Ein Ofarim killings

The Ein Ofarim killings was a terrorist attack by Palestinian Fedayeen, which occurred on Wednesday night, 12 September 1956.

Ein Ofarim killings
Part of Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency

The attack site
LocationEin Ofarim facility near Hatzeva in Southern Israel
DateSeptember 12, 1956
Attack type
Stabbing attack
Deaths3 Israelis
PerpetratorsPalestinian Fedayeen squad

The attack

On Wednesday night, 12 September 1956, a Palestinian Fedayeen squad infiltrated into Israel from Jordan. The militants reached the Ein Ofarim facility near the village Hatzeva, where they stabbed to death 3 Druze guardsmen.

Victims
  • Nawaf Abu-Ghazi (born 1931)[1]
  • Suleiman Hatoum (born 1931)[2]
  • Rafik Abdullah (born 1933)[3]

Aftermath

The tracks of the perpetrators led to the Jordanian border police station Arendall, which was used by the Jordanian National Guard and the camel mounted commando unit of the Arab Legion.

Israel made a decision to retaliate in response to the Ein Ofarim killings. The Arendall station was chosen as the destination for the counterattack. 13 Israeli paratroopers participated in a counterattack in which they targeted the fortified Arendall station. During the operation 16 Jordanian soldiers were killed. IDF casualties in the operation included one dead soldier and 12 wounded soldiers. The police station was destroyed.[4]

References
  4. Israeli, Raphael (2002). Jerusalem Divided: The Armistice Regime, 1947-1967. Routledge. p. 82. ISBN 9780714652665.
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