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1940
July
01
Italian air raids on Palestine
In July 1940 Italian bombers from Rhodes began attacking Haifa. The first raid, on 15 July, set oil tanks ablaze; the second, on 24 July, killed over forty.
September
09
The Italian air raid on Tel Aviv
On 9 September 1940 Italian bombers from the Dodecanese hit residential Tel Aviv. Between 107 and 137 died – the deadliest single air raid on Palestine.
1941
May
09
The fatwa of the Mufti of Jerusalem
On 9 May 1941 the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, proclaimed in Baghdad a fatwa calling on Muslims to wage holy war against Britain.