The 1947 Jerusalem Riots in Palestine. Views of Jerusalem from a distance. Downtown Jerusalem with traffic and pedestrians. British authorities begin moving pedestrians away from an area. Smoke erupts from smoke bombs in the street. British troops fire machine gun into the air. "Zion Hall" sign is on building in background. Smoke emerging from building windows. Firefighters hose down smoke bombs in street as crowds are held back. A policewoman helps an old man to cross a street. Fire rescue personnel lower a women from a building on a rope. A ladder is set against side of building. People are lowered to sidewalk on stretchers and carried to Israeli ambulance.
During time of the 1947 Jerusalem Riots. A group of Israeli men walks past a building on a field. An open ditch and laying of a pipeline. Children planting in a field. Palestinians with rifles.
Meeting of the United Nations Security Council at Lake Success, New York, in 1947. A representative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and National Council of the Jews of Palestine [possibly Abba Hillel Silver] presents a statement approved by those groups on march 23, 1947. They object and are disappointed in the position taken by the United States regarding Palestine's administration, and state that at the end of the mandatory administration, a provisional Jewish Government will be established, not later than May 16th. The Soviet Union's representative to the UN, Andrei Gromyko, is seated at the same table, wearing dark glasses.
British troops gather outside Barclays Bank in Palestinian. Sign reads “Barclays Bank (Dominion Colonial and Overseas)”. Guards stand at the entrance of the bank. Clients entering the bank. Cartoon explosion. British troops evacuate victims from the blast site at Goldsmith Officers Club. A medic attempts to resuscitate a victim. Medics carry an injured on stretchers. A man lying face down on a stretcher. Rescue personnel search through debris of the Goldsmith Officers Club building in Jerusalem following the Irgun bombing on 1 March 1947. A Goldsmith Officers Club sign lying among the debris. Rescue personnel climbs down a ladder. The blasted façade of the Goldsmith Officers Club building after the terrorist bombing.
British Palestine troops search for suspects following the Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club in Jerusalem on 1 March 1947. British soldiers marching up the stairs of a building. Soldiers escort suspected terrorists away. Jewish men suspected of having ties to the Goldsmith Officers Club bombing are detained by British officers. Some journalists are seen holding cameras. Jewish men and women suspected of having ties to the Irgun and Stern Gang are detained on a tennis court. A detained Jewish man smiles while waiting in line to enter the tennis court. A soldier frisks a Jewish man for weapons.
Rescue and response following the Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club in Jerusalem on 1 March 1947. British Palestine military carry a casualty in a stretcher to a truck in front of debris of the officers club. British military patrol streets on foot and jeeps. British soldiers drive a Universal Carrier, also known as a Bren Gun Carrier, through the streets of Jerusalem. A bulldozer clears rubble from the destroyed Goldsmith Officers Club building. British soldier climbs ladder to rescue stranded men on top of building. A man smoking a pipe climbs down ladder after being rescued. British armored personnel carriers parked in front of ruins of the Goldsmith Officers Club British on King George Avenue. British soldiers search for suspects, marching a group of Jewish men down the stairs of a building. At tall British officer speaks briefly to an old woman while smoking a pipe. Jewish men and women suspected of having ties to the Irgun and Stern Gang are detained on a tennis court while others are searched for weapons.