Kafr Qasim massacre

Rubble on the streets of the West Bank city of Jenin, following a major Israeli aerial and ground offensive in Jenin, in one of Israel's biggest military operations in the Palestinian territory in years, July 4, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
Israel’s war on refugee camps seeks to correct its mistake of 1948
Refugee camps have long been a nexus of Israeli oppression and Palestinian resistance. The Jenin invasion reveals a new stage in that battle.
By Ameer Makhoul August 1, 2023
Portraits of the Arab boys who were beaten, tortured, and shot to death before being returned to their families. (Courtesy of Al-Jalil)
The gruesome murder of five Arab boys refuses to disappear — 55 years on
Beaten, tortured, and shot to death: this is the story of five Arab boys who met a gruesome fate at the hands of Israel’s security forces in September 1961. Ben Gurion’s government refused to tell the truth of what really happened. By Makbula Nassar Last week marked 60 years since the Kafr Qasim massacre. Although the event…
By +972 Magazine November 5, 2016
Israeli soldiers seen in Kafr Qasim in 1948. (GPO)
My grandmother was murdered in Kafr Qasim, now these are my demands
I think about the events that led up to the murder of my grandmother and 48 other women, children, and men, along with dozens of survivors who carry their trauma until today. Will we ever see true justice? By Reem Amer Everyone speaks of the Kafr Qasim massacre of 1956 as if it were an isolated…
By +972 Magazine October 29, 2016
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An Israeli soldier aims a rifle loaded with rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes in Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, November 29, 2013. This day's clashes followed several days of confrontations after the killing of three Palestinian militants by Israeli forces in Yatta. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
The only way to ensure Palestinian lives matter
The IDF’s decision not to charge Abed Fatah al-Sharif’s killer with murder should not surprise anybody — it is entirely consistent with the impunity Israeli security personnel have enjoyed for decades when it comes to killing Palestinians. The Israeli army’s Military Advocate General on Thursday announced that it will not seek murder charges against a…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man March 31, 2016
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