Tantura

Tantura (2022)

The tape-recorded words “erase it” take on new weight in the context of history and war. When the state of Israel was established in 1948, war broke out and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in its aftermath. Israelis know this as the War of Independence. Palestinians call it “Nakba” (the Catastrophe). In the late 1990s, graduate student Teddy Katz conducted research into a large-scale massacre that had allegedly occurred in the village of Tantura in 1948. His work later came under attack and his reputation was ruined, but 140 hours of audio testimonies remain. The Tantura Massacre and the Tantura Massacre About a month after the Deir Yassin massacre, and in continuation of the main Zionist goal of ethnic cleansing of the country, by force of arms and intimidation of the population in preparation for the displacement of the largest number of Palestinian citizens, came the Tantura Massacre. It had a profound impact on the Palestinians in the surrounding villages and actually paved the way for their displacement. The Tantura massacre differs from all previous massacres in Palestine, not only because of the size of the victims, but also because it was a crime committed by the Israeli army, one week after the announcement of the establishment of the Israeli state. The occupation army chose this particular village because of its location on the Mediterranean coast and the ease of attacking it, under the pretext that the village represented a threat to them. They accused its people of turning it into a port from which weapons were delivered to the Palestinians. Tantoura is a village that was located near Haifa. Its population was 1,470 in 1945. The massacre was carried out on the night between May 22 and 23, 1948, by the Alexandroni Brigade of the Israeli occupation army, during the 1948 war. Between 270 and 290 Palestinians were killed in the massacre. *If you want to read more about the Wikipedia encyclopedia