Ramat Rachel shooting attack

Ramat Rachel shooting attack
Part of Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency
class=notpageimage| The attack site
Native name	פיגוע הירי ברמת רחל
Location	Near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, Israel
Coordinates	31°44′23″N 35°13′01″E / 31.73972°N 35.21694°E / 31.73972; 35.21694
Date	23 September 1956; 67 years ago (1956-09-23)
Attack type	Mass shooting
Weapons	Submachine guns, Rifles
Deaths	4 Israeli civilians
Injured	16 Israeli civilians
Assailants	Jordanian Legion soldiers

The Ramat Rachel shooting attack was a mass shooting carried out by Jordanian Legion soldiers, on 23 September 1956, who opened fire across the Israel/Jordan border on a group of Israeli archaeologists working inside Israeli sovereign territory near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Four Jewish archaeologists were killed in the event and 16 others were wounded.