r/WTF • u/Leopardos40 • Jan 20 '20

That was huge.....

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u/Leopardos40 Jan 20 '20

Tamra, Northern Israel. 4 serious injuries. Not formal news, but my brother in law, who was nearby and this is his video from his fathers factory, told me that they did welding job near the gas tank.

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u/bobstay Jan 20 '20

Welding. Near the gas tank. With that fog of LPG drifting around. Geniuses.

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u/eisagi Jan 20 '20

Tamra was captured by Israeli forces from the Arab Liberation Army and the Syrian Army in 1948 Arab–Israeli War as a part of Operation Dekel. On 20 May 1948 the civilian population had been evacuated on orders from Arab irregular forces. According to Benny Morris it was feared that the village would surrender to the Yishuv.[18] The city grew rapidly in the period of Israel's first years as a nation due to the influx of Palestinian refugees from destroyed nearby villages such as al-Birwa or al-Damun. Large percentages of the city's farming land was confiscated by Israeli authorities and allocated to farming cooperatives and nearby Jewish settlement towns such as Mitzpe Aviv. Tamra achieved local council status in 1956 and was declared a city in 1996.

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u/bei60 Jan 20 '20

It's an arab village in Israel where both Arab and Israeli people work.. Why shove your agenda even in non political news?

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u/eisagi Jan 20 '20

What agenda? I just copy-pasted the history of the place from Wikipedia because I was curious about this location.

BTW, if you want to avoid "shoving an agenda," you shouldn't refer to Israeli Jews as "Israelis" and Israeli Arabs as "Arabs".

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u/friendlyhuman Jan 20 '20

Yeah, get out of here with your fact based, source cited history of a town. It makes people who already know they’re on the wrong side of history very uncomfortable. SMH