Irgun Actions To Stop The Executions
After Yaakov Weitz, Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar were sentenced to death for their role in the Acre Prison Break, Irgun kidnapped two British military policemen, Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice while they were off duty in Netanya. Irgun announced that hanging its fighters would result in the subsequent hanging of the British soldiers. The death sentences were carried out on July 30, 1947. Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice were found hung in Netanya. Their bodies had been booby-trapped with a homemade bomb.
Menachem Begin spoke of the event saying: "it was one of the most bitter moments of my life but the cruel action in Netanya not only saved dozens of Jews from the gallows but also broke the neck of the British occupation, because when the gallows break down, the British rule, which is relied on it, breaks on its own". After this event, there were no more executions of Jewish militants by the British.
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