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Kefar Kassem Massacre Poster Ad Very Rare 29.10.56 - The Kefar Kassem Massacre was commited on the 29.10.1956 the first day of Operation Kadesh, during hich 43 residents of Kefar Kassem were shot to death. Following an investigation of the Kefar Kassem massacre there are the findings and circumstances: A Border Guard Battalion under Major Shmul Melinki was ordered to uphold a curfew in the ”Triangle” towns sector adjacent to the Jordanian border. The brigade commander Isacar Shadmi decided on his own initiative to lower the hour of the curfew from 2100 to 1700, however the order was not given to the mukhtars of the villages. Only at 1630, half an hour before the enforcement of the curfew the message was handed over to the village mukhtars. The inhabitants working outside their villages had known nothing of the new curfew hour and began returning home with darkness, well after entering the curfew.  Commander Shmul Melinki gave strict orders to the Border Guard soldiers! Shoot any Arab outside his home. The company commander in Kefar Kassem carried out the order given to him, his soldiers arrested the villagers returning from work on foot or by car. 43 villagers were shot to death.  Poster measurements: 50X35 cm. The poster corners are tip-clipped.