Tunisia and The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Tunis commemorated the 35th anniversary of the Israeli massacre on Hammam-Shat in Tunis on October 1, 1985. The raid was carried out by Israel’s occupation air forces killing 68 people and wounding 100 Palestinians and Tunisians.
Palestine ambassador to Tunisia Heil El Fahoum,Hammam-Lif governor Ali Hamrouni,Hammam Chott delegate Elyes Mhedhebi as well as the municipality president Nizar Makri and the Palestinian community in Tunisia paid tribute to the victims in Hammam-Chat cemetery and laid a wreath of flowers on the memorial.
On Tuesday, October 1, 1985, a unit of Israeli air force warfare aircraft propelled an air raid on Hamamnt Chat. The suburb was the main headquarters of several offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)facilities were destroyed in less than 10 minutes of the air raid.
The raids were designed to target Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, though he was not present at the time.
The raid was denounced by the security council as a flagrant breach of the United Nations Charter and estimated that Tunisia had the right to appropriate reparations.
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