Retribution
See also: al-Kabri incidentDuring Second phase of Operation Ben Ami the Arab siege of Yehiam was lifted and the first retaliatory attack was carried out against al-Kabri, Umm al-Faraj and al-Nahr, where the commander gave to order:-
“To attack with the aim of capturing the villages of al-Kabri, Umm al-Faraj and al-Nahr, to kill the men to destroy and set fire to the villages.”
The order was carried out.
During Mivtza Dekel the 7th Brigade and 21st battalion of the Carmeli carried out an attack on Kuweikat on 9 July 1948 believing that some of the inhabitants had taken part in the attack on the Yehiam convoy the barrage was particularly heavy. The handful of Kuweikat villages (mostly elderly) who had stayed put when the village fell were subsequently expelled to the neighbouring Druze village of Abu Sinan. The Druze village refused to give most of the Kuweikat villages shelter. Subsequently the Kuweikat villages moved to Upper Galilee and Lebanon.
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Famous quotes containing the word retribution:
“You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.”
—William, Lord Shawcross (b. 1902)