Al-Kabri massacre

The Al-Kabri massacre occurred when the Israeli army attacked the Palestinian village of Al-Kabri on the night of May 20-21 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war. The attack was part of Operation Ben-Ami, itself a part of Plan Dalet. Orders were given to "attack with the aim of capturing, the villages of Kabri, Umm al Faraj and Al-Nahr, to kill the men [and] to destroy and set fire to the villages", orders which Meron Benvenisti states were "carried out to the letter".[1][2] At least seven people were killed.[3] The attack was committed partially as revenge for the March 27 Yehiam convoy ambush.[1]

  1. ^ a b Benvenisti, 2000, pp. 138-139
  2. ^ Morris, 2004, pp. 253, 347
  3. ^ Jawad, S.A. (2007). Zionist Massacres: the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem in the 1948 War