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Jewish/Israeli Massacres and Terrorism
Part 1: Massacres

King David Hotel in Jerusalem (July 22, 1946) 

What happened: 91 people killed by explosives planted by the Irgun: 28 Britons, 41 Arabs, 17 Jews and five persons of other nationalities. Of the dead, 21 were British government officials, 13 were soldiers, and three were police officers. There were also 49 employees of either the hotel or the British government and five members of the public. 

At Tira (December 11, 1947)

What happened: "5 Arabs killed and 6 injured at At Tira village in attack by Jews." 

Village outside Haifa (December 12, 1947)

What happened: "12 Arabs lost their lives when Jews attacked a village outside Haifa."

Village near Tel Aviv (December 14, 1947)

What happened: "Arab village near Tel-Aviv attacked by Jews in steel helmets wearing Khaki uniforms. 18 Arabs killed and 100 injured."

Al-Khisas (December 18, 1947)  

What happened: 10 civilians killed by the Haganah, most within their own houses.
Haifa (December 30, 1947)

Jerusalem (December 30, 1947) 

What happened: The Irgun threw a bomb from a speeding taxi in Jerusalem, killing 11 Arabs and two Britons.

Balad Esh-Sheikh (December 31-January 1 night, 1947) 

What happened: 14 (perhaps as many as 60) civilians killed by the Haganah, most within their own houses.

Jaffa (January 4, 1948)  

What happened: 15-30 people killed, 100 wounded, from a truck bomb planted by the Stern Gang in the middle of the city.

Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem (January 4-5 night, 1948) 

What happened: 10-25 killed by the bombing of the hotel by Haganah.

Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem (January 7, 1948) 

What happened: "A Jewish driver used a British Army car to get past [an] Arab barricade at Jaffa Gate. The bomb he threw rolled on to a cafe near the gate. 17 Arabs dead so far."

Unknown Location (January 16, 1948) 

What happened: "Jews today blew up 3 Arab buildings. In the first 8 children between the ages of 18 months and 12 years died, one child is still under the debris and one woman died. In the second, 5 Arabs died and 5 are still buried."

Tireh (February 10, 1948)

What happened: "12 Arabs returning to Tireh village near Tulkarm were stopped by a large party of Jews who fired at them. Some sought refuge in a house but were followed and fired at. 7 Arabs killed, 5 injured."

Bus from Safad (February 12, 1948)

What happened: "Armed Jews attacked an Arab bus from Safad. Explosion in bus kills 55." Arabs and injures

Sa'sa' (February 14-15 night, 1948)

What happened: 60 civilians killed, most within their own houses.

Qisarya (February 15-20?, 1948) 

What happened: "Another case [of a massacre] happened in Caesarea. In February 1948 the Fourth Battalion of the Palmach forces, under the command of Josef Tabenkin, conquered Caesarea. According to Milstein, all those who did not escape from the village were killed. Milstein gleaned testimonies about this fact from fighters who participated in the conquest."
Haifa (February 20, 1948)

Khantara-Haifa Train (February 27, 1948)  

What happened: "Khantara-Haifa train near Rehovoth by Jews. 27 British soldiers killed and 36 wounded."

Haifa (March 3, 1948) 

What happened: "Stern Gang destroyed Salameh Building in Haifa with explosive vehicle. 11 Arabs killed, 27 wounded."

al-Husayniyya (March 12 and 16-17, 1948) 

What happened: Palmach twice raided the village of al-Husayniyya, killing 15 and wounding 20 in the first attack on March 12, and killing "more than 30" in the second onslaught on the evening of March 16-17.

Train near Benjamina (March 31, 1948) 

What happened: "Jews blew up train near Benjamina killing 24 Arabs and injuring 61."

al-Sarafand (April 5, 1948) 

What happened: "Jews attacked the Arab village of Sarafand. 16 Arabs were killed and 12 wounded. Most Arabs were killed when a house was mortared." 

Deir Yassin (April 9-11, 1948)

Websites:

1. Coming to Terms with Deir Yassin (PEACE Middle East Dialog Group)
2. Dayr Yasin (Palestine Remembered)
3. Deir Yassin: Arab & Jewish Tragedy in Palestine (1998 novel by Ray Hanania)
4. Deir Yassin Committee
5. Deir Yassin Remembered
6. Open Directory: Deir Yassin
7. Survivors' Testimonies (alnakba.org)
   Articles:

1. "Jews May Not Want to Look at This" (Robert Fisk; The Independent; April 7, 2002)
2. "The 1948 Massacre at Deir Yassin Revisited" (Matthew Hogan; Historian; Winter, 2001)
3. "Deir Yasin: Still Remembered After 51 Years" (Pat and Samir Twair; Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; April/May 1999)
4. "On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Deir Yassin: A Jewish Perspective on Memory, Justice and Reconciliation" (Marc H. Ellis; Ariga; April 1998)
5. "Reinterpreting Deir Yassin" (Sharif Kanaana; Birzeit University; April, 1998)
6. "Remembering Deir Yassin (James Zoghby; Al-Ahram Weekly; April 1998)
7. "Deir Yassin Remembered" (Daniel A. McGowan; The Link; volume 29, issue 4 (September-October, 1996)) 
8. Tel Litvinsky (April 16, 1948)

What happened: "Jews attack the former British Army camp at Tel Litvinsky and kill 90 Arabs there."

Tiberias (April 19, 1948)

What happened: "14 Arabs were killed in Tiberias in a house blown up by Jews."

Ayn al-Zaytun and perhaps other nearby villages (May 1-4, 1948)
What happened: Apparently five separate killings of various magnitudes took place over three or four days: (1) Barrel bomb and grenade attacks by the Palmach killed and injured many of the villagers as the militia was attacking the village. (2) "Several" villagers in Ayn al-Zaytun were shot, and 37 young men were taken prisoner, when the Palmach conquered the village on May 1. (3) On May 3 or 4, "some 70" Arab prisoners, probably including these 37, were massacred with their hands still tied. (4) "23 Arabs" taken from Ayn al-Zaytun and shot. (5) 30 Arab prisoners who tried to escape were shot. "It is possible that they were killed chained. Next morning a platoon was sent to bury them." The source for the final two atrocities does not date them.

Netiva Ben-Yehuda recounted the slaughter in a book: Miba'ad La'avutot (Through the Binding Ropes), Jerusalem: Domino Press, 1985, pp. 243-248. According to Morris, "Ben-Yehuda graphically describes the prelude to, and aftermath of, the slaughter of the 70, which she did not witness."

See also Nazzal, The Palestinian Exodus, p. 107, which states (without identifying his source) that "The Zionists separated the men from their families, beat and humiliated a few villagers, crucified one of the villagers on a tree, and took at random thirty-seven boys as hostages, who were never heard of again."

Abu Shuska (May 13-14 night?, 1948)
What happened: "But Yitzhaki kept the testimonies. The first case he presents happened in Tel Gezer [i.e., Abu Shuska]. A soldier of the Kiryati Brigade (...) testifies that his colleagues got hold of ten Arab men and two Arab women, a young one and an old one. All the men were murdered. The young woman was raped and her destiny was unknown. The old woman was murdered. Yitzhaki tells that he discovered the testimony in a specific folder containing testimonies from Guard Units (Kheil Mishmar) in the IDF archives. Later he also obtained an oral testimony about this event from a person who wished to remain anonymous."

Al-Bassa (May 14?, 1948)
What happened: Several killings of villagers were recounted by survivors. 

Acre (May 18, 1948)

What happened: After capturing Acre on May 18, Israeli troops killed at least 100 Arab civilians.

Possible caution: I have not seen this massacre noted anywhere except in Palumbo's work. While the timing is consistent with massacres in the same area, additional evidence would be useful.

al-Kabri (May 20, 1948)

What happened: Two groups of al-Kabri villagers killed; in one case, "several" youngsters were machine-gunned (some survived); in the other, the Israelis shot (and apparently killed) six refugees from the village whom they had seized trying to escape.

al-Tantura (May 22-23, 1948) 

What happened: More than 200 villagers, mostly unarmed young men, shot by the Israeli army's Alexandroni Brigade. 

Lydda (July 11-12, 1948)

What happened: Several hundred civilians killed by Israeli troops, including 80 machine-gunned inside the Dahmash Mosque.

If the following accounts are all true, there were several stages to the massacre at Lydda. Many died on the evening of July 11 during Moshe Dayan's famous lightening strike into the town. The town surrendered, and things were then quiet until just before noon the next day, when two or three Arab Legion armored cars rolled into town. Two (or perhaps as many as four) Israeli solders were killed, inciting a spasm of Israeli violence that killed 25020-50 Arabs were slaughtered after cleaning up the mosque. Note that this account and Palumbo's assertion that the bodies of the first group killed at the mosque "lay decomposing for ten days in the July heat" cannot both be true. Arabs, including the (first?) massacre at the mosque. Finally, according to Guy Erlich's article, some

After all this, the inhabitants of Lydda and neighboring Ramle were expelled in the infamous "Lydda death march," as a result of which several hundred more probably died. See Chapter VIII, "The Lydda Death March" (pp. 126-138), in Palumbo, The Palestinian Catastrophe.

See also Morris, Birth, pp. 205-206, who writes that "In the confusion, dozens of unarmed detainees in the mosque and church compounds in the centre of the town were shot and killed." He also suggests that to call the events on July 12 a "revolt" is unwarranted. As is his tendency, Morris attempts to mitigate Israeli moral responsibility by asserting that the occupying Israeli solders "felt threatened, vulnerable and angry" during the July 12 phase of the massacre.

Elot (end of July, 1948)

What happened: "At the end of July 1948, after conducting a search in the village of Elot near Nazareth, the Israeli army arrested forty-six young men and took them away. On August 3 several of these men were found dead in the hills near the village. On the same day fourteen of those arrested were killed in an olive grove, in full view of the villagers."

Arab Suqrir (August 29, 1948)

What happened: 10 villagers "who tried to escape" killed by Israeli army.

Hula, Lebanon (sometime during October 24-29, 1948)

What happened: 50 villagers machine-gunned to death by Israeli army.

" described in Yirmiya's letter was Shmuel Lahis. Although he was later convicted of the murders in a military court, he received (via an appeal) only a one-year sentence, and, due to an amnesty that he received, didn't even serve that long in jail. Subsequently, he became a lawyer and was admitted to the Israeli bar upon a finding that his conduct "was not an act which carried with it a stigma." He later became Secretary General of the Jewish Agency.

al-Dawayima (October 29, 1948)

What happened: 100-200 villagers killed by Israeli army.

Jish (October 29?, 1948) 

What happened: "A woman and her baby were killed. Another 11 [were killed?]"

Eilabun (October 30, 1948) 

What happened: 13 villagers--at least 12 of them "youngsters"--killed by Israeli soldiers after they had taken the village.

Majd al-Kurum (October 30, 1948) 

What happened: In one account, the Israelis picked 12 men from the village at random and killed them in front of the other villagers. In another account, nine villagers, including two women, were killed. 

Safsaf (October 30, 1948) 

What happened: According to a Palestinian eyewitness, 70 young men were blindfolded and shot to death, one after another, by Israeli troops in front of the assembled villagers. The Israeli army report acknowledges 14 deaths.

Saliha (October 30?, 1948) 

What happened: "94 ... were blown up with a house."Sa'sa' (October 30?, 1948)

al-Bi'na and Deir al-Assad (October 31, 1948) 

What happened: An unknown number killed by Israeli soldiers.

See also Morris, Birth, p. 229-230, in which a refugee from al-Bi'na is quoted as saying that Israeli troops shot two villagers. In Benny Morris, "Revisiting the Palestinian Exodus of 1948," in Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim (eds.), The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 54, Morris includes Deir al-Assad (which he spells Dayr al-Assad) in a list of villages at which massacres took place, but as there's no index entry in Birth for this village, I can't readily determine whether he mentions this massacre in that earlier book.

Nahf (end of October, 1948?)

What happened: Apparent massacre.

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda (November 2, 1948)

What happened: 14 "liquidated," according to the Israeli military's report.
Beit Jala, West Bank (January 6, 1952)

Jerusalem (April 22, 1953) 

What happened: "Israeli forces fire at unarmed civilians in open space in front of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Ten killed."

Bureji Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip (August 28, 1953) 

What happened: "One of the latest and gravest incidents has been the attack upon several houses and huts in the Arab refugee camp of Bureij on the night of 28 August. That camp, organized and administered by UNRWA, is situated about 2 kilometers west of the demarcation line. Bombs were thrown through the windows of huts in which refugees were sleeping and, as they fled, they were attacked by small arms and automatic weapons. The casualties were 20 killed, 27 seriously wounded, 35 less seriously wounded. The Mixed Armistice Commission, in an emergency meeting, adopted by a majority vote a resolution according to which the attack was made by a group of armed Israelis. A likely explanation is that is was a ruthless reprisal raid."

Qibya, Jordan (October 14-15 night, 1953) 

What happened: The Israeli army's now-infamous Unit 101, led by Ariel Sharon, killed about 70 civilians in a raid on this village.

Nahalin, Jordan (March 28-29 night, 1954) 

What happened: "An Israeli watchman wsa killed near Kissalon, west of Jerusalem, but the case was not referred to the Commission for investigation. Two nights later the Israelis struck in force at Nahhalin Village in Jordan, killing nine and wounding nineteen. It was a small Qibya--demolition bombs, incendiary bombs, automatic weapons, and grenades."

Gaza City (April 5, 1956) 

What happened: Israelis shelled Gaza City, killing 56 and wounding 193 

Kafr Kassem (October 29, 1956) 

What happened: Israeli border policemen under orders to shoot to kill curfew-breakers fired on villagers in this Israeli Arab town, returning from their fields, who were unaware that Israel had imposed a curfew. (In fact, they could not have been aware, as the village mukhtar was informed at 4:30 pm that the curfew was to begin half an hour later.) The number of dead has been estimated at between 47 and 51 men, women and children. Eight of the policemen were tried and convicted, despite their claims that they were merely following orders. However, their sentences were later reduced, and none served more than three and a half years in jail.

Massacre of Egyptian Soldiers and Civilians during Suez War (October 29 to November 7, 1956) 

What happened: An estimated 273 Egyptian solders and civilians executed.

Egyptian POWS (Legal Research and Resource Center for Human Rights) An important collection of resources.
"As Evidence Mounts, Toll of Israeli Prisoner of War Massacres Grows" (Katherine M. Metres; WRMEA; February/March 1996)
Historians: Israeli troops killed many Egyptian POWs (AP; 2000?)
"Israelis Admit Massacre" (Ohad Gozani; The Daily Telegraph; August 16, 1995)
"A Soldier's Confession: Admitting to killing Egyptian POWs in 1956, a veteran stirs a nation's conscience" (Lisa Beyer; Time; August 28, 1995 (volume 146, no. 9)
They Shoot POWs (translation by Israel Shahak)

Khan Yunis (November 3, 1956)

What happened: A "large number" of civilians killed during Israel's occupation of this town and an UNRWA refugee camp nearby during the Suez war.

Rafah Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip (November 12, 1956) 

What happened: Over 100 refugees killed during the Israeli Army's occupation of this camp.

Nuqeib, Syria (March 16-17, 1962) 

What happened: "Israeli artillery and aircraft attack unarmed village of Nuqeib in Syria, killing at least 30."

Samu, Jordan (November 13, 1966) 

What happened: "A large Israeli force, including tanks and armoured cars, attacks the village of Samu in Jordan, destroying 125 houses, a school and a clinic and 15 houses in another village, killing 18 and wounding 54."

Massacre of Egyptian Soldiers during Six-Day War (June 5-11, 1967) 

What happened: As many as two thousand Egyptian soldiers, either helpless or already captured, shot by Israeli troops.

Egyptian POWS (Legal Research and Resource Center for Human Rights)"As Evidence Mounts, Toll of Israeli Prisoner of War Massacres Grows" (Katherine M. Metres; WRMEA; February/March 1996)

Historians: Israeli troops killed many Egyptian POWs (AP; 2000?)
"A Soldier's Confession: Admitting to killing Egyptian POWs in 1956, a veteran stirs a nation's conscience" (Lisa Beyer; Time; August 28, 1995 (volume 146, no. 9)
Two articles
They Shoot POWs (translation by Israel Shahak)

Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty (June 8, 1967)

What happened: On June 8, 1967, during the Six Day War, Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy intelligence-gathering ship off the coast of Gaza, killing 34 men and wounding 171. The weather was clear; the ship was in international waters; the attack, which lasted two hours, was preceded by several hours of Israeli reconnaissance. The Israelis claimed the attack was a case of misidentification, and President Johnson hushed the whole episode up. The surviving crewmembers know the truth and are active to this day.

Rafah Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip (June? 1967)

What happened: Twenty-three refugees shot by Israeli soldiers and buried in a mass grave.

Killing of Indian UNEF Members (June 1967) 

What happened: "The Indian Government handed an aide memoire to the Israel Consul General in Delhi .... The aide memoire says 'An Israeli tank in Gaza deliberately fired on an Indian UNEF [UN Emergency Force] vehicle from five yards, and then deliberately squashed the driver to death knowing that he was a member of the United Nations. The Israeli forces,' the aide memoire adds, 'on five occasions deliberately attacked Indian UNEF staff killing eleven and wounding twenty-four.'" 

Killing of Refugees and "Infiltrators" (after the 1967 war) 

What happened: An untold number of Palestinian refugees--men, women, and children--were shot without warning as they tried to cross the Jordan River into the West Bank. Those who weren't killed immediately were finished off in the morning.

Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camps, Lebanon (September 16-18, 1982; part of "Operation Peace for Galilee") 

What happened: After surrounding these two refugee camps, which are adjacent to one another in west Beirut, during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the Israeli army allowed 150 members of the Lebanese Phalangist militia to enter the camps and conduct "mopping up" operations. Ariel Sharon was Israel's Minister of Defense. Two thousand human beings are estimated to have been slaughtered during the next 40 hours.

Qana, Lebanon (April 18, 1996) 

What happened: Israel shelled the U.N. refugee camp in Qana, Lebanon, killing over 100 civilians.

Jenin Camp, West Bank (April 3-15, 2002)

Although much of the world has apparently decided that Israeli atrocities at Jenin did not amount to a "massacre," Human Rights Watch has documented at least 52 Palestinian deaths, including at least 21 civilians.

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