Approximately 100 people were killed in the King David Hotel bombing.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources consistently report 91 deaths in the July 22, 1946 King David Hotel bombing, which the claim's 'approximately 100' rounds loosely but within a reasonable range.
What was said
… The Jewish Agency, which was the main Zionist organization, wasn't happy with any of this, but even you know, people like Isak Samir, who was Prime Minister of Israel in the in the uh 90s, uh was a part of the part of the Irgun. In the King David Hotel, you killed roughly 100 people, civilians. That was the document center of Mandatory Palestine, and there was no warning given, although they claimed that, and it really it drove the Jewish Agency or the Zionist Agency insane. It was a terrible thing. …
The Pete Quiñones Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Full Fact and BBC Witness History both report 91 people killed in the 1946 bombing, with 28 British, 41 Palestinian Arab, and 17 Palestinian Jewish victims.[1][2]
Supports. Wikipedia and a 2026 commemorative article give the accepted final toll as 91 fatalities, with 46 injured.[3][4]
Context. Early preliminary tolls were lower (41 confirmed dead on day one, 52 by July 24), and the count was later revised upward to 91 as bodies were recovered.[4][5]
Context. Sources describe the victims as a mix of civilians, officials, and soldiers, so the 'civilians' wording in the post is only partly accurate, though the claim under check concerns the death toll.[6][7]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 1, 5 not rated
- 1This is a real photo of Margaret Thatcher and Menachem ...fullfact.org · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Witness History | The Bombing of the King David Hotelbbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 3King David Hotel bombing - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Israel Revisits the King David Hotel Bombing as Jerusalem Approaches the 80th Anniversary of the Historic 1946 Attacktravelandtourworld.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 525 Jul 1946 - DEATH TOLL RISES IN JERUSALEM - Trovetrove.nla.gov.au · not rated · cited for: context
- 6On This Day: Zionists bomb King David Hotel and kill 91 in bid to build Jewish state in Palestineuk.news.yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Ruins of Jerusalem's King David Hotelencyclopedia.com · not rated · cited for: context
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