Shafir shooting attack

When

11 Apr 1956

Kind

Shooting

Killed

4

Coordinates

31.99° N, 34.85° E

Description

1956 attack on Israeli civilians by Palestinian Arab fedayeen

Injured

5

1956 attack on Israeli civilians by Palestinian Arab fedayeen

The Shafrir synagogue shooting was a terrorist attack which was carried out by Palestinian militants on 11 April 1956. Three Palestinian militants who crossed into Israel from Egypt attacked the study hall of a synagogue while it was full of children and teenagers, in the farming community of Kfar Chabad (Shafrir). Six people were killed.

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