Ramat Rachel shooting attack

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Ramat Rachel shooting attack
Part of Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency
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The attack site
Native nameפיגוע הירי ברמת רחל
LocationNear Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, Israel
Coordinates 31°44′23″N35°13′01″E / 31.73972°N 35.21694°E / 31.73972; 35.21694
Date23 September 1956;67 years ago (1956-09-23)
Attack type
 Mass shooting
Weapons Submachine guns, Rifles
Deaths4 Israeli civilians
Injured16 Israeli civilians
Assailants Jordanian Legion soldiers

The Ramat Rachel shooting attack was a mass shooting carried out by Jordanian Legion soldiers, on 23 September 1956, who opened fire across the Israel/Jordan border on a group of Israeli archaeologists working inside Israeli sovereign territory near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Four Jewish archaeologists were killed in the event and 16 others were wounded.

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The attack

On Sunday, 23 September 1956, a tour was held for a group of Israeli archaeologists at the archaeological excavations near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. During the tour machine-gun fire was opened on the archaeologists from Jordanian positions at Mar Elias Monastery near the Jerusalem-Bethlehem road. The fire killed four people, including the archaeologist Jacob Pinkerfeld, and 16 others were wounded. Another person who was seriously injured in the shooting died eventually of his wounds five years later.[ citation needed ][ dubious – discuss ]

Official reactions

Aftermath

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References

  1. 1 2 Israel Rejects Jordan's Claim Madman Killed 3, Meriden Journal, 24 September 1956, accessed 16 August 2016 Archived 8 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine
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