Arab al-Mawasi massacre
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On November 2, 1948, two squads of Israeli Defence Forces soldiers captured an encampment of bedouins at 'Arab al-Mawasi in the eastern Galilee. While some soldiers guarded the Arabs, others went to a nearby hilltop where the headless bodies of two Israeli soldiers were found.[1]. In retaliation, the Arabs' dwellings were destroyed and 14 adult males were killed. Unusually, the Arab oral history and the IDF archives agree on the number of dead.
[edit] Sources
- Morris, Benny (2001). Revisiting the Palestinian Exodus of 1948. In The War for Palestine, Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 57 (citing Israel Defence Force Archives 1096\1949\\65). ISBN 0-521-79476-5
- Kalidi, Walid (ed.) (1992), All That Remains. Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992. ISBN 0-88728-224-5
[edit] References
- ^ Note to editors. There is confusion here. According to Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited 2004 p.479, 499 n.107, one head was taken to Eilabun, the other to Maghar at least a month earlier than this incident. Thus whichever of the two sources here (Morris, Khalidi) asserts that the same two heads were discovered together here must have got the facts wrong. Please check. One point of congruence is the number 14 in both massacres
