Adding to 48.
Today. US/Israel Embassy opening.
The establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel on 14 May 1948.
Wow.
We opened the embassy 70 years to the day.
48
48th aniversary of Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing.
was April 8,
Also day of huge Q drops re ME
When asked about the incident, Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan said: "Maybe the Egyptians put elementary students in a military base." Speaking about the incident, Egyptian commander Abdelatim Ramadan said: "Actually, two targets were hit by the Israelis. The first target was a group of military bases about 30 km. from the Suez Canal, which were targeted before, on the night of 18–19 December 1969. The second target was the Bahr El-Baqar primary school. [ … ] There comes a time to acknowledge an important fact in this area, that at those black days of Israeli bombing, the military targets were mixed with civilian targets. We can even say that in many cases the military targets were hiding behind civilian targets."[6]
Israel said it was under the impression that the school was an Egyptian military installation.
The botched attack is considered a contributing factor to Israel's decision to suspend the operation Priha deep strikes.[6]
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahr_El-Baqar_primary_school_bombing