This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.The Menarsha synagogue attack took place on 5 August 1949 in the Jewish quarter of Damascus, Syria.
[4] On Friday 5 August 1949, Shabbat eve, several attackers threw hand grenades into the Menarsha Synagogue in Damascus that killed 12 Jews, 8 of them children, and injured about 30.
[4] Israel formally protested to the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine and notified the Syrian government that the attack could impede the ongoing Lausanne Conference talks.
[4] Syrian authorities attributed the attack to an underground movement called the Arab Redemption Suicide Phalange,[10] or to Communists.
The bombing occurring during the Lausanne Conference, when Israel and its four opponents during the 1948 war -- Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt -- reached a crucial stage during final peace talks.