Editing Qibya massacre (section)

==International reaction==
An emergency meeting of the [[Jordan–Israel Mixed Armistice Commission|Mixed Armistice Commission]] (MAC) was held in the afternoon of 15 October and a resolution condemning the regular Israel army for its attack on Qibya, as a breach of article III, paragraph 2,62/ of the Israel-Jordan General Armistice Agreement was adopted by a majority vote.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

The UN Security Council subsequently adopted [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 100|Resolution 100]] on 27 October 1953. On 24 November, the [[UN Security Council]] passed [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 101|Resolution 101]] and expressed the ''"strongest possible censure of this action."''{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

The attack was universally condemned by the international community. The U.S. State Department issued a bulletin on 18 October 1953, expressing its ''"deepest sympathy for the families of those who lost their lives"'' in Qibya as well as the conviction that those responsible ''"should be brought to account and that effective measures should be taken to prevent such incidents in the future."''<ref>[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mid009.htm The Department of State issued a statement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809211518/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mid009.htm |date=9 August 2007 }} on 18 October 1953 (Department of State Bulletin, 26 October 1953, p. 552).</ref> The State Department described the raid as "shocking", and used the occasion to confirm publicly that economic aid to Israel had been previously suspended.<ref>''New York Times'', 19 October 1953, 1:5, cited in, Stephen Green, ''Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel'', p.87</ref>  The aid, as Israel had been informed on 18 September, had been "deferred" until Israel saw fit to cooperate with the United Nations in the Demilitarized Zone, in relation to its ongoing water diversion work near [[Daughters of Jacob Bridge|Bnot Ya'akov Bridge]];<ref>Stephen Green, ''Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel''. p.80</ref> that site had been chosen as the original location for the intake of Israel's [[National Water Carrier]], but it would be moved downstream to the [[Sea of Galilee]] at Eshed Kinrot, following this US pressure.<ref name="JSCR">Sosland, Jeffrey (2007) ''Cooperating Rivals: The Riparian Politics of the Jordan River Basin'' SUNY Press, {{ISBN|0-7914-7201-9}} p 70</ref>