It involved an Israeli incursion into Beit Jala, a town in the Jordanian-annexed West Bank (now a part of the Palestinian territories), on 6 January 1952, after which three houses were rigged with explosives and subsequently blown up; the attack killed seven civilian residents.
[1] On 4 December 1951, a Jewish girl known as Leah Feistinger, who was walking home from a bus stop in the neighbourhood of Bayit VeGan in Jerusalem, was raped, mutilated, and murdered by an Arab group led by Mansi;[1] her body was found discarded in a cave approximately a mile away from the border between Israel and the Jordanian-annexed West Bank, inside Israeli territory.
[4] After the attack, the perpetrators left leaflets at the site, which were written in Arabic and read as follows: On 4/12/1951 some persons from among the inhabitants of Beit Jala killed a Jewish girl in the neighbourhood of Bayit VeGan, after committing against her an unpardonable crime.
Let those who can, heed this warning.في ٤/١٢/١٩٥١ قتل اشخاص من بلدة (بيت جالا) فتاة يهودية بالقرب من (بايت وغان) بعد ان اقترفوا حقها جريمة لا تغتفر إن ما قمنا به الآن هو جزاء هذه الجريمة الشنعاء ولن نسكت للمجرمين ففي جعبتنا دائماً سهاماً لهم
فليعتبر المعتبرون Major Hutchison investigated the Jordanian complaint against Israel concerning the latter's violation of the 1949 Armistice Agreements at Beit Jala, on behalf of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO).
[4] Israel denied any involvement and J. E. Chadwick, a diplomat at the British embassy in Tel Aviv thought that it had been the work of Israeli vigilantes.