Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War references on wikipedia
Killings_and_massacres_during_the_1948_Palestine_War Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and unarmed soldiers.Benny Morris writes that, after the war, Israel contrasted its "purity of arms" with the alleged barbarity of the Arab armies, which had engaged in the mutilation of corpses of Jewish prisoners of war.