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- This article details the Arab village in the West Bank, for the French hospital-based emergency medical service see SAMU.
| As-Samu |
| Arabic |
السموع |
| Government |
City |
| Also Spelled |
Es-Samu (officially)
Samua (unofficially)
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| Governorate |
Hebron |
| Population |
18,000 (2006) |
| Jurisdiction |
13,800 dunams (13.8 km²) |
| Head of Municipality |
Jamal Musa Abu Jadail |
as-Samu or es-Samu' is a town in the Hebron Governorate of the West Bank, south of the city of Hebron. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the town had a population of 18,000 in 2006.[1] It has been claimed that this was the Biblical town of Emmaus, but this is not universally accepted.
[edit] Operation Shredder
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On 12 November, 1966 an Israeli border patrol hit a mine, killing three soldiers and injuring six others. The Israelis believed the mine had been planted by Fatah militants from as-Samu. In response, Israel launched a full-scale military operation against the town, which resulted in the deaths of fifteen Jordanian soldiers and three Jordanian civilians; fifty-four other soldiers and ninety-six civilians were wounded. The commander of the Israeli paratroop battalion, Colonel Yoav Shaham, was killed and ten other Israeli soldiers were wounded.
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