On 30 December 1947 , members of the Irgun , a Jewish underground militia , threw bombs into a crowd of Arabs outside the gates of the Consolidated Refineries in Haifa , killing six and injuring 42 . In response Arab employees of the company killed 39 Jewish employees in what became known as the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre . The Jewish Haganah militia retaliated with a raid on the Arab village of Balad al-Shaykh , where many of the Arab refinery workers lived , in what became known as the Balad al-Shaykh massacre
Haifa Oil Refinery massacre
Haifa Oil Refinery massacre
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