Yehud attack
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| Yehud attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency | |
  The attack site | |
| Location | 32°02′11″N 34°53′44″E / 32.03639°N 34.89556°E Yehud, Israel |
| Date | 12 October 1953 |
Attack type | Terrorist attack |
| Weapon | Hand grenade |
| Deaths | 3 civilians |
| Perpetrators | Palestinian Fedayeen squad |
The Yehud attack was an attack on a civilian house in the village of Yehud carried out by a Palestinian fedayeen squad on 12 October 1953. Three Israeli Jewish civilians, a mother and her young children, were killed in the attack.
On Monday, 12 October 1953, a Palestinian Fedayeen squad infiltrated into Israel from Jordan. The militants reached the Jewish village Yehud, located about 13 kilometers (8 mi) east of Tel Aviv, where they threw a 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, then under the control of Jordan, located about five miles north of 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]
