Shubaki family assassination
| Shubaki family assassination | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine and Jewish extremist terrorism | |
| Location | Arab al-Shubaki, Palestine |
| Date | 19 November 1947 4:30 am |
| Target | Family of suspected informants |
Attack type | Reprisal operation, summary execution |
| Weapon | Submachine guns |
| Deaths | 5 unarmed adult men of the Shubaki family |
| Perpetrators | Lehi |
No. of participants | 10 militants |
| Motive | Collective punishment, deterrence of Palestinians |
| Charges | None |
The Shubaki family assassination was the summary execution of five adult members of the Shubaki family in the village of Arab al-Shubaki, Mandatory Palestine on 19 November 1947 by Lehi, a Zionist paramilitary and militant organization, on suspicions that members of that family had acted as informants for the British police.
The attack followed a period of relative calm for several months, during which Zionist violence was almost exclusively directed at the British presence rather than Palestinians, raising fears of retaliation against the Yishuv. Eleven days later there was indeed a retaliatory attack killing seven of them.