What the records say
- When
- 13 Nov 1966
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 31.40° N, 35.07° E
- Description
- 1966 cross-border assault by the Israeli military on the village of Samu
1966 attack on Samu
1966 bombardment of the Palestinian city of Samu by Israeli forces
The 1966 attack on Samu, codenamed by Israel as Operation Shredder, was a large cross-border assault on 13 November 1966 by the Israeli military on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu. It was the largest Israeli military operation since the 1956 Suez Crisis and is considered to have been a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Samu Incident: Following a series of sabotage acts committed against Israeli targets, in particular the deaths of the three Israeli policemen killed by a land…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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