Egypt: Remembering Bahr El-Baqar Incident · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

Forty one years ago, on April 8, 1970, and during the War of Attrition, the Israeli Air Force raided a primary school in the Egyptian village of Bahr el-Baqar, south of Port Said, in the eastern province of Sharqia. Bahr El-Baqar School – a three-classroom school that housed 150 students – was destroyed, about 30 of its students died, over 50 were severely wounded, and many were left with disabilities. And after all those years, Egyptians still remember the massacre.
Zeinobia tweeted a post she wrote a year ago about the massacre.
Users on Twitter shared videos of television documentaries and songs made about the massacre which Ahmed Shalaby quoted and Monica Ibrahim commented on.
Some others decided to compare the Bahr El-Baqar incident to the ongoing air strikes on Gaza. Radwa El-Shami wrote the following note at the end of her most recent blog post.
And finally Sharif added: