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Kibya ruins.jpg
The photograph shown with this event: Qibya after the raid, 15 October 1953.
Public domain in Jordan as a photograph published more than twenty-five years ago (Wikimedia Commons: PD-Jordan).
Event · Land & rights14–15 October 1953
The Qibya massacre
مجزرة قبية
Date qualified14–15 October 1953
Qibya
On 14–15 October 1953 Israeli armed forces attacked Qibya, a West Bank village then under Jordanian rule, in a retaliatory raid that the UN Security Council censured in the strongest terms.
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The raid and the censure
In its resolution 101 of 24 November 1953 the Security Council found that the retaliatory action at Qibya taken by armed forces of Israel on 14–15 October 1953 violated the cease-fire provisions of its resolution 54 (1948) and was inconsistent with the General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Jordan and with the Charter. It expressed the strongest censure of that action, and called on Israel to take effective measures to prevent all such actions in future.
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- Security Council resolution 101 (1953) of 24 November 1953 ↗
United Nations · paragraph: 1-2
Editorial paraphrase · enPart A: the retaliatory action at Qibya by armed forces of Israel on 14–15 October 1953 violated the cease-fire and the Armistice Agreement; the Council expresses the strongest censure.
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Security Council resolution 101 (1953) of 24 November 1953
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