According to hundreds of Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, and Western sources, both written and oral, Zionist forces committed dozens of massacres against Palestinians during what was called the 1948 “war”. Some of these are well-known and have been published while others are not. Below are some of the details of the most notorious massacres committed at the hands of Haganah and its armed wing, the Palmach, as well as the Stern Gang, the Irgun and other Zionist mobs:
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The Jerusalem Massacre - 1/10/1937 A member of the Irgun Zionist organisation detonated a bomb in the vegetablemarket near the Damascus (Nablus) Gate in Jerusalem killing dozens of Arabcivilians and wounding many others.
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The Haifa Massacre - 6/3/1937Terrorists from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist gangs bombed a market in Haifa kill-ing 18 Arab civilians and wounding 38.
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The Haifa Massacre - 6/7/1938Terrorists from the Irgun Zionist gang placed two car bombs in a Haifa marketkilling 21 Arab civilians and wounding 52.
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The Jerusalem Massacre - 13/7/193810 Arabs killed and 31 wounded in a massive explosion in the Arab vegetablemarket in the Old City.
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The Jerusalem Massacre - 15/7/1938 A member of the Irgun Zionist gang threw a hand grenade in front of a mosque in Jerusalem as worshippers were walking out. 10 were killed and 30were wounded.
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The Haifa Massacre - 25/7/1938 A car bomb was planted by the Irgun Zionist gang in an Arab market in Haifawhich killed 35 Arab civilians and wounded 70.
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The Haifa Massacre - 26/7/1938 A member of Irgun threw a hand grenade in a Haifa market killing 47 Arabs.
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The Jerusalem Massacre - 26/8/1938 A car bomb placed by the Irgun gang exploded in a Jerusalem Arab marketkilling 34 Arabs and wounding 35.
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The Haifa Massacre - 27/3/1939The Irgun Zionist gang detonated two bombs in Haifa killing 27 Arabs andwounding 39.
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The Balad Al-Shaykh Massacre - 12/6/1939The Haganah Zionist gang raided the city of Balad Al-Shaykh capturing 5 residents who they then killed. The city of Balad Al-Shaykh is a Palestinian Arabcity located east of Haifa.
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The Haifa Massacre - 19/6/1939Zionist raiders threw a hand grenade in a Haifa market killing 9 Arabs andwounding 4.
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The Haifa Massacre - 20/6/194878 Arabs were killed and 24 wounded by a bomb placed inside a vegetablebox in a Haifa vegetable market. The Irgun and Lehi gangs were responsiblefor this.
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The Al Abbasiyah Massacre - 13/12/1947 A group of Irgun members disguised as British soldiers attacked the village
of Al Abbasiyah and opened re on its residents sitting outside a village café.
They also bombed a number of their homes and planted several time bombs.Moreover, British soldiers surrounded the village and allowed the killers to es-cape from the northern side of the village. They killed 7 and severely wounded7 others 2 of whom died later including a 5 year old child.
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The Al-Khasas Massacre - 18/12/19473 Zionists from the “Maayan Baruch” kibbutz attacked and shot 5 Arab work-ers on their way to work. During the attack, one of the Zionists was stabbedand killed prompting the commander of the Palmach third battalion, MosheKelman, to ordere a retaliatory operation to burn the homes and kill the menin Al-Khasas. The commander’s report notes that 12 were killed, all of whomwere women and children.
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The Jerusalem Massacre - 29/12/1947Irgun members threw a barrel full of explosives near Bab al-Amud in Jerusa-lem which resulted in the death of 14 Arabs and the wounding 27 others.
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The Jerusalem Massacre - 30/12/1947The Irgun gang threw a bomb from a speeding car killing 11 Arabs.
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The Balad Al-Shaykh Massacre - 31/12/1947
A joint force of the rst Palmach battalion and a brigade led by Haim Avinoam
attacked the Balad Al-Shaykh village killing 60 civilians, according to Zionistsources. Those killed included children, women and the elderly, and dozens of homes were destroyed.
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Al-Sheikh Break Massacre - 31/12/1947Zionist terrorist groups raided the village of Al-Sheikh Break, killing 40.
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The Jaffa Massacre - 4/1/1948The Zionist Stern Gang threw a bomb in a crowded plaza in Jaffa, killing 15people and wounding 98.
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The Al-Saraya Massacre - 4/1/1948On January 4, 1948 the Irgun Zionist terrorist gang placed a car full of ex-plosives near Al-Saraya in Jaffa which destroyed all that surrounded it, killed 30 Arabs and wounded several others. A fairly large number of the victims wereJaffa’s intellectual youth.
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The Semiramis Massacre - 5/1/1948The Haganah bombed the Semiramis Hotel located in the Katamon neighbour-hood in Jerusalem. The hotel collapsed on its guests, all of whom were Arab,killing 19 and wounding over 20.
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The Jerusalem Massacre - 7/1/1948The Irgun gang threw a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, killing 18 Arab civil-ians and wounding 40 others.
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The Al-Saraya Al-Arabeya Massacre - 8/1/1948Zionist terrorist gangs used a car bomb to kill 70 Arab civilians and wound doz-ens.
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The Ramla Massacre - 15/1/1948Palmach soldiers and the Haganah bombed one of the Arab neighbourhoods inRamla.
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The Yazur Massacre - 22/1/1948Yigael Yadin, a Haganah commander, ordered the Palmach commander, Yigal Allon, to carry out an operation against the village of Yazur. A group from the Pal-mach attacked a bus near Yazur, wounding the bus driver a several Arab passen-gers. On the same day, another group attacked another bus killing and wound-ing several people. These attacks by the Palmach and Givati Brigades on Arabvillages and cars continued for 20 consecutive days while other units detonatedbombs near village homes.Then the Haganah authorities decided to attack the village and bomb the ice
factory along with two buildings around it. A Haganah group opened re on the icefactory in the village, while other groups opened re and used hand grenades on
the homes in the village. Moreover, an engineering group bombed the Askandronibuilding, the ice factory, and killed 15 people.
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The Haifa Massacre - 28/12/1948Zionist terrorists from the Al-Hadar neighbourhood, located at the top of Al-Abbas
Street in Haifa, rolled down a barrel lled with explosives destroying homes and
killing 20 Arab citizens, as well as wounding 50 others.
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The Tabra Tulkarem Massacre - 10/2/1948 A group of Zionist terrorists stopped Arab citizens going back to the village of
Tabra Tulkarem and opened re on them, killing 7 and wounding 5 others.
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The Sa’sa’ Massacre - 14/2/1948 A Palmach force raided the village of Sa’sa’ and destroyed 20 inhabited homes,killing 60 villagers, most of whom were women and children.
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The Jerusalem Massacre - 20/2/1948
The Stern Gang stole a British army vehicle, lled it with explosives, and placed it
in front of the Al Salam building in Jerusalem. The explosion killed 14 Arabs and wounded 26.
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The Haifa Masacre - 20/2/1948
Zionist raiders attacked the Arab neighbourhoods in Haifa with mortar re killing 6
Arabs and wounding 36 others.
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The Al-Husayniyya Massacre - 13/3/1948The Haganah raided the village of Al-Husayniyya, destroying homes with explo-sives and killing over 30 families.
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The Abu Kabir Massacre - 31/3/1948Groups from Haganah carried out an armed attack on the Abu Kabir neighbour-
hood in Jaffa. They destroyed homes and killed residents eeing their homes to
seek help.
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The Cairo Train Massacre, Haifa - 31/3/1948The Stern Gang planted bombs on a Cairo-Haifa train which killed 40 people andwound 60 others on explosion.
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Ramla Massacre - 1/3/1948Zionist terrorists planned and carried out this massacre in March 1948 in a mar-ket in the city of Ramla, killing 25 Arab civilians.
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The Deir Yassin Massacre - 9/4/1948 A group of 300 Zionist terrorists attacked the village of Deir Yassin, accompaniedby tanks. The men were lined up and shot; 254 men, women and children werekilled.
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The Qalunya Massacre - 14/4/1948 A force from the Palmach Zionist terrorist group raided Qalunya, bombed severalhomes and killed 14 of its residents.
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The Nasir al-Din Massacre - 13/4/1948 A group consisting of forces from the Irgun and Stern Gang in disguise raided the
village of Nasir al-Din opening red on its inhabitants and killing 50 people. On
the previous day, both Nasir al-Din and Al-Shaykh Qadumi were attacked and 12were killed.
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The Tiberias Massacre - 19/4/1948Zionist terrorist gangs bombed a home in Tiberias, killing 14 of its residents.
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The Haifa Massacre - 22/4/1948Zionist night raiders attacked Haifa from Hadar Alkarmel and occupied homes,streets and public buildings killing 50 Arabs and wounding 200 others. The Arabswere surprised by the attack, so they took their women and children to the marinato move them to the city of Akka during which they were attacked by Zionists whokilling 100 civilians and wounded 200 others.
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The Ayn al-Zaytoun Massacre - 4/5/1948 Ayn al-Zaytoun is a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Safed, the popula-tion of which was 820. The Jewish writer, Netiva Ben-Yehuda writes in her book “Through the Binding Ropes” about the Ayn al-Zaytoun Massacre saying: “onMay 3
rd
or 4
th
, 1948, nearly 39 bound prisoners were shot.”
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The Safed Massacre - 13/5/1948The Haganah slaughtered about 70 young men from Safed, but there are nodetails about this massacre.
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The Abu Shusha Massacre - 14/5/1948Zionist raisers committed an ugly massacre in the village of Abu Shusha, killingabout 60 of its residents, including men, women, children and the elderly. Themassacre ended with the expulsion of all the residents of the village from their homes, which were then gradually demolished.
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The Beit Daras Massacre - 21/5/1948 A Zionist force supported by tanks surrounded the village of Beit Daras and
opened re on it. The people of the village realised the critical situation anddecided to endure the re and defend their homes at any cost, so they urged the
women, children and the elderly to leave the village to lessen their losses. Thewomen, children and the elderly headed towards the southern area of the village,
and once they reached the outskirts, were met with Zionist gunre, despite the
fact that they were defenceless. A large number of them were killed, and theforces burned down several homes and bombed others.
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The Al-Tantura Massacre - 22/5/1948This massacre was carried out by the third battalion of the Alexandroni Brigadeand the Zionist plan was to attack the village from two sides; the north and south.One brigade was to block the road, while a naval boat blocked the withdraw routeby sea. Every attacking unit was provided with a guide from the neighbouringZikhron Ya'akov settlement, whose residents knew their way around the village,and the brigade leadership kept a reserve unit for emergencies. Al-Tantura didnot initiate a battle with the Haganah, but refused their terms, so the attackerstook the men to the village graveyard, lined them up, and killed 200-250 of them.
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