List Of Attacks Against Israeli Civilians Before 1967
This article deals with acts of political violence against Israeli civilians between the establishment of the 1949 Armistice Agreements and the Six Day War in 1967.
Prior to Israel's capture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the Six Day War in 1967 these areas, originally destined for a Palestinian state, were under Egyptian (in the case of the Gaza Strip) and Jordanian (in the case of the West Bank) occupation. Palestinians crossing the border for a variety of reasons. This resulted in confrontations with Israeli military and border guards, from 1949 to 1956 about 500 Israelis died, half of them combatants, and between 2,700 and 5,000 Palestinians. Simultaneously, a variety of Israeli military attacks targeted Palestinian fedayeen, Egyptian and Jordanian military forces in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jordan, in response to the Arab offensive. A number of fedayeen attacks deliberately targeted civilians, causing many deaths and serious injuries and disrupting daily life. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the following events as terrorist attacks, although most media reports of that time refer to them as 'fedayeen' attacks.
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