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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Kfar Etzion massacre Part of 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine Arab Legion Major Abdullah el Tell (far right) with Captain Hikmat Mihyar (far left) pose with two of the four Jewish survivors of the Fall of Gush Etzion. Around May 13, 1948. Location Kfar Etzion, Mandatory Palestine Date May ...
Kfar Etzion (Hebrew: כְּפַר עֶצְיוֹן, lit. Etzion Village) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank , organized as a religious kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank , established in 1927, depopulated in 1948 and re-established in 1967.
Alon Shvut, literally, "oak of return", is a reference to the return of the Jews expelled from Gush Etzion by the Jordanian Arab Legion in 1948 following the Kfar Etzion massacre. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The 700-year-old Kermes Oak ( Quercus calliprinos ) [ 10 ] is sacred to the Arabs with the name Ballutet el Yerzeh (oak of Yerzeh).
A fire tore through a wedding hall in Qaraqosh in northern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 100 people and injuring 150 others, prompting anger at the lack of safety measures at the venue.
Etzion (Hebrew: עציון, lit. of the tree), also spelled Ezion, can refer to places and topics relating to modern, ancient Israel and the West Bank: Ezion-Geber, a biblical Idumaean and Israelite port on the Red Sea; Kfar Etzion, a kibbutz established in the early 20th century south of Jerusalem; Gush Etzion, an eponymous bloc surrounding ...
Hundreds of people attended the funeral for two British-Israeli sisters killed in a shooting on Friday in the occupied West Bank.. Maia Dee, 20, and Rina Dee, 15, were buried following an ...
The residents of Kfar Etzion were massacred, and all other inhabitants of Gush Etzion, including the residents of Masu'ot Yitzhak, were captured and imprisoned in Jordan. [ 4 ] After their return from captivity in 1949, the Masu'ot Yitzhak pioneers established a new moshav of the same name near Shafir , a region inhabited by the Philistines in ...
Within moments, however, disaster struck when an inferno erupted that would leave nearly 100 dead in the northern Iraqi wedding hall. The around 250 panicked guests in the the Haitham Royal ...