Summary
Shi’a village in southern Lebanon, across the border from the Galilee, where Israeli forces occupying the area during Operation Hiram murdered ninety-four people, including thirty-four prisoners blown up in the house in which they were detained, in Manna’s account — one of the worst massacres of the Nakba year (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.101).
Details
- Manna names Hula among the border villages — Safsaf, Saliha, Jish, Hula and Sa’sa’ — in which the Israeli army carried out killings including massacres, pillage and rape on the day of occupation or shortly after, in villages that had put up no resistance (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.98).
- After the occupation of Hula, ninety-four people were murdered, including thirty-four prisoners blown up in the house in which they were being detained (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.101).
- Dov Yermiyahu, Deputy Battalion Commander in the Carmeli Brigade during Operation Hiram, insisted that First Lieutenant Shmuel Lahis, who was under his command and responsible for the incident, be put on trial; Lahis was tried and convicted, but did not spend one day of his short sentence in jail (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.101).
- Pappe counts Hula among the villages captured in southern Lebanon in which executions took place: on 31 October 1948 more than eighty villagers were executed in Hula alone (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.226).
Where sources disagree
- The toll as printed differs: Manna gives ninety-four murdered, including the thirty-four prisoners blown up; Pappe gives more than eighty executed. Both figures are kept as printed.
Related pages
Nakba and Survival, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Saliha, Safsaf, Operation Hiram