Qibya massacre , also known as the Qibya incident , occurred during " Operation Shoshana " , a reprisal operation that occurred in October 1953 when Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank . At least sixty-nine Palestinian villagers were killed , two-thirds of them women and children . Forty-five houses , a school , and a mosque were destroyed . The attack followed cross-border raids from the Jordanian occupied West Bank and Israeli reprisals , in particular , the attack on Qibya was a response to the Yehud attack in which an Israeli woman and her two children were murdered in their home
Yehud attack
Yehud attack
Qibya massacre