| 1947 Aden riots | ||||
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| Part of Spillover of the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine | ||||
 Aden from the Port of Aden, 1949 | ||||
| Date | 2–4 December 1947 | |||
| Location | 12°48′N 45°02′E / 12.800°N 45.033°E | |||
| Caused by | Disputes over United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine | |||
| Methods | Rioting, melee attacks | |||
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The Aden riots of December 2–4, 1947 targeted the Jewish community in the British Colony of Aden. The riots broke out from a planned three-day Arab general strike in protest of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), which created a partition plan for Palestine.[1] The riots resulted in the deaths of 82 Jews,[1][2] 33 Arabs, 4 Muslim Indians, and one Somali,[1] as well as wide-scale devastation of the local Jewish community of Aden.[2][3] The Aden Protectorate Levies, a military force of local Arab-Muslim recruits dispatched by the British governor Reginald Champion to quell the riots, were responsible for much of the killing.[1][4]
- ^ a b c d Ahroni, Reuben (1 October 2010), "Aden Riots (1947)", Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Brill, doi:10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_com_0000750, retrieved 30 March 2023
- ^ a b Aderet, Ofer (30 November 2016). "Jews of Aden recall the pogrom sparked by UN vote on Palestine partition plan". Haaretz. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ Goldsmith, Dani (6 December 2017). "Murder, looting, burning: Remembering the Aden riots of 1947". Times of Israel. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ Parfitt 1996.