed, one person was hospitalized.〔(Terrorists Strike in Palestine Again ) NY Times, September 30, 1947〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cairo–Haifa train bombings 1948」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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