Kafr Qasim

Kafr Qasim is a hill-top town with an Israeli Arab population. It is placed approximately 20 km east of Tel Aviv, on the Israeli side of the Green Line keeping apart Israel and the West Bank, in the southern portion of the "Little Triangle" of Arab-Israeli cities and villages. In 2017 its population become 22,743. The town changed into the web site of the Kafr Qasim massacre, in which the Israel Border Police killed forty nine civilians on October 29, 1956. On February 12, 2008, Israeli Minister of the Interior Meir Sheetrit d Kafr Qasim a city in a ceremony held on the town.

The metropolis's place turned into populated in historical times, primarily based on remains from the Middle Paleolithic duration discovered inside the Qesem Cave. Cisterns, a winepress and terraced fields have additionally been documented, together with remains from the Byzantine era. The curfew ended, a platoon of Israeli border police Magav who were sent to the place encountered and killed forty nine villagers returning to Kafr Qasim from their work in the fields. Though the village head had been knowledgeable a half of an hour earlier than the navy curfew began, he knowledgeable the Israeli commander that the fellahin and shepherds could not be notified in time that the curfew were imposed. The incident have become known as the Kafr Qasim bloodbath.