Ma'ale Akrabim massacre
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The Ma'ale Akrabim massacre, known in English as the Scorpions' Pass Massacre, was an attack on an Israeli passenger bus, carried out on 17 March 1954, in the middle of the day. Eleven passengers were
The bus after the incident
Memorial plate in Ma'ale Akrabim
Reconstructed model of the civilian bus that was attacked by the Arab gang at Scorpion Pass.
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan/Israel Mixed Armistice Commission was the United Nations organisation of observers which dealt with complaints from Jordan and Israel to maintain the fragile cease fire alo
Ma'ale Akrabim massacre
…infiltrators from Jordan. The Israeli death toll for the first 9 months of 1953 was 32. Over roughly the same time (November 1950 – November 1953), the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan/Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (HJK/IMAC) condemned Israeli military reprisal actions 44 times and claimed it suffered 629 killed and injured from Israeli incursions. Similar attacks…
1954 issued United Nations special ID & pass to commission head Lt. Col. Charles F. Brewster