Tantura Massacre
The Tantura massacre took place on the night of 22–23 May 1948 during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when around 40-200 Palestinian Arabs were massacred by the Israeli Defense Force's Alexandroni Brigade, following the surrender of Tantura, a village of roughly 1,500 people in 1945 located near Haifa. Event narratives Tantura was attacked and occupied by the 33rd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade on the night of 22-23 May 1948. Based on Tantura villager Marwan's testimony, historian Walid Khalidi referred to "the methodical shooting and burial in a communal grave of some forty young men in Tantura village" in a correspondence in ''The Spectator'' with Erskine Barton Childers, Jon Kimche, (published 12 May-4 August 1961, and republished in 1988 in the Journal of Palestine Studies). The testimony of the two Yahyas, described as "inevitably fragmented and narrow perspective of individual villagers caught in the vortex of events beyond their capacity to comprehend", was subse ...
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