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Zion Mule Corps was a special military unit composed of Jewish volunteers, formed by the British Empire during World War I to meet logistical needs on the Gallipoli Front. The creation of the unit was a result of the strategic relationship established between the emerging Zionist movement in Palestine and the British government in the early 20th century. In 1915, a group of volunteers—mainly composed of Ottoman Jews who had taken refuge in Egypt—was transformed into this special unit with the kn

Also known as the Bogside Massacre, Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola), occurred on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, a region with a concentrated Catholic population. During a peaceful civil rights march, soldiers from the British Army’s Parachute Regiment opened fire on unarmed demonstrators and bystanders, resulting in the deaths of 14 civilians. Thirteen people were killed on the day of the incident, and a fourteenth victim died months later from his injuri