Editing King David Hotel bombing (section)

===Motivation===
[[Image:Latrun detention camp.jpg|thumb|[[Zionist]] leaders arrested in [[Operation Agatha]]. Left to right: [[David Remez]], [[Moshe Sharett]], [[Yitzhak Gruenbaum]], [[Dov Yosef]], [[Shenkarsky]], [[David Hacohen]], [[Halperin]].]]

The Irgun committed the attack in response to [[Operation Agatha]], known in Israel as "Black Saturday".<ref name="special">[http://www.jposttravel.com/jerusalem_tours/Jerusalem_bt.html Jerusalem – British Beneath the surface] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424075840/http://www.jposttravel.com/jerusalem_tours/Jerusalem_bt.html |date=24 April 2009 }}. ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''. Retrieved 26 April 2009.</ref> British troops had searched the [[Jewish Agency for Israel|Jewish Agency]] on 29 June and confiscated large quantities of documents directly implicating the [[Haganah]] in the [[Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine|Jewish insurgency]] against Britain. The intelligence information was taken to the King David Hotel,<ref name="vir">[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/King_David.html The Bombing of the King David Hotel]. [[Jewish Virtual Library]]. Retrieved 26 April 2009.</ref> where it was initially kept in the offices of the Secretariat in the southern wing. The Irgun was determined to destroy that wing of the hotel in order to destroy the incriminating documents.