Israeli men and women are shot during illegal military training. Long shot of Haganah men lined up for inspection. Close up shot of the two Haganah men. Inspection. Close up shot of Haganah defence men. Close up shot of Haganah flag - Star of David. Seated troops lining barbed wire. Various shots of the men at military training. They are seen jumping on barbed wire and jumping over men lying on barbed wire. Magazine filling (sten gun). Close up shot of magazine filling, pan to collection of arms. Various shots of the men at firing range, shooting.Close up shot of Haganah girl. Pan along line of girls at military training. Girls turn left and march away. General view of fort, trainees breaking up. Close up of a sign, Mansiah quarter, pan to street. Haganah defence post, warning civilians. Haganah soldiers running through holes in wall. Top view of the men running towards opening in wall. Sniper\'s post. Haganah men crossing the road.The Haganah: whose name means \"defense\"; the semi-legal armed force of the Jewish community in Palestine (known as the \'Yishuv\'); founded in 1920 and drawing upon earlier armed roots in Palestine; numbering about 50,000 members in permanent and reserve formations, and led by commanders closely identified with the political and ideological outlook of the quasi-government of the Yishuv, the Jewish Agency. The Haganah was a sort-of consensus organization championing socialist-Zionist tenants though during the Second World War supportive of the British war effort.\n\nThe Etzel: whose name is theHebrew acronym for \"National Military Organization\" (\'Irgun Zva\'i Leumi\' in Hebrew) and also known as the \"Irgun\". Founded as a splinter group from the Haganah in 1931, and guided by a \'Revisionist Zionist\' ideology - less socialist, more militant than the Hagana. Formed during a time of Arab revolt and attack against Jewish immigration to Palestine, the Irgun took more forceful actions (some deemed terrorist) against the Arabs than the Haganah and was declared an illegal armed organization by the British; in light of rising anti-Semitism in Europe the organization also took more aggressive steps to facilitating Jewish immigration to Palestine in contravention to the British Mandatory government\'s policies. In 1940 the Irgun declared a truce with the British and supported Britain\'s war effort against Germany. In 1941, the Irgun leader, David Raziel, was killed in Iraq while on a missionfor the British. In 1943, Menachem Begin became commander of the Etzel, and in February 1944, with the direction of the Second World War largely in favor of the allies, the Irgun resumed its struggle against British immigration policies and declared the Hebrew Revolt against the mandatory government.\n\nThe Lechi: whose name is the Hebrew acronym for \"Fighters for the Freedom of Israel\" (\'Lokhamei Kherut Israel\' in Hebrew) and also known as the \"Stern Group\" (by the Zionists) or the \"Stern Gang\" (by the British). A more radical splinter group formed from Etzel members in 1940, which opposed a truce with the British: the Lechi saw both Britain and Germany as enemies of the Jews and felt that the struggle for free immigration to Palestine (i.e. the saving of European Jews) should be the top priority of the Yishuv. Lechi was led by Avraham (\'Yair\') Stern until 1942, when he was killed duringhis arrest by the British. The Lechi continued to fight against the British (and the Arabs) throughout the period 1940 to 1948 in a manner which earned it the label of terrorism.\n\nThe Etzel and Lechi saw in Lord Moyne an anti-Semite and a key figure responsible for the turning away of Jewish refugee boats fleeing Nazi Europe (although according to one source Moyne may have in the meantime become convinced of the need for a Jewish homeland). Nevertheless, the Lechi assassinated him in November 1944, triggering a domestic and international uproar. The Jewish Agency, keen to demonstrate reliability and balance with the British, voted to take action against the apparent \"treachery\" of the breakaway groups seen to be endangering the realization of a future independent Jewish state. The period of November 1944 to July 1945 was called the Saison, a reference to European hunting season, and marked a period of intense military activity by the Haganah against the Etzel and Lechi and close cooperation with the British authorities. By March 1945 the British reported the receipt of information on 830 individuals of whom 337 were arrested. Many of those arrested from the Etzel and Lechi were imprisoned in Eritrea, Kenya and Sudan and became known as the \"African Exiles\". Britain, Israel, Palestine