Word: kalkilya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less was said of coming to terms with the Arabs. Following the new tough policy, Israel struck again and again. By this summer a new-pattern of incidents emerged on the Jordan border, with Israel answering the smallest incursions with large-scale reprisals. Most notable example: an attack on Kalkilya in which Israelis killed 48 Arabs in return for the murder of two Israelis. Israel claimed that over the years many more Israelis than Arabs had been killed in border incidents. But hatreds on both sides could not be measured or atoned for statistically...
...evening last week the men of the Jordan border town of Kalkilya sat in cafes sipping coffee and playing backgammon. From Israel 400 yards to the west came the clatter of heavy vehicles and the flicker of headlights. A column of trucks lurched past the loungers. "Don't worry," an officer called out. "You won't get hurt. We're after the army." A moment later the street shook as the Israelis opened their attack on the big police fort on the other side of town. It was another Israeli reprisal raid, the fourth in a month...
...beleaguered frontier guards. The Israeli ambushers killed 13 Jordanians in one truck. But they could not break off action until they brought up artillery, and heavy guns were firing over the border along a ten-mile front. Windows shook in Tel Aviv, 20 minutes away to the west. At Kalkilya shells rained both on the fort and the town, killing a nursing infant, his brother, an old woman. By 4:20 the Israelis finally pulled out. This time when they crossed the border they did not cheer or sing their mambo tunes...