In reaction to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_massacre" id="mwAUM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Passover massacre">Passover massacre</a> two days prior, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" id="mwAUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Israel">Israel</a> launches <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Defensive_Shield" id="mwAUU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Defensive Shield">Operation Defensive Shield</a> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence" id="mwAUY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Palestinian political violence">Palestinian militants</a>, its largest military operation in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank" id="mwAUc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> since the 1967 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" id="mwAUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a>.<sup about="#mwt209" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-39"}}' id="cite_ref-39" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_29#cite_note-39" id="mwAUk" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 39;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAUo">[39]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-39"><cite about="#mwt206" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBen-Eliezer2012">Ben-Eliezer, Uri (2012). <i id="mwCfM">Old Conflict, New War: Israel's Politics toward the Palestinians</i>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p.<span id="mwCfQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>124. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCfU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCfY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781137027573" id="mwCfc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781137027573"><bdi id="mwCfg">9781137027573</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt206" class="Z3988" id="mwCfk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Old+Conflict%2C+New+War%3A+Israel%27s+Politics+toward+the+Palestinians&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=124&amp;rft.pub=Palgrave+Macmillan&amp;rft.date=2012&amp;rft.isbn=9781137027573&amp;rft.aulast=Ben-Eliezer&amp;rft.aufirst=Uri&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+29"></span></span>