Gajre ambush

Gajre ambush
	Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
Date	5 June 2001
Location	Between Gajre and Šipkovica, Macedonia
Result	NLA victory
Belligerents
National Liberation Army	Macedonia
Commanders and leaders
	Isak Rufati †
Units involved
Unknown	Macedonian army
Strength
Unknown	11 soldiers
Casualties and losses
None	5 killed; 6 wounded

Ethnic Albanian rebels of the National Liberation Army killed five soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia on 5 June 2001 near Gajre, a village in the Šar Mountains, North Macedonia. It represents one of the heaviest death tolls for the government forces in a single incident during the Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia.^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b "Потсетник за загинатите бранители кај Гајре". ALFA TV (in Macedonian). 5 June 2013. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
^ "Убиени уште петмина војници на АРМ". VEST (in Macedonian). 7 June 2001. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2022.