Author: Audeh Rantisi and Charles Amash
Year: 2000
Volume: 33
Issue: 3
Issue Summary:
On July 12 [1948] Ramle and Lydda were occupied by Zionist forces and a curfew was imposed. At 11:30 a.m., many Lydda inhabitants, shut up in their houses, took fright at the sudden outbreak of shooting outside.… Some rushed into the streets, only to be cut down by Israeli fire…In the confusion, many unarmed detainees…