"Terror was needed to make the Arabs leave." What did the IDF really do in '48? Investigation
Adam Raz's investigative report based on newly declassified Israeli military and court documents, reveals systematic war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and massacres committed by the #Haganah / #IDF during the 1948 #Nakba. It also dismantles the myth of Palestinian "voluntary flight"
[...] The Golani battalion commander distributed a written order stating that every tenth man in a conquered village where foreigners are found should be shot, and all the men in a house where property stolen from Jews is found should be executed. In the case of Arab al-Zebach, a Bedouin community living in the Galilee, he instructed to leave no trace: "Every Arab from the Zabahim must be killed."
[...] "I conquered Beersheva. I ordered my men to wipe out anyone who showed up on the streets - resisting or not. Destroy everything. Once the town surrendered, the killing stopped. Until then, women, children, and everyone were killed. After that, people were told to head to Hebron. Those who refused were 'taken care of.'"
--- Israel Carmi, Battalion Commander, 7th Brigade
[...] "How do you clear out a village? You cut off one Arab's ear in front of everyone, and they all run. No village empties without stabbing one in the gut—or similar tactics. We only won because of the fear we put in the Arabs, and they only feared us because of the illegal shit we did."
--- Maxime Cohen, Commander of Carmeli Brigade
Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2026-02-26/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/0000019c-9039-d930-ad9f-f4fd6f060000 or https://archive.ph/Ac9Bk#selection-1548.1-2489.100
#Palestine #GazaGenocide #Nakba #EthnicCleansing #WarCrimes
