Nascent Yemen

Fruit of Sa'adah

The Tantura Masscre

On the night of 22-23 May 1948, one week after the establishment of ‘the State of Israel’, the Palestinian fishing village of Tantura was attacked and occupied by the 33rd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade, later made part of the Israeli army. Within hours of occupying the village, Israeli forces and intelligence units conducted a systematic massacre of disarmed Palestinian fighters and civilians.

The expulsion of Tantura women, children, and the elderly from Furaydis to Jordan on June 13, 1948. Photo: Beno Rothenberg; Courtesy of the Israel State Archives

They made a documentary-style movie on the horror of this carnage.

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