The Bahr el-Baqar primary school in the Egyptian village of Bahr el-Baqar was bombed by the Israeli Air Force on 8 April 1970. Of the 130 children who were attending the school, 46 were killed and ove
Ruins of the school after the bombing
Injured victims
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952
Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing
…deep penetration strategy which aimed to relieve the conflict along the line of contact on the Suez Canal by striking deep targets and to pressure Nasser into a truce. The series of deep penetration strikes also included the earlier bombing of a factory in Abu Zaabal, in which 80 civilian workers were…
Nasser in 1962
Nasser in 1931
Nasser's name circled in Al-Gihad
Nasser (center) with Ahmed Mazhar (left) in army, 1940