Summary
A place named in the 1948 Intelligence Service (Arab Section) report as the target of an attack that figures twice in its account of the Tel-Hai district: Khiyam al-Walid’s participation in the attack on Lehavot is the stated cause of its evacuation on 29.3, and the attack, with “our harassment”, drives the evacuations of Hamra, Ghuraba and Muftakhira on 1.5 (The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948, PDF p.6, 13).
Details
- The report also lists the attack on Lehavot, with the Mishmar HaEmek and Gesher fronts, among the Jewish-Arab battles that automatically impacted the evacuation of nearby villages under the fear-of-reprisals factor, weighted at 1% of evacuated locales (PDF p.6).
- The Hamra and Ghuraba rows in the Tel-Hai evacuation table both carry the comment “Participated in attack on Lehavot” (The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948, PDF p.13).
Related pages
The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948, Mishmar HaEmek