An Israel Cabinet committee investigating the tragic slaying of 43 Arab villagers at Kafr Kassem in 1956, on the eve of the Sinal jump-off, today reported, in effect, that the area commander, Col. Issachar Shadmi, must bear the blame for the drastic orders to shoot all curfew violators.
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