Detroit Free Press · 30 October 1988
CP-1988-086
At least 18 hurt in Arab strike
David Alexander
Transcribed from the clipping
“The soldiers killed at least 43 Arabs. Two officers involved in the incident received lengthy prison terms from a military court, but their sentences were reduced by a military high…
Within three years they were released. The Kafr Kassem incident has become a symbol for Palestinians and Israeli Arabs who believe they cannot receive equal justice and protection.”
Context added by this archive
The end of the legal story, reported in Detroit thirty-two years after the killings: seven to seventeen year sentences, and everybody out within three. The same paragraph says what the village has come to stand for.
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"At least 18 hurt in Arab strike," Detroit Free Press, 30 October 1988. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-086. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-086
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