Summary
The senior officer who in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine supervised the intelligence officers’ operations in 1948 — interrogation, blacklisting and the other oppressive features of Palestinian life under the occupation — and later became the first person to head the Mossad and the Shabak.
Details
- The intelligence officers on the ground in 1948, who took part in some of the worst atrocities of the dispossession and had the final authority to decide which villages would be destroyed and who among the villagers would be executed, were supervised by Harel: “Their operations in 1948 were supervised by Issar Harel, later the first person to head the Mossad and the Shabak, Israel’s secret services.” (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.28-29)
- “A short bulky figure, Harel had the modest rank of colonel in 1948, but was nonetheless the most senior officer overseeing all the operations of interrogation, blacklisting and the other oppressive features of Palestinian life under the Israeli occupation.” (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.29)
Related pages
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Consultancy, Village Files, Ethnic Cleansing