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مجزرة كفر قاسم
Exact day29 October 1956
Kafr Qasim
On 29 October 1956 Israeli border police shot dead forty-nine residents of Kafr Qasim, children among them, as they came home unaware of a curfew imposed that evening. The villagers were citizens of Israel.
Linked context in the legacy record
At 4:30 in the afternoon a border police sergeant told the village’s mayor that a curfew would begin at 5 p.m. Villagers returning from work could not have known it was already in force. Border policemen, on the orders of Israeli military commanders, made them get out of their vehicles and shot them at close range: forty-nine residents of Kafr Qasim, children among them, were killed in one hour.
Link to this chapterPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Adel Manna)
Editorial paraphrase · enThe curfew was announced at 4:30 p.m. for 5 p.m.; border policemen, on military orders, killed forty-nine residents, including children, in one hour.
Link to this citationBy 1960 all the soldiers convicted had been released, their sentences reduced or pardoned; the brigade commander was reprimanded and fined a single pruta. In 1976, the year of Land Day, a memorial was built in the village.
Link to this chapterPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Adel Manna)
Editorial paraphrase · enAll soldiers were free by 1960; the commander was fined a single pruta; a memorial was built in 1976.
Link to this citationSources & evidence
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Account by Adel Manna, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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photograph · Wikimedia Commons
The photograph shown with this event: The memorial in Kafr Qasim.
Public domain: released by its author, Avishai Teicher, on Wikimedia Commons.
29 October 1956 · day
10-29 · occurrence
Anniversary of the documented date.
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