 Twelve days after the attack, the British authorities retaliated by imposing a curfew on Jewish communities and launching a security operation known as Operation Agatha.Despite the involvement of 20,000 British troops and the arrest of 3,000 Jews, no major damage was done to the Haganah.Two weeks later, on 29 June 1946, partly in response to the bridge bombings, the British launched Operation Agatha, whose main goal was to suppress the state of anarchy in Palestine by capturing the most militant Zionists.