Givati monument in south defaced
Memorial site honoring 27 of the brigade's combatants sprayed with slanderous graffiti in Arabic. Local council vows to restore site as soon as possible
A Givati Brigade memorial located between Kibbuz Negba and Moshav Shafir in southern Israel was desecrated recently, as a passerby discovered Arabic graffiti was sprayed on its stones, Sunday.
Twenty-seven of Givati's soldiers were killed during the battle of Mishlat Ibdis, fought in the area as part of the War of Independence.
Arabic graffiti on monument (Photo: Moshe Rom)
A monument was erected in their honor, and the location has become a tourist attraction, as well as a memoriam.
Shafir residents were stunned to learn that the memorial was defaced with red and black slanderous graffiti. Moshe Rom, of the moshav's tourism office, said that he has already begun working on having the site restored.
"I've already called the director of the Givati House in neighboring Metzudat Yoav in order to have the monument restored as soon as possible. We are keeping this place for posterity, so the next generations will know how we fought, and what we lost so we can be here," he said.
