Summary
Kibbutz whose members, who had been living on the lands of Al-Jalama since 1951, blew up the village’s houses with the army’s help on 11 August 1953 to prevent a Supreme Court return order being carried out, in Manna’s account (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.191).
Details
- The members of kibbutz Lehavot Haviva came from Czechoslovakia and were members of the Zionist socialist Hashomer Hatzair (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.191).
- When the Supreme Court made its order for the return of al-Jalama’s plaintiffs to their village and lands final and permanent, the members of the kibbutz, living on the village’s lands since 1951, blew up al-Jalama’s houses with the help of the army on 11 August 1953, using force to prevent the carrying out of the court’s decision (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.190-191).
- Manna’s verdict, as printed, is that they conspired with the military authorities to steal the lands of the Palestinians, even in the rare case when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of others (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.191).