Yehud attack

Yehud attack
Attack site
Location	Yehud, Israel
Date	October 12, 1953
Attack type	guerrilla attack
Deaths	3 (2 children)
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 October 12, 1953. Three Jewish civilians were killed in the event.

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.

In the event a Jewish woman, Suzanne Kinyas, and her two children (3 year old girl and a 1 and a half year old boy) are killed.

The tracks of the perpetrators led to the Palestinian village of Rantis, then in the control of Jordan, located about five miles north of Qibya.

The attack shocked the Israeli public, both because of the fact that it was the first terror attack committed in the center of the Israel and because the victims of the attack were a woman and her infant children, who were murdered in their sleep.

Although the Commander of the Arab Legion (as the Jordanian Armed Forces were known at the time), Glubb Pasha, promised that Jordan would catch the perpetrators and bring them to justice, on the morning of October 13 a decision was made by the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and the Chief of Staff Mordechai Maklef, deputy chief of staff Moshe Dayan and acting defense minister Pinhas Lavon, of retaliation in response to the Yehud attack.

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