# Yehud attack

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The **Yehud attack** was an attack on a civilian house in the village of [Yehud](/source/Yehud,_Israel) carried out by a [Palestinian fedayeen](/source/Palestinian_fedayeen) squad on 12 October 1953. Three [Israeli Jewish](/source/Israeli_Jews) [civilians](/source/Civilians), a mother and her young children, were killed in the attack.

## The attack

On Monday, 12 October 1953, a Palestinian Fedayeen squad infiltrated into Israel from [Jordan](/source/Jordan). The militants reached the Jewish village Yehud, located about 13 kilometers (8 mi) east of [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv), where they threw a [grenade](/source/Grenade) into a civilian house.[1]

A Jewish woman, Suzanne Kinyas, and her two children (a 3-year-old girl and a 1 1⁄2-year-old boy) were killed.[1]

The tracks of the perpetrators led to the Palestinian village of [Rantis](/source/Rantis), then under the control of [Jordan](/source/Jordan), located about five miles north of [Qibya](/source/Qibya).[2]

The attack shocked the Israeli public, both because it was the first terror attack committed in the center of Israel and because the victims of the attack were a woman and her young children, who were killed in their sleep.[2]

## Israeli retaliation

Main article: [Qibya massacre](/source/Qibya_massacre)

Although the commander of the [Arab Legion](/source/Arab_Legion) (as the [Jordanian Armed Forces](/source/Jordanian_Armed_Forces) were known at the time), [Glubb Pasha](/source/Glubb_Pasha), promised that Jordan would catch the perpetrators and bring them to justice, on the morning of 13 October a decision was made by the [Israeli Prime Minister](/source/Israeli_Prime_Minister) [David Ben-Gurion](/source/David_Ben-Gurion), and the [Chief of Staff](/source/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_Israel_Defense_Forces) [Mordechai Maklef](/source/Mordechai_Maklef), deputy chief of staff [Moshe Dayan](/source/Moshe_Dayan) and acting [defense minister](/source/Defense_Minister_of_Israel) [Pinhas Lavon](/source/Pinhas_Lavon), of retaliation in response to the Yehud attack.[3] About 130 [IDF](/source/Israel_Defense_Forces) soldiers participated in the [reprisal](/source/Retribution_operations) codenamed *Operation Shoshana* (after the three-year-old girl killed in the Yehud attack), which was commanded by [Ariel Sharon](/source/Ariel_Sharon). The IDF force arrived at the village of [Qibya](/source/Qibya), threw grenades and fired through the windows and doors of the houses. Then blew up 45 houses, a [school](/source/School), and a [mosque](/source/Mosque). About 60 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed.[4]

The act was condemned by the [U.S. State Department](/source/U.S._State_Department), the [UN Security Council](/source/UN_Security_Council), and by Jewish communities worldwide.[3]

## References

1. Byman, Daniel (2011). [*A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism*](https://archive.org/details/highpricetriumph0000byma). Oxford University Press. p. [22](https://archive.org/details/highpricetriumph0000byma/page/22). Retrieved 14 October 2014.

1. Becker, Avihai (8 January 2003). ["They Were Three"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142642/https://www.haaretz.com/1.4966048). *[Haaretz](/source/Haaretz)*. Archived from [the original](https://www.haaretz.com/1.4966048) on 12 June 2018.

1. Avi Shlaim (2001). '**The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World'**. [W. W. Norton & Company](/source/W._W._Norton_%26_Company). p. 91. ISBN 0-393-32112-6. [Avi Shlaim](/source/Avi_Shlaim) writes: "The Qibya massacre unleashed against Israel a storm of international protest of unprecedented severity in the country's short history."

1. Benny Morris, *Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation and the Countdown to the Suez War*, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 258-9.

## External links

- [Jordan lets Israelis track killer of 3](https://www.nytimes.com/1953/10/14/archives/jordan-lets-israelis-track-killers-of-3.html) - Published on [The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) on 14 October 1953

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