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Contemporaneously with the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, a riot against the Jewish community of Manama, in the British Protectorate of Bahrain, on December 5, 1947.[1] A mob of Iranian and Trucial States sailors ran through the Manama Souq,[2] looted Jewish homes and shops, and destroyed the synagogue.[citation needed] One Jewish woman died; she was either killed or died from fright.[3]
- ^ Stillman, 2003, p. 147.
- ^ Joyce, Miriam (2012), Bahrain from the Twentieth Century to the Arab Spring, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 7–8, ISBN 9781137031792,
"On December 4, 1947, a large mob, composed largely of Iranian and Trucial Coast sailors, ran through the Bahraini suq (shopping area), charging into Jewish homes and shops. The mob smashed furniture, and during the riot "one Jewish woman was either killed, or died from fright."
- ^ Joyce 2012.