Category: Atrocity, from Wikidata’s classes “war crime”, “massacre”
Eilabun massacre
Part of: Operation Hiram, Nakba
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: war crime, massacre (all its classes: Wikidata item)
The Eilabun massacre was committed on 30 October 1948 by the Israel Defense Forces as part of the 1948 Palestine war. A total of 14 men from the Arab Christian village of Eilabun were killed, 12 of them executed by the Israeli forces after the village had surrendered. The remaining villagers were expelled to Lebanon, living as refugees for some months before being allowed to return in 1949 as part of an agreement between the state of Israel and Archbishop Maximos V Hakim.
It was one of the few Arab villages to which most of the displaced were eventually able to return. The massacre is the subject of the documentary film The Sons of Eilaboun by Hisham Zreiq.
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Eilabun massacre. (2026, September 1). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eilabun_massacre&oldid=1372522221
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“Eilabun massacre.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 Sept. 2026, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eilabun_massacre&oldid=1372522221.
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