Nakba: Remembering Nazi’s Holocaust of Palestinians at Tantura
Nakba: Remembering Israel’s Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura
MIDDLE EAST MONITOR
Nasim Ahmed
( Middle East Monitor ) – On this day in May 1948, up to 200 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli troops in the coastal village of Tantura, located 35 kilometres south of Haifa. It was one of the 64 Palestinian coastal villages on the road between Tel Aviv and Haifa, of which only two remain today, Furaydis and Jisr Al-Zarka. The rest were ethnically cleansed, as were hundreds of other villages, towns and cities elsewhere in occupied Palestine.
What: Tantura Massacre
When: 22-23 May 1948
Where: Palestine
What Happened?
A week after David Ben-Gurion, the executive head of the World Zionist Organisation, declared the establishment of the State of Israel, th...










