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This is a '''list of massacres committed during the [[1948 Arab-Israeli war]]''', after the state of Israel was established, [[May 15]] [[1948]]. It is restricted to incidents in which at least 10 civilians or non-combat military personnel were deliberately killed in actions that were politically or racially motivated. This list does not include unlawful deaths due to criminal activity. It includes all casualties that resulted from the initial attack on civilians or non-combat military personnel.{{Fact|date=January 2008}}
This is a '''list of massacres committed during the [[1948 Arab-Israeli war]]''', after the state of Israel was established, [[May 15]] [[1948]]. It is restricted to incidents in which at least 10 Arabs were allegedly killed in actions that were politically or racially motivated. This list does not include unlawful deaths due to criminal activity. It includes all casualties that resulted from the initial attack on civilians or non-combat military personnel.{{Fact|date=January 2008}}


Note: The designation "responsible party" below refers to those believed to be the principle instigators of the violence{{Fact|date=December 2007}}. Where culpability is disputed or ambiguous, the sources cited support the chosen designation.
Note: The designation "responsible party" below refers to those believed to be the principle instigators of the violence{{Fact|date=December 2007}}. Where culpability is disputed or ambiguous, the sources cited support the chosen designation.

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This is a list of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, after the state of Israel was established, May 15 1948. It is restricted to incidents in which at least 10 Arabs were allegedly killed in actions that were politically or racially motivated. This list does not include unlawful deaths due to criminal activity. It includes all casualties that resulted from the initial attack on civilians or non-combat military personnel.[citation needed]

Note: The designation "responsible party" below refers to those believed to be the principle instigators of the violence[citation needed]. Where culpability is disputed or ambiguous, the sources cited support the chosen designation.

Name Date Responsible party Casualties/Notes
Acre May 18 1948 Haganah 100 Arabs killed[1]
Al-Tantura May 22-23, 1948 Alexandroni Brigade of IDF 70 - 200 Arabs killed[2]
Lydda-Ramleh 11-12 July 1948 IDF 250 - 335 Arabs killed[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Suqrir 29 August 1948 Givati Brigade of the IDF 10 Arabs killed[11]
al-Dawayima October 29 1948 IDF 80 - 100 Arabs killed
Safsaf October 29 1948 IDF 50 - 70 Arabs killed
Saliha October 30 1948 IDF 70 - 80 Arabs killed[6]
Eilabun October 30 1948 Golani Brigade of the IDF 13 Arabs killed[12]
Majd al-Krum October 30 1948 IDF 12 Arabs killed[13]
Hula October 1948 Carmeli Brigade of the IDF 35 - 58 Arabs killed
Arab al-Mawasi November 2 1948 IDF 14 Arabs killed

See also

References

  1. ^ Robin Miller citing Michael Palumbo's The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland, London: Faber and Faber, 1987, p. 119, (original relies on reports filed by Lieutenant Petite, a U.N. observer from France, stored at UNA (United Nations Archives) 13/3.3.1, box 13.
  2. ^ Robert Fearn. Amoral America. p. 424. ISBN 1553831578.
  3. ^ Yoav Gelber, Palestine 1948, Appendix II"Certainly, [Deir Yassin] was not the bloodiest massacre of the war. The killing of ... 250 Arabs during the occupation of Lydda and its aftermath were more extensive by far."
  4. ^ Neff, Donald (July/August 1994). "Expulsion of the Palestinians—Lydda and Ramleh in 1948". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Retrieved 2007-09-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)"Quite a few refugees died—from exhaustion, dehydration and disease—along the roads eastwards, from Lydda and Ramleh, before reaching temporary rest near and in Ramallah. Nimr Khatib put the death toll among the Lydda refugees during the trek eastward at 335"
  5. ^ Tolan, Sandy (July 102006). "Déjà Vu in Gaza". tomdispatch.com. Retrieved 2007-09-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)'Yigal Allon, writing in the journal of the Palmach in July 1948, described the military advantages of the mass expulsions: Driving out the citizens of Ramla and Lydda would alleviate the pressure from an armed and hostile population, while clogging the roads toward the Arab Legion front, seriously hampering any effort to retake the towns. Allon also described in detail the psychological operations whereby local kibbutz leaders would "whisper in the ears of some Arabs, that a great Jewish reinforcement has arrived," and that "they should suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while there is still time ... The tactic reached its goal completely.'
  6. ^ a b James L. Gelvin (2005). The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War. Cambridge University Press. p. 137. ISBN 0521852897.
  7. ^ Rantisi, Audeh (July - August 2000). "The Lydda Death March". Americans for Middle East Understanding. Retrieved 2007-09-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Lydda". Leicestershire Holy Land Appeal. Retrieved 2007-09-12."Israeli soldiers moved into Lydda, ... on 11th July, 1948. 19,000 Palestinians lived in Lydda but its population had been swollen by refugees from Jaffa and from outlying villages to about 40,000. Palestinians taken prisoner were executed in the Dahmash Mosque. The people were forced to leave the town, usually without most of their belongings. Some who were slow to hand over valuables to the Israeli soldiers were killed. This was during a very hot summer. Temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius. The refugees were short of water. It was three days before they reached safety near Ramallah. By then at least 350 had died of thirst or exhaustion."
  9. ^ Glubb, John (1957). A Soldier with the Arabs. London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton. pp. page 162. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help) "Nobody will ever know how many children died"
  10. ^ Gilad, Zerubavel (1956). Sefer Hapalmah (The Book of the Palmah), Volume 2. Tel Aviv, Israel: Kibbutz Meuhad Press. pp. page 718. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  11. ^ Morris, Benny (2004). "Chapter 4: The third wave". The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. page 215. ISBN 0-521-81120-1; ISBN 0-521-00967-7 (pbk.). {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  12. ^ Robin Miller citing Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 229 & Michael Palumbo's The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland, London: Faber and Faber, 1987, p. 164.
  13. ^ Robin Miller citing Michael Palumbo’s The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland, London: Faber and Faber, 1987, p. 171 & Nafez Nazzal’s The Palestinian Exodus from Galilee 1948, Beirut: The Institute for Palestinian Studies, 1978 pp. 90-93
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