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مجزرة الطنطورة
Date qualified22–23 May 1948
Tantura
On the night of 22–23 May 1948 Israeli forces took al-Tantura, one of the largest villages on the coast, and carried out a massacre there; by some estimates 230 people were killed. The survivors were driven out.
Linked context in the legacy record
On 22 May 1948 Israeli forces carried out a massacre in al-Tantura, which, with some 1,500 people, was one of the largest villages on the coast; by some estimates 230 people were killed.
Link to this chapterPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: The third stage of the ethnic cleansing campaign in Palestine began on 15 May 1948
Editorial paraphrase · enOn 22 May Israeli forces carried out a massacre in al-Tantura, a village of 1,500; by some estimates 230 were killed.
Link to this citationThe village, 24 kilometres from Haifa, was taken on the night of 22–23 May by the Haganah’s Thirty-Third Battalion, of the Alexandroni Brigade. Up to 1,200 survivors were expelled to nearby al-Furaydis, and by the summer most had been expelled from Israeli territory. Only a shrine, a fortress, an ancient well and a few houses remain; the site is now an Israeli recreation area.
Link to this chapterPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Village page text
Editorial paraphrase · enTaken on the night of 22–23 May 1948 by the Alexandroni Brigade’s Thirty-Third Battalion; up to 1,200 expelled to al-Furaydis; a few buildings remain.
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photograph · Wikimedia Commons
The photograph shown with this event: What remains of al-Tantura.
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Overview by Maher Charif, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The village’s page, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
Reference metadata and an original summary only. No permission to copy or host the source’s text, photographs, audio or video is asserted.
22–23 May 1948 · duration
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