The Kafr Qasim massacre (Arabic: مذبحة كفر قاسم, Hebrew: טבח כפר קאסם; 29 October 1956) was the killing by the Israel Border Police of 49 Palestinian civilians, including 19 men, 6 women and 23 children, in the Israeli Arab village of Kafr Qasim on the eve of the Sinai War. Israeli forces had imposed a curfew on the village in the morning of October 29th, and when a number of villagers who had been away and were unaware of the curfew returned, they were massacred.
The Kafr Qasim massacre (Arabic: مذبحة كفر قاسم, Hebrew: טבח כפר קאסם; 29 October 1956) was the killing by the Israel Border Police of 49 Palestinian civilians, including 19 men, 6 women and 23 children, in the Israeli Arab village of Kafr Qasim on the eve of the Sinai War. Israeli forces had imposed a curfew on the village in the morning of October 29th, and when a number of villagers who had been away and were unaware of the curfew returned, they were massacred.
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