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During the lead-up to the 1948 Palestine war the Cairo-Haifa train was mined by the Jewish group Lehi several times. The train was attacked because it was used by the British soldiers. The attached military coaches were targeted. On March 31, the train was mined near Binyamina, a Jewish settlement in the neighborhood of 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.

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  • Cairo–Haifa train bombings 1948
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  • During the lead-up to the 1948 Palestine war the Cairo-Haifa train was mined by the Jewish group Lehi several times. The train was attacked because it was used by the British soldiers. The attached military coaches were targeted. On March 31, the train was mined near Binyamina, a Jewish settlement in the neighborhood of 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.
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  • During the lead-up to the 1948 Palestine war the Cairo-Haifa train was mined by the Jewish group Lehi several times. The train was attacked because it was used by the British soldiers. The attached military coaches were targeted. On February 29, the Jewish underground group Lehi mined the train north of Rehovot, killing 28 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. On March 31, the train was mined near Binyamina, a Jewish settlement in the neighborhood of 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.
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