Arab al-Mawasi massacre

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. [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] . In retaliation, the Arabs' dwellings were destroyed and 15 or 16 adult males were shot, 14 of them were killed. Unusually, the Arab oral history and the IDF archives agree on the number of dead.

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*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 10961949\65). ISBN 0-521-79476-5
*Kalidi, Walid (ed.) (1992), "All That Remains". Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992. ISBN 0-88728-224-5

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