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مجزرة رفح
Exact day12 November 1956
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 12 November 1956, after the fighting in Gaza had ended, Israeli forces screening the men of Rafah refugee camp killed and wounded a number of refugees; UNRWA received lists naming 111 dead.
UNRWA’s Director reported that on 12 November 1956 a serious incident occurred in the agency’s camp at Rafah, home to more than 32,000 refugees: the Israeli authorities and UNRWA’s other sources agreed that a number of refugees were killed and wounded by the occupying forces during a screening of the camp’s men. He received lists naming 111 people allegedly killed, 103 of them refugees. The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question puts the number killed at 110.123
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe Kafr Qasim massacre, The Khan Yunis massacre
Evidence
United Nations · paragraph: 24
Original-language quotation · enOn 12 November, a serious incident occurred in the Agency's camp at Rafah.Link to this citationUnited Nations · paragraph: 27
Original-language quotation · enlists of names of persons allegedly killed at Rafah on 12 November, numbering 111, of whom 103 were refugees, seven local residents, and one an EgyptianLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Alex Winder)
Original-language quotation · enAfter fighting had ended, Israeli forces killed another 110 Palestinians in Rafah, on the Gaza–Egypt border.Link to this citationdocument · United Nations
The special report of the Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency to the General Assembly (A/3212/Add.1), as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Alex Winder, “The 1956 War”, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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