british withdrawal from palestine

'Having Been a Soldier', Lt Col Colin Mitchell. "The Jews were now fortifying their country settlements and one of our duties was to escort convoys of food and non-military supplies to these settlements through Arab territory. Some deserted with their weapons, including tanks and PP Eddie Brown and Cpl Peter Madison helped bomb Ben Yehuda Street with great loss of life. The Committee noted that the construction, which restricted considerably the scope of the National Home, was made prior to the confirmation of the Mandate by the Council of the League of Nations and was formally accepted at the time by the Executive of the Zionist Organisation.[130]. With the end of the Mandate, the remaining British troops in Israel were concentrated in an enclave in the Haifa port area through which they were being withdrawn and at RAF Ramat David, which was maintained to cover the withdrawal. Announces – Jewish Telegraphic Agency", "Summary of the work of the League of Nations, January 1920 – March 1922", – Minutes of the Permanent Mandates Commission/League of Nations 32nd session, 18 August 1937, See the Judgment in "Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory", "Anatomy of the 1936–39 Revolt: Images of the Body in Political Cartoons of Mandatory Palestine", "The Avalon Project : The Palestine Mandate", "PERMANENT MANDATES COMMISSION MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-SECOND SESSION", "FRUS: Foreign relations of the United States diplomatic papers, 1937. The British decision to withdraw from the Palestine mandate in 1947–1948 may at first glance appear contradictory to British strategic interests. British withdrawal from Palestine was a long-drawn out affair. The well-organized Zionist state-in-waiting was already beginning to take over security duties in some areas: "When I worked with the Jewish technicians I've mentioned, I would pick then up at a location in Tel Aviv which we had previously agreed upon; Dizengoff Street being one such pick up point. It was another year before the British troops began their withdrawal. The British decision to withdraw from the Palestine mandate in 1947–1948 may at first glance appear contradictory to British strategic interests. In By Sea and By Land Robin Neillands mentions Prossi's Restaurant on Mount Carmel Avenue for Sunday Lunch and their rather good whiskey sours, and the Piccadilly: "One night we were enjoying a quiet beer, as was our wont, when a large number of Irgun Zvi Leumi came in, wearing denison smocks, carrying sten-guns and dripping with grenades. British Pathé clip of 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards leaving Mount Carmel, Haifa. They were mostly RAOC or technical corps who had easiest access and included a colonel, a captain and a number of quartermaster-sergeants. The war, which was to last until 1949, would see Israel expand to encompass about 78% of the territory of the former British Mandate, with Jordan seizing and subsequently annexing the West Bank and Egypt seizing the Gaza Strip. On May 15, 1948, the day after the Jewish Agency proclaimed the independent state of Israel and immediately following the British withdrawal from Palestine, Transjordan joined its Arab neighbours in the first Arab-Israeli war. Greater Jerusalem was to … Moyne was the British Minister of State for the Middle East and the assassination is said by some to have turned British Prime Minister Winston Churchill against the Zionist cause. Then he set down the following principles: 1. Electric current mainly flowed to Jewish industry, following it to its nestled locations in Tel Aviv and Haifa. This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. [105], According to historian Rashid Khalidi, the mandate ignored the political rights of the Arabs. By 1936, Jews earned 2.6 times as much as Arabs. This pamphlet was followed by the first Zionist Congress, which accepted the Basle programme—the only programme in existence. Lehi, a small group of extremist Zionists, staged armed attacks on British authorities in Palestine. ", Sargent, Andrew. " In August 1929, there were riots in which 250 people died. Before the UN even voted on the proposal, the British declared that they would withdraw from Palestine on May 15, ending the Mandate unilaterally. In response, Zionists organised Aliyah Bet, a program of illegal immigration into Palestine. [134], A collection of private correspondence published by David Ben Gurion contained a letter written in 1937 which explained that he was in favour of partition because he didn't envision a partial Jewish state as the end of the process. [57], These events were the decisive factors that forced Britain to announce their desire to terminate the Palestine Mandate and place the Question of Palestine before the United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations. US President Harry S Truman angered the British Government by issuing a statement supporting the 100,000 refugees but refusing to acknowledge the rest of the committee's findings. Found insideRenowned historian Tom Segev strips away national myths to present a critical and clear-eyed chronicle of the year immediately following Israel’s foundation. “Required reading for all who want to understand the Arab-Israeli ... He was hearbroken as he had a great liking for Arabs. To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser. General Hugh Stockwell was given command of 6th Airborne and arrived in September 1947 with a remit to prevent loss of British lives and effect a smooth withdrawal. In 1926, the British authorities formally decided to use the traditional Arabic and Hebrew equivalents to the English name, i.e. Palestine was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 and remained under the rule of the Turks until World War One.Towards the end of this war, the Turks were defeated by the British forces led by General … This period was referred to as the "200 days of dread". Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer. However, according to Gibson-Watt they were just "a drop in the ocean". The army requisitioned some strategically-placed homes to set up security posts. A few minutes later the 'line clear' signal was given and we moved off slowly toward the station. It seemed to British statesmen, and particularly to the Haiti, Liberia, and the Philippines changed their votes at the last moment after concerted pressure from the US and from Zionist organisations. 3 From the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence Even though Arabs were not highly regarded by Nazi racial theory, the Nazis encouraged Arab support as a counter to British hegemony. A few, like Edwina Payton, who stayed on with local Arab workers in order to destroy documents, stayed to the last minute and then flew out. As a result, there was no possibility, for example, of marriages between confessional communities, and there were no civil marriages. The British authorities rejected this proposal; according to the Minutes of the Ninth Session of the League of Nations' Permanent Mandates Commission: Colonel Symes explained that the country was described as "Palestine" by Europeans and as "Falestin" by the Arabs. With the establishment of the Mandate, the Jewish community in Palestine formed the Zionist Commission to represent its interests. As of 1931, the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine was 26,625,600 dunams (26,625.6 km2), of which 8,252,900 dunams (8,252.9 km2) or 33% were arable. "Eight lovely horses I had to shoot (from Jalama Police Station) but I took very careful preparation to ensure that nothing went wrong, and so only eight bullets were used. [116] During the entire Mandate period, but especially during the latter half, the rivalry between the mufti and al-Nashashibi dominated Palestinian politics. The British now held a strip of land from Acre to the Egyptian border. "Under the Cover of War presents a critical examination of the last six months of the British Palestine mandate, November 1947 to mid-May 1948. The spirit of factionalism has penetrated most levels of society; one can see it among journalists, trainees, and the rank and file. After the war 250,000 Jewish refugees were stranded in displaced persons (DP) camps in Europe. [170], Literacy rates in 1932 were 86% for the Jews compared to 22% for the Palestinian Arabs, but Arab literacy rates steadily increased thereafter. The Arab refusal to accept the United Nations recommendation to partition the British Mandate of Palestine prompted Jewish communities in Palestine to also withdraw their support, resulting in civil war. The British Commonwealth, Europe, Near East and Africa: Palestine", "Avalon Project – Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry – Chapter V", http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13530194.2013.878518, Table 2 showing Holdings of Large Jewish Lands Owners as of December 31st, 1945, British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I – Page 245. What event increased international support for the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine? Sorrow, yes. Some components such as illegal immigration could only be estimated approximately. There shall be included in this law provisions framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by Jews who take up their permanent residence in Palestine.[127]. [18][19] The Council controlled the Waqf funds, worth annually tens of thousands of pounds[20] and the orphan funds, worth annually about £50,000, as compared to the £600,000 in the Jewish Agency's annual budget. Senior Army and Government personnel left by air to Haifa from Kalandia. However, the Jewish Agency, which represented the mainstream Zionist leadership and most of the Jewish population, still hoped to persuade Britain to allow resumed Jewish immigration, and cooperated with Britain in World War II. The Jewish Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) and Irgun (National Military Organisation) movements initiated violent uprisings against the British Mandate in the 1940s. the British withdrawal from Palestine. It will not bind the Jewish people. Irgun leader Menachem Begin announced, "The partition of the Homeland is illegal. [73] According to John Snetsinger, Chaim Weizmann visited President Truman on 19 November 1947 and said it was imperative that the Negev and Port of Aqaba be under Jewish control and that they be included in the Jewish state. The following table shows the 1945 land ownership of mandatory Palestine by district: The table below shows the land ownership of Palestine by large Jewish Corporations (in square kilometres) on 31 December 1945. As you probably read in the papers Dov Gruener and his three pals (they were, incidentally, three of those we caught on our road block at Lydda - the fourth was shot) were hanged last Wednesday morning. Men that they the Yishuv, despised and called murderers, but who escaped retribution and later became Prime Ministers of their State whilst we are ignored. On Nov. 29, after strong American pressure on a number of member countries, the UN voted to partition Palestine, a plan quickly rejected by the Palestinians. "[25], In October 1923, Britain provided the League of Nations with a report on the administration of Palestine for the period 1920–1922, which covered the period before the mandate.[26]. He explained that a first-class Jewish army would permit Zionists to settle in the rest of the country with or without the consent of the Arabs. [80][92] The 1948 Palestinian exodus occurred in the period leading up to the end of the Mandate and subsequently. We then proceeded slowly through the station, returning the fire of the Arabs vigorously. An Undistinguished Life, Andrew Gibson-Watt.. Philip Brutton was held up by Fawzi-al-Kawykji's men and demanded to see him. He came home in the Empress of Scotland, (previously named Empress of Japan) after a detour to Aqaba. A Soviet submarine sank the motor schooner Mefküre by torpedo and shellfire and machine-gunned survivors in the water,[53] killing between 300 and 400 refugees. It was used in the Balfour Declaration and in the Mandate, both of which promised the establishment of a "Jewish National Home" without, however, defining its meaning. A) Identify ONE way the weakening of the British Empire led to the creation of new states after World War II, as indicated by the newspaper article. On that same day, the British garrison in Jerusalem withdrew, and High Commissioner Alan Cunningham left the city for Haifa, where he was to leave the country by sea. "The railway was very dangerous: "The first part of the journey from Jerusalem to Lydda is a single line running through a deep gorge. In the subcontinent, riots over the spring and summer of 1947 escalated into ethnic cleansing in the divided areas. The British Army departed from Palestine leaving the … "Within the past three weeks, sabotage of road and rail communications, including the blowing up of the principal bridges over the Jordan, has caused damage estimated at well over a quarter of a million pounds.On the night of 17th June the railway workshops at Haifa were seriously damaged by explosions and fire. It has therefore followed with particular sympathy the struggle of freedom-loving Arabs, especially in Palestine, against Jewish interlopers. In July 1948 a PP detachment was inspected by His Majesty King George VI. [40][41][42] The same sentiment was recorded by Ben-Gurion on other occasions, such as at a meeting of the Jewish Agency executive in June 1938,[43] as well as by Chaim Weizmann.[42][44]. So in the months between the beginning of the British withdrawal and May 15, they were effectively immobilized. [47] On the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in 1943, SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sent telegrams of support for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husseini to read out for a radio broadcast to a rally of supporters in Berlin.[c][48][49]. Following the incident, British police launched a search and surrounded al-Qassam in a cave near Ya'bad. On 10 June 1940, Italy declared war on the British Commonwealth and sided with Germany. I was supposed to take the two Bren-guns with me, but the Sergeant insisted, quite rightly, that he couldn't be expected to hold the post without them. After the failure of the Arab population to accept the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, the 1947–1949 Palestine war ended with the territory of Mandatory Palestine divided among the State of Israel, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which annexed territory on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the Kingdom of Egypt, which established the "All-Palestine Protectorate" in the Gaza Strip. [113] They chose Hajj Amin al-Husseini to become Grand Mufti, although he was young and had received the fewest votes from Jerusalem's Islamic leaders. The Arabs had also increased their numbers rapidly, mainly as a result of the cessation of the military conscription imposed on the country by the Ottoman Empire, the campaign against malaria and a general improvement in health services. By the end of this book, the reader should be in an excellent position to go out and work for peace with justice for all peoples and states in the Middle East.”-Professor Francis A. Boyle, legal adviser to the Palestinian delegation to ... The White Paper policy itself radicalised segments of the Jewish population, who after the war would no longer cooperate with the British. However, the guarantees included a prohibition against discrimination in civil and political matters. [90] The United States immediately replied, recognizing "the provisional government as the de facto authority". And I will end Part 2 here. On 16 December 1947, the Palestine Police Force withdrew from the Tel Aviv area, home to more than half the Jewish population, and turned over responsibility for the maintenance of law and order to Jewish police. And I will end Part 2 here. On the 15th August 1947, India ceased to exist as a British colony. At 08.00 we set out with our load of ammunition and our double escort. The Jewish State was the title of Herzl's first pamphlet, which had the supreme merit of forcing people to think. The two sides clashed as the British organized their withdrawal. Surplus weapons and ammunition were thrown into the sea. 1926 Correction of Land Registers Ordinance, Bar-Yosef, Eitan. The partition plan was rejected out of hand[colloquialism?] I then handed over the post to the Arab Sergeant, Sgt Farris, with the arms and ammunition. The Haganah, a Jewish paramilitary organization, was initially involved in the post-war attacks against the British in Palestine but withdrew following the outrage caused by the 1946 Irgun bombing of the British Army Headquarters in the King David Hotel. Having handed over the future of Palestine to the United Nations in February 1947, the British abstained in the partition vote in November 1947, the British insisted on maintaining de jure administrative control until May 1948, the British refused to allow the United Nations authorised committee (authorised to implement the partition resolution) to enter Palestine at the beginning … A number of leaders and public figures saw an Axis victory as the likely outcome and a way of securing Palestine back from the Zionists and the British. All of it. … [163] Compared to Arabs in other countries, Palestinian Arabs earned slightly more. For us, at least the job was done. "; p. 72, at Dec 1947 "The League vowed, in very general language, "to try to stymie the partition plan and prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine,", "The Arabs rejected the United Nations Partition Plan so that any comment of theirs did not specifically concern the status of the Arab section of Palestine under partition but rather rejected the scheme in its entirety.". What I can only describe as Jewish soldiers (actually members of the Jewish 'underground army' the Haganah) dressed in the same uniform as I was wearing except their unit identification signs were in Hebrew, and bearing British Army rifles and revolvers) were the ones calling my driver to halt and examine our identification papers. Immediately after the UN resolution, the 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine broke out between the Arab and Jewish communities, and British authority began to break down. The Palestine Mandate, also the Mandate for Palestine,or the British Mandate for Palestine, was a League of Nations Mandate drafted by the principal Allied and associated powers after the First World War and formally approved by the League of Nations in 1922. A spokesman for the agency, Eliahu Epstein, told the US State Department that the Agency could not attend the London conference if the Grady-Morrison proposal was on the agenda. Kamel, Lorenzo. Object details Category Photographs Related period 1945-1989 (production), 1945-1989 (content) Creator Csasznik, Fred Catalogue number HU 54567 Part of The British however made acceptance of the terms of the mandate a precondition for any change in the constitutional position of the Arabs. The final compromise was to add the initials of the Hebrew proposed name, Alef-Yud, within parenthesis (א״י), whenever the Mandate's name was mentioned in Hebrew in official documents. Thus began the 1948 Israeli-Arab War…. In the case of a number of elements, a broader range of perspectives applies e.g. At this point we were ordered to load our weapons and be prepared to return fire. This included their horses which were mostly ordered to be shot to the distress of all. Rather, it was the combination of his being an effective nationalist activist and a member of one of Jerusalem's most respected notable families that made it advantageous to align his interests with those of the British administration and thereby keep him on a short tether." It was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in the early 16th century. However, as anti-Semitism grew in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jewish immigration (mostly from Europe) to Palestine began to increase markedly. [141][142] The Jewish owned agricultural land was largely located in the Galilee and along the coastal plain. The next day, Arab forces from Egypt, Transjordan (), Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon occupied the areas in southern and eastern Palestine not apportioned to the Jews by the UN partition of Palestine and then captured East Jerusalem, including the small Jewish quarter of the Old City. Found insideDraws on newly available documents from the National Archives in Britain to chronicle the historical events and key campaigns that led to the creation of Israel. Being honest was dangerous. [112] In dealings with the Palestinian Arabs, the British negotiated with the elite rather than the middle or lower classes. Among Us. According to Avneri, Jews held 1,850,000 dunams (1,850 km2) of land in 1947, or 6.94% of the total. the Holocaust the Arab-Israeli War the British withdrawal from Palestine the signing of the Balfour Declaration 25. Field Marshal Allenby entering Jerusalem with British troops on 11 December 1917, General Watson meeting with the Mayor of Jerusalem in December 1917, The surrender of Jerusalem by the Ottomans to the British on 9 December 1917 following the Battle of Jerusalem, The Rockefeller Museum, built in Jerusalem during the British Mandate, Supreme Military Tribunal of the British Mandate, Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem, YMCA in Jerusalem, built during the British Mandate, "Bevingrad" in Jerusalem, Russian Compound behind barbed wire, Movement and curfew pass, issued under the authority of the British Military Commander, East Palestine, 1946. 1939 - 1945. [83] "It was not scholarly religious credentials that made Hajj Amin an attractive candidate for president of the SMC in the eyes of colonial officials. Zionists claim that it was increased terrorist activity that drove out the troops but many atrocities such as the Goldsmith Officers' Club attack came after the decision to withdraw and a smooth, planned withdrawal over nine months is hardly a 'flight'. Starting in 1939, a clandestine immigration effort called Aliya Bet was spearheaded by an organisation called Mossad LeAliyah Bet. Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. [143] Stein gives the estimate of 2,000,000 dunams (2,000 km2) as of May 1948, or 7.51% of the total. This page was last edited on 8 September 2021, at 07:14. Competing interests of the two populations led to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine and the 1944–1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. [96] Around 4,500 Transjordanian troops, commanded partly by 38 British officers who had resigned their commissions in the British army only weeks earlier, including overall commander, General John Bagot Glubb, entered the Corpus separatum region encompassing Jerusalem and its environs (in response to the Haganah's Operation Kilshon)[97] and moved into areas designated as part of the Arab state by the UN partition plan. In the "free zone", which consisted of Haifa Bay, the coastal plain from Zikhron Ya'akov to Yibna, and the neighbohood of Jerusalem, there were no restrictions. Recognition of Israel (1948)", "Palestine Passports Cease to Give British Protection After May Govt. The British government placed limitations on Jewish immigration to Palestine. [52] The last refugee boats to try to reach Palestine during the war were the Bulbul, Mefküre and Morina in August 1944. On 19 April 1920, elections took place for the Assembly of Representatives of the Palestinian Jewish community.[14]. After transition to the British rule, much of the agricultural land in Palestine (about one third of the whole territory) was still owned by the same landowners as under Ottoman rule, mostly powerful Arab clans and local Muslim sheikhs. Data is from Survey of Palestine (vol. until June 5th, three weeks after the end of the Mandate. During this period, as well as restricting Jewish immigration, Britain handed over strategic military and police positions to the Arabs as they abandoned them, and froze Jewish Agency assets in London banks. See paragraphs 49, 70, and 129 of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion, Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, "Palestine. Frustration, yes. Palestine Betrayed, Robin H Martin. Seven members (Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, and Uruguay) recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states, with Jerusalem to be placed under international administration. Furthermore, a Supreme Muslim Council (SMC) was established and given various duties, such as the administration of religious endowments and the appointment of religious judges and local muftis. David Ben-Gurion, the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, formally declared the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. Egypt Nationalizes the Suez Canal Gamal Abder Nasser decides to take the Suez Canal back from France and Britain, this starts the Suez Crisis. Three members (India, Iran, and Yugoslavia) supported the creation of a single federal state containing both Jewish and Arab constituent states. Britain had been awarded the mandate from the League of Nations after the First World War but … [23], At the First World Congress of Jewish Women which was held in Vienna, Austria, 1923, it was decided that: "It appears, therefore, to be the duty of all Jews to co-operate in the social-economic reconstruction of Palestine and to assist in the settlement of Jews in that country. The White Paper of 1939, which placed immigration restrictions on Jews, stated that the Jewish population "has risen to some 450,000" and was "approaching a third of the entire population of the country". They had just returned from capturing Acre and had come to celebrate. Troops still in Palestine after Mandate ends: Paradata site. The elimination of the socalled Jewish national home and the liberation of all Arab countries from the oppression and exploitation of the Western powers is an unchangeable part of the Great German Reich policy. For the Arabs, this was unacceptable, as they felt that this would be "self murder". Following the Arab rejection of the Peel Commission recommendation, the revolt resumed in autumn of 1937. [169], Under the British Mandate, the country developed economically and culturally. Among the dead were British employees, both civilian and military, members of the hotel staff, both Jewish and Arab, and other bystanders. Even two years after the end of the war, the world-wide demand for the stuff could not be fully met so we had orders to recover as much as we could. quoted in Forgotten Conscripts. In 1930, Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam arrived in Palestine from Syria and organized and established the Black Hand, an anti-Zionist and anti-British militant organization. Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (ɡəˈmɑːl æbdɛl ˈnɑːsər; Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر حسين‎; 15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. 22nd April 1947, letter from Des Le Pard to his girlfriend, Barbs. Once they discovered what we were doing they promptly headed south ahead of us and did their own dismantling. I am sending my greetings to your eminence and to the participants of the meeting held today in the Reich capital under your chairmanship. [144] According to Fischbach, by 1948, Jews and Jewish companies owned 20% percent of all cultivable land in the country. [168] Overall, Khalidi concludes that Palestinian Arab society, while overmatched by the Yishuv, was as advanced as any other Arab society in the region and considerably more than several. During the Mandate, the Yishuv or Jewish community in Palestine, grew from one-sixth to almost one-third of the population. History invented: The British–Transjordanian ‘collusion’ revisited, BRITAIN AND TURKEY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Politics and Influence in the Early Cold War Era, By: MUSTAFA BILGIN. There had already been rioting and attacks on and massacres of Jews in 1921 and 1929. An Undistinguished Life, Andrew Gibson-Watt who left on 30th June. The mandate simply marked a transitory period, with the aim and object of leading the mandated territory to become an independent self-governing State. Terrorists offered them money not to but refusing the bribe they destroyed the turrets. The object of Zionism is to establish for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law." Doing so would have constituted an act of war against Britain, and the British would not allow them to move. An Undistinguished Life, Andrew Gibson-Watt who left on 30th June. The Hebrew name for the country was the designation "Land of Israel", and the Government, to meet Jewish wishes, had agreed that the word "Palestine" in Hebrew characters should be followed in all official documents by the initials which stood for that designation. Following the London Conference (1939) the British Government published a White Paper which proposed a limit to Jewish immigration from Europe, restrictions on Jewish land purchases, and a program for creating an independent state to replace the Mandate within ten years. Agreement between Arab Palestinian and Zionist leaders had proved impossible and Britain had no support from erstwhile allies or disloyal factions in Britain. See (. In 1922, al-Husseini was elected President of the Supreme Muslim Council which had been established by Samuel in December 1921. In Ottoman times, these duties had been fulfilled by the bureaucracy in Istanbul. Explosives too had to be dealt with. 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