The Qibya massacre began when Israeli troops, led by Ariel Sharon, launched a reprisal attack on the West Bank village of Qibya, under Jordan’s control at the time, during Operation Shoshana in October 1953, resulting in the deaths of sixty-nine Palestinian villagers, two thirds of which were women and children. […]
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Resources
- Qibya Massacre - wikipedia
- Giladi, Naeim. "Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and The Mossad Eliminated Jews." 4. Tempe, AZ: Dandelion Books, 1992
On the eve of the Suez War, Israeli Border Patrol orders a curfew without notifying Arab villagers and then opens fire on all curfew violators.
Kafr Qasim was an Arab village near the Jordanian border. From 1949 until 1966, Arab citizens were regarded by Israel as a hostile population and Arab populations were governed by the Israeli military. The Israeli government believed that Jordan would enter the Suez War on the side of Egypt, and on Octover 29, the first day of the Suez War, the Israeli military declared a curfew from 5pm until 6am, that would go into effect that very same day. Anyone violating the curfew was to be shot on sight.
The orders were alleged to have come from David Ben-Gurion himself.
“I don’t want sentimentality and I don’t want arrests, there will be no arrests,” declared IDF Colonel Yissachar Shadmi. Between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., in nine separate shooting incidents, Israeli troops killed nineteen men, six women, ten teenage boys (age 14–17), six girls (age 12–15), and seven young boys (age 8–13), who did not make it home before curfew. […]
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The 1967 Six-Day War, a pivotal event in Middle Eastern history, began on June 5, 1967, when Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt. This action marked Israel’s assertive entry into the conflict, driven by mounting tensions and threats from surrounding Arab nations, particularly Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Israel’s government, perceiving a looming threat from […]
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UN Security Council Resolution 242 calls for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967 and a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
In the 1967 war, Israel occupied Gaza Strip, which had been part of Egypt, and the West Bank, which had been part of Jordan, including East Jerusalem, which was subsequently annexed by Israel. The war brought about a second exodus of Palestinians, estimated at half a million. Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) formulated the principles […]
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