Pembantaian Safsaf
33°0′40″N 35°26′46″E / 33.01111°N 35.44611°E Pembantaian Safsaf terjadi pada 29 Oktober 1948, ketika Pasukan Pertahanan Israel (IDF) merebut desa Arab Palestina di Safsaf, Galilea. Desa tersebut dipertahankan oleh Batalyon Yarmuk Kedua Tentara Pembebasan Arab.
Safsaf was the first village to fall in Operation Hiram, the aim of which, according to the IDF, was to "destroy the enemy in the central Galilee 'pocket,' to take control of the whole of the Galilee and to establish a defense line on the country's northern border."[1] The village was attacked by two platoons of armored cars and a tank company from the 7th Brigade, and a fierce battle lasted from the evening until seven o'clock the next morning.[2]
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Referensi
- Oral History interview with Mohammad Abdallah Edghaim
- Abu Ismail's eyewitness account
- Mohammad Abdallah Edghaim's eyewintess account
- Morris, Benny (1995). Falsifying the record: a fresh look at Zionist documentation of 1948, Journal of Palestine Studies, 24: 44–62.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00967-7.
- Morris, Benny (2008). 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press.
- Nazzal, Naffez (1978). The Palestinian Exodus from Galilee: 1947–1949. Inst. Pal. Studies.
- Zertal, Idith (2005). Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-85096-7.