Operation חירם ḤIRAM advanced through the Upper גליל GALIL; massacres at صلحة SALIHA and عيلبون ʿEILABUN, and the expulsion from عيلبون ʿEILABUN, require distinct civilian records.

What happened in the villages?

Saliha preserves the October 30 massacre date and limits on the repeated 94 figure. Eilabun records murder and coerced departure, distinguishing overlapping 12, 14 and 15 death accounts. Safsaf retains a possible October 30 killing date after its earlier liberation. No combined daily total is defensible. 1 2 3

What can be said about Sasa?

PalQuest places the advance into سعسع SAʿSAʿ around noon on October 30 and transmits reports of civilian murders. The timing, victims and exact death count of each killing remain unresolved. This lesser-documented episode remains within the campaign and daily rundown rather than receiving a falsely precise murder total. 4 Morris’s correction of the Mapam speaker to משה ארם MOŜE EREM also matters when tracing accusations attributed to ישראל Galili YISRAʾEL. 5 This civil date was Shabbat Bereshit.

How is this dated?

This is Day 336 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-10-30. 6 Its public OTD route is the daytime Hebcal conversion כ״ז בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 27th 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709, without the after-sunset option. This recap distinguishes actions on the civil day from continuing episodes, reconstructed ranges and later reportage. Events after sunset belong to כ״ח בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 28th 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709; each focused study explains its own supported occurrence route.

Guided reflections

  • Why cannot the Eilabun counts simply be added?
  • Which part of the Sasa reconstruction needs a separate killing-date witness?

Footnotes

  1. https://www.palquest.org/ar/place/21941/صلحة Saliha massacre date. ↩
  2. https://www.palqura.com/ar/article/959/عَيْلَبُونْ Eilabun detailed account. ↩
  3. https://www.palquest.org/ar/militaryoperations/25292/عملية-حيرام Safsaf massacre assigned October 30. ↩
  4. https://www.palquest.org/ar/militaryoperations/25292/عملية-حيرام Sasa paragraph. ↩
  5. https://cursosextensao.usp.br/pluginfile.php/977243/mod_resource/content/1/Benny%20Morris_%20%E2%80%9CRevisiting%20the%20Palestinian%20Exodus%20of%201948%E2%80%9D%20in%20Avi%20Shlim%20et%20al_%20The%20War%20for%20Palestine%2C%20Cambridge%20University%20Press%2C%202001.pdf p. 59 note 24. ↩
  6. https://www.palqura.com/ar/article/959/عَيْلَبُونْ Detailed Eilabun account, morning October 30. ↩