The Beit Nehemia raid (14 June 1965) was a Fatah operation to raid the moshav of Beit Nehemia on the border of Israel and the West Bank, then occupied by Jordan. The Fatah terrorists killed four civilians and two Israel Defense Forces soldiers before the IDF killed Quraish Ahmed and his seven comrades.
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On 14 June 1965, Quraish Ahmed led a squad of Fatah commandos from the West Bank to raid the Israeli settlement of Beit Nehemia on the border of the West Bank. Two lorries arrived at the settlement, and eight Palestinians disembarked from the trucks to attack the settlement. Four Israeli civilians were killed by the Fatah terrorists, but the Israel Defense Forces were called in and their soldiers succeeded in tracking down all of the terrorists and killing them. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in the attack, but Ahmed and the seven other terrorists were killed.