Kafr Kassem massacre could not be forgotten by statute of limitations

October 31, 2012 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 30/10/2012 – 12:41 PM ]
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NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Palestinians of occupied territories in 1948 and the people of Kafar Kassem city could not forget the massacre where they remained steadfast despite the Israeli attempts to expel them.

Fifty-six years have passed since the heinous massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the people of Kafr Kassem town, an Arab village located on the border of 1948-occupied Palestine with the West Bank.

On October 29, 1956, the Israeli army ordered that all Arab villages near the Jordanian border be placed under a wartime curfew. The order was given to border police to ‘shoot on sight’ any villagers violating the curfew before most of the Arabs from the villages could be notified. Any Arab on the streets was shot despite that many of them were at work at the time.

The Israeli decision resulted in 49 Arab civilians dead, including women, children and elderly people.

Kafar Kassem’s villagers and the Palestinians of 1948 occupied territories did not forget what Prime Minister Golda Meir said commenting on the brutal killing by Israeli occupation soldiers: “The old will die and the young will forget.”

However, the village’s residents did not forget the massacre and they mark its anniversary each year by not going to work, marching through the village’s streets holding the martyrs’ pictures and reading poems commemorating the martyrs of the massacre.

Legally based, the human rights organizations believe that the massacre is a war crime could not be subject to any statute of limitations, where calls are increasing for the prosecution of the occupation on the massacre as an ugly war crime carried out by the occupation forces.

At that time, the Israeli court had fined those who committed the massacre for only one penny in total disdain for humanity as a whole, the fact that could not be tolerated over time.

The people of the village of Kafr Kassem, along with all Palestinians of 1948 occupied territories mark each year the anniversary of the massacre of Kafr Kassem, which took place on 29 October,1956, killing 49 Palestinians, including women and children without mercy or pity.

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