Israel has suffered the murder of more…
August 1953 CE
Israel has suffered the murder of more than four hundred and fifty civilians in attacks by fedayeen terrorists sponsored by neighboring Jordan and Egypt in the past three years.
IDF tactics have been ineffectual in countering this onslaught, which has terrorized every part of Israel.
Sharon's Unit 101 is ordered to hit the fedayeen, the army bases that support them, and the villages that house them.
In August 1953, from fifteen to fifty refugees are killed during an attack by Unit 101 on the refugee camp of El-Bureig, south of Gaza. (Major-General Vagn Bennike, the UN commander, reports, "bombs were thrown" by Mr. Sharon's men "through the windows of huts in which the refugees were sleeping and, as they fled, they were attacked by small arms and automatic weapons".)