Lydda massacre, 1948, 1948

8 weeks in.

The State of Israel carried this out 8 weeks after its own declaration.

Israeli troops killed some 250 people in Lydda on 12 July 1948, many in the Dahmash mosque. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (2004), citing the Palmach's own history

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