":::No, why should it have to be al-*? Arabic translation of ""Massacre of black Saturday"" can not be in Arabic as Al-""..."", so as Yom Kippur War which its translation has no Al-""..."". As I've said, there's no capitals in Arabic. The whole idea of Al-"".."" is that a single noun in arabic can not stand on its own. It's either prefixed with ""Al"" (al-magzara) or suffixed with another noun in the sentence (magzara Gaza). Our current case is the second case. And it's critical to know that those two cases are mutually exclusive. so it's illegal to have (al-magzara Gaza).    

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