1966 bombardment of the Palestinian city of Samu by Israeli forces
Operation Shredder
Part of the Reprisal Operations
Date
13 November 1966 (1966-11-13)
Location
Es Samu, Jordanian West Bank
Result
Build-up to Six-Day War
Belligerents
Israel
Jordan
Commanders and leaders
Rafael Eitan
Yoav Shaham †
King Hussein
Bahjat al-Muhaisen
Asad Ghanma
Strength
400 troops
40 half-tracks
10 tanks
4 fighter jets
100 troops
20 convoy vehicles
8 fighter jets
Casualties and losses
1 killed
10 wounded
1 fighter jet damaged
16 killed
54 wounded
15 vehicles destroyed
1 fighter jet destroyed
3 civilians killed, 96 wounded
The Samu incident or Battle of Samu was a large cross-border assault on 13 November 1966 by Israeli military on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu in response to an al-Fatah land mine attack two days earlier near the West Bank border, which killed three Israeli soldiers on a border patrol. It purportedly originated from Jordanian territory. It was the largest Israeli military operation since the 1956 Suez Crisis and is considered to have been a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967.[1] Since 1965 Jordan had an active campaign to curb Fatah sabotage activities.[2] The handling of the incident was widely criticised in Israeli political and military circles, and the United Nations responded with United Nations Security Council Resolution 228, censuring Israel for "violating the United Nations Charter and the General Armistice Agreement."
^Ben-Yehûdā, Ḥemdā and Sandler, Shmuel (2002). The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed: Fifty Years of Interstate and Ethnic Crises. SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-5245-X, p. 34.
^Moshe Shemesh (2008) Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism and the Six Day War. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-84519-188-7 (h/c). pp 110–114
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