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On October 29, 1956, Israeli border police shot 47 villagers in Kafr Qasim for coming home after a curfew most of them never heard about. The lie is what the government told the country afterward. The record from the court files and the Akevot Institute: 1) On Nov 12 the government announced that some villagers had been hurt by Border Police fire. Forty-seven were dead, 49 counting Tira and Taybeh. A secret commission had already concluded on Nov 6 that the Border Police should be charged. 2) A total press blackout was ordered within hours by Ben-Gurion’s adjutant, and Dayan ordered it continued. Two hospitals refused the bodies. The dead were buried without their families and the village was sealed. 3) A Communist MK’s mention of the massacre was struck from the Knesset record on Nov 13. The first full statement to the Knesset came on Dec 12, seven weeks after the killings. 4) The soldiers said the villagers ran, so they fired. The court rejected that. Eight of eleven defendants were convicted of murder. The brigade commander who gave the curfew order, Issachar Shadmi, was fined ten prutot. 5) A secret wartime plan called Operation Mole covered curfews, seizure of property and the movement of Arab populations. Battalion commander Shmuel Malinki received the file on Oct 25. A company commander testified that for Kafr Qasim the plan would have moved the whole village to Tira. 6) A border policeman testified that his commander said it was desirable to have a number of casualties, because deaths on the first day would make the rest of the curfew easier. In the transcripts released in 2022, Shadmi said killing a few people as intimidation could encourage movement eastward, and that it was no secret Israel encouraged its Arabs to leave. 7( The text of Mole is still redacted. In 2018 the state argued that opening the trial transcripts would harm national security. A court opened them in 2022, after a five-year fight by Adam Raz and Akevot. Reporting on them contradicted the public story. The plan that officers cited at trial is still sealed. The people they murdered are still dead. Part of the lies series: tinyurl.com/liesisrael

This appeared in a major Israeli news feed. Not just justifying, but celebrating the death of a literal child. Needless to say, he is not a terrorist. The IDF claims he "intended to throw stones." Not even that he threw them. This is, of course, just an excuse to kill. One the Israeli people are happy to lap up.