Ras Sedr massacre

1967 CE.

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Ras Sedr massacre (Hebrew: טבח ראס סודר; Arabic: مجزرة رأس سدر) was a mass murder of at least 52 Egyptian prisoners of war that took place immediately after a paratrooper unit of the Israel Defense Forces conquered Ras Sedr in the Sinai Peninsula on 8 June 1967 during the Six-Day War.

Text from the Wikipedia article Ras Sedr massacre, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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