From 1949 till late 1966 the Israeli government decided to consider
all its Palestinians citizens a “hostile population “. All major Arab
population centers were governed by military administrations and divided
into four districts.
Seven Arab villages, including Kafr Qasim, all along the green line,
were considered as high infiltration threats. The villages were
patrolled regularly by border police (Magav) under the command of
Israeli army brigade commander Colonel Issachar Shadmi. Those villages,
containing some 40, 000 villagers, were called the Central District.
October 29, 1956
On the day of the massacre, the Israeli army decided to place all
seven villages along the green line under a curfew called the War Time
Curfew, from 5 in the evening until 6 the following morning. Israeli
soldiers were instructed to shoot and kill any villager violating the
curfew.
Even though the border police troops were given the order by their
commander at 3:30 in the afternoon, they only informed the mayor of Kafr
Qasim about an hour later, leaving a window of 30 minutes for the 400
villagers working in the fields or outside the village to come back
home.
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