Ramat Rachel shooting attack

When

23 Sep 1956

Kind

Terrorist attack

Killed

5

Coordinates

31.74° N, 35.22° E

Wounded

16

1956 massacre of Israeli civilians by Jordanian 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 Israeli archaeologists were killed in the event and 16 others were wounded.

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